Unfortunately server is not under service, so I thought I would post to see if there are any thoughts or suggestions.
The question in short:
Is it possible to convince/force an SA6400 to attempt to boot using RAID set members that it thinks are bad?
Server: DL380 G3
Cntrl: SA6400
Phys. Drives: 6x146GB
Logical Drvs: 5-drive RAID5 (ID 0-4),
1 hot spare (ID 5)
It appears that drive ID 3 failed and caused some error on the SCSI bus that confused the controller or corrupted info on some of the other drives.
Server was running fine until reboot attempt following qtly MS patch installation. No system errors ever observed on drive array. The server never came back up after Windows restart. I was not physically watching the box during the reboot, so it's unknown what, if any, errors displayed during shutdown & initial reboot attempt.
After reboot, the lone logical drive status was failed. In fact, with all drives connected, the SA6400 showed 0 logical drives available. With the apparently failed drive ID 3 removed, the SA6400 showed the other drives as present -- ID 2 was labeled OK, but 0,1,& 4 requiring replacement.
We've already restored the data to another box but thought this might be a valuable learning experience.
Regards
The question in short:
Is it possible to convince/force an SA6400 to attempt to boot using RAID set members that it thinks are bad?
Server: DL380 G3
Cntrl: SA6400
Phys. Drives: 6x146GB
Logical Drvs: 5-drive RAID5 (ID 0-4),
1 hot spare (ID 5)
It appears that drive ID 3 failed and caused some error on the SCSI bus that confused the controller or corrupted info on some of the other drives.
Server was running fine until reboot attempt following qtly MS patch installation. No system errors ever observed on drive array. The server never came back up after Windows restart. I was not physically watching the box during the reboot, so it's unknown what, if any, errors displayed during shutdown & initial reboot attempt.
After reboot, the lone logical drive status was failed. In fact, with all drives connected, the SA6400 showed 0 logical drives available. With the apparently failed drive ID 3 removed, the SA6400 showed the other drives as present -- ID 2 was labeled OK, but 0,1,& 4 requiring replacement.
We've already restored the data to another box but thought this might be a valuable learning experience.
Regards