Christmas Shopping...

[Paddy]

you what biatch

There are a few conflicts since i've got my server up.

should be fixed now

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by Wombat
With Windows 2000, you can do software RAID 1. I think they removed that in XP, no idea what 2003 is like.

I think this can only be done with two of the exact same hard drives. The server at work gave me this options whenb I first set it up nut never on any other machine work, home, or otherwise.

[Paddy]

I've got two 9.1 GB drives in a raid 1 array - boot / OS
three 18.2GB drives in RAID 5
one 9.1GB on its own... - i'll replace this with another 18.2

[ayoub_ibrahim]

come on Paddy it's Christmas day so relax!

[Paddy]

too full to move....

[Paddy]

right.. after much playing with the BIOS, I've installed 2003 server. I had to do it twice, as it installed thw wrong HAL first time. Now using MPS MultiCPU. I can't see the processors in Dev. Mgr, but dxdiag shows both xeons.

Task manager shows me two CPU graphs! Nice

Right... I've bought a Rack which should be delivered by the end of the week... It's a good job i didn't do the wireing as now I can adjust my plans to compensate

I've thrown in a Soundbalster Live! 5.1 and a PCI to USB adaptor My last slot will be reserved for a ATA RAID controller (in the future)...

Now i need to setup IIS and stop bying stuff from ebay

[Paddy]

Oh! Anyone know where i can get one of those keboards with a trackball on - I can put it in the try on my rack

[agallag]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56092&item=5740818660&rd=1

It's a spanish keyboard, but that's basically what you should be searching for...

[Paddy]

that's it - althoug pricey

I bought me a rack last night... now to get it past the wife...

[Fat Tone]

Most women don't like you showing an interest in another rack...

[Paddy]

groan

[Paddy]

as I've already eluded, my network connection is painfully slow. ~3Mbps...

I sent my archive to the server last night before i went to bed, and in the morning i got a message saying 'can't save $MFT due to an IO error. Data has been lost. Re-transfer the file'.

So.. is this a disk error, or a network problem, or potentially both?
Is there a compaq disk utility that anyone knows of, or can i use IBMs DFT/seatools?

[Paddy]

hmm.. the plot thickens.... when i turned my server on today (this would be the first boot after the above error) I get this:

Slot 3 Compaq Smart Array 4200 Controller (rev A, v1.46) 3 logical drives

1797-slot 3 Drive Array - Array Accelerator Read Error Occured, Array Acelerator is disabled.
1799-Slot 3 Drive Array - Drives disabled due to Array Accelerator Data Loss

Select F1 to continue with logical drives disabled
Select F2 to accept data loss and to re-enable logical drives

Any thoughts?

[agallag]

This is about a different array controller, but it may help:

http://h18020.www1.hp.com/support/techpubs/customer_advisories/EX010306_CW01_0.html

[agallag]

Your array controller has onboard RAM that caches reads and writes from the disks to improve performance. In order to prevent the loss of data in RAM that hasn't yet been written to disk, the RAM has a battery backup. If power is lost due to bad batteries (or the problem referenced in my link above) then the data in RAM is lost forever, likely corrupting the RAID.

If you manage to get the server running again, check the event viewer for errors related to the battery backup.