I came across something sort-of similar recently when resilience testing a new ESXi host.
Both PSUs had green lights, but when the engineer pulled the first power cable the server died. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On 28 Jun 2011 23:55, "Charlie Kaiser" <charl...@golden-eagle.org> wrote: > Are you 100% certain it's not just a power supply failure? I've seen over a > dozen PS failures just like this... > > *********************** > Charlie Kaiser > charl...@golden-eagle.org > Kingman, AZ > *********************** > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:01 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: recovering dead server hard drives >> >> One of my customers referred someone to me who had trouble with a server. >> >> >> >> He explained that the office lost power and when power was restored > everything can back >> up but the office couldn't connect to the server. After a few quick > questions went to the >> office and the server looked and sounded like it was on but no video. > Server was under the >> counter with screens on the doors. Area was warm when I opened it. Not > good I'm >> thinking. Tried another monitor, same no video. Opened case and saw > neither the case fan >> or the CPU fan spinning. Held in power switch to shut down. >> >> >> >> It looks like the motherboard is dead. Press power button and power supply > fan starts, >> lights come on but nothing else. No beeps and no video. >> >> >> >> Thoughts on trying to recover the data. I can put the drives into another > system but if I >> remember correctly software RAID writes to the hard drive and the Windows > software >> doesn't recognize them. So it asks you to initialize them. Does that > change anything on >> the hard drive? I'm trying to see if I can get to the data before the last > resort is to a >> hard drive recovery place. >> >> >> >> Additional information. >> >> Of course he has no documentation on info on the server. Asked if he had a > backup and >> said it was on the server. I see no external drives or tape device. Really > not good I'm >> thinking now. And of course he says all his stuff is on the server. Great! > No backup all his >> office files are on the server. >> >> >> >> I ask if he knows if the drives are mirrored or using some form of RAID. > No idea. Server >> has 4 SATA drives. One is 80GB which I think is the Windows system drive > and three >> 250GB which are unknown. The sever has a Super Micro motherboard (out of > warranty) >> and I think is setup with software RAID. But I don't know if it might be 1 > or 5 or what. >> Server is a few years old, original guy not around anymore, and so on. >> >> >> >> I have another server I could try and use the drives on but will have to > do a repair >> because of the hardware change. Original server single socket P4, my > server dual socket >> Xeon, both populated. I certainly don't want to destroy the data so am > planning my next >> move. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Art >> >> >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
