Thane,
Yes, I do plan to use my Bart's CD a bit later. I did one check last night
b4 bed by booting into the low level bios for the A7499 chip of the RAID
card -<ctrl>A - during the server post. This got me to the low-speed side
of the card, but it is here that I can view/scan both of the card's
channels- A and B. The B channel holds the card's controller, a CDROM, and
my dds tape unit. This is correct and expected.
Sadly, when I scanned the A channel (U160) all I saw was the RAID Card's
controller. None of the 3 installed and running hds answered the
scan. Odd. This I have never seen before in scsi-land.
This leads me to posit a bad Channel A cable, the RAID cage (SCA80)
interface board, or, the RAID controller card as possible suspects. The
hard drives do actually spin up, so I conclude that +12v is working after a
fashion. I will check +5v today and carefully inspect the cable, cage and
RAID card. No, I have ruled out the server psu either!
If nothing shows up, then I will proceed to drive the Bart's CD. This is a
weird one for me. Thank you for the shout.
Duncan
At 10:29 09/28/2008 -0300, you wrote:
At 07:34 PM 27/09/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
No. I do NOT know that I have 2 failed drives. That was my posit at this
point.
Certainly, if I do have 2/3 dead, I would expect to be dead in the water
completely.
Kiss my last install and all my data goodbye!
Am I close?
I'd boot up with a recovery CD (like Bart's) and then take a look at the
drives from there. You may run into RAID compatibility issues, however.
T
