Hello, cheers for looking, hope you can help.
I run this Compaq ProLiant 1600 server:
- 2x Intel Pentium III 550mhz (Katmai, 512kb each)
- 512mb SDRAM (PC100/133)
- 4x 9.1gb ULTRA-2 SCSI 10k RPM
I'm having some major issues with the RAID array and the hard disks.
My server had been on for about a week (24/7). I woke up in the morning to find it had BSOD'd. Pretty unusual, as it's usually so well behaved, but it is Windows so it's bound to happen every so often, nothing you can do.
Anyway, I restarted the server and the drives started spinning up. Except this time, 2 of the drives presented errors. I should point out at this stage that Drive 4 has had a 'drive failure' light on for about 3 months, and still worked perfectly well (passed disk tests). Now drives 2+4 weren't spinning up and drive 2 had no lights on at all.
I switched around the caddies, tried changing the order of drives etc... but to no avail. (I restored it to it's original order btw.)
I went into Windows setup and, while it recognised both logical drives on the RAID array (there's one of about 4gb for Windows and one of about 30gb for backup - it's a 'Vital files' backup server for my network.) However, it said it couldn't access either of them.
So I thought I might just take out the two drives presenting failures and try the two remaining good ones in a smaller array. However, when I did that, drive 1 presented a failure light. Now I have 2 drives presenting failure lights, one drive presenting nothing at all, and 1 drive that still works.
What do I do next?
I run this Compaq ProLiant 1600 server:
- 2x Intel Pentium III 550mhz (Katmai, 512kb each)
- 512mb SDRAM (PC100/133)
- 4x 9.1gb ULTRA-2 SCSI 10k RPM
I'm having some major issues with the RAID array and the hard disks.
My server had been on for about a week (24/7). I woke up in the morning to find it had BSOD'd. Pretty unusual, as it's usually so well behaved, but it is Windows so it's bound to happen every so often, nothing you can do.
Anyway, I restarted the server and the drives started spinning up. Except this time, 2 of the drives presented errors. I should point out at this stage that Drive 4 has had a 'drive failure' light on for about 3 months, and still worked perfectly well (passed disk tests). Now drives 2+4 weren't spinning up and drive 2 had no lights on at all.
I switched around the caddies, tried changing the order of drives etc... but to no avail. (I restored it to it's original order btw.)
I went into Windows setup and, while it recognised both logical drives on the RAID array (there's one of about 4gb for Windows and one of about 30gb for backup - it's a 'Vital files' backup server for my network.) However, it said it couldn't access either of them.
So I thought I might just take out the two drives presenting failures and try the two remaining good ones in a smaller array. However, when I did that, drive 1 presented a failure light. Now I have 2 drives presenting failure lights, one drive presenting nothing at all, and 1 drive that still works.
What do I do next?