What a crappy night!
I installed my ATA RAID card into my ProLiant 6500 in order to create a 1TB data RAID 5 array. The server was running a two disk software RAID 1 array for the OS, and a single drive for backup and my webserver.
The server was working before i touched it!
I installed the ATA RAID card and rebooted. The server reported a non-system disk error.
Bugger. I turned out that one of my SCSI disks in the RAID 1 array had died. It must have killed the software RAID, because when the machine rebooted it couldn't find the MBR.
I replaced the faulty drive and removed all the others, then installed a new copy of server 2003. I always do this to ensure that windows doesn't do something stupid like install onto D:
The installation was and is fine. I reconnected the ATA array and got the same MBR fault. Bugger.
It seems that the ATA RAID card is trying to boot. Fine. I disabled that in the BIOS.
The ATA card has an IRQ of 5, which i cant change, and the SCSI has a higher one as it is detected second.
I entered the server BIOS (smartstart) and told it to boot from the SCSI array.
MBR error.
I took the power away from the ATA drives, rebooted and got into a OS.
I reconencted the power and ran my software ATA RAID util which detected the drives but insisted on a reboot before they could be used. £$%"%$$
Crap.
I need to somehow force the server to boot from the SCSI array and not the ATA one.
What seems like a simple problem has taken hours and hours to get this far.
Any thoughts? Anyone want a server???
I installed my ATA RAID card into my ProLiant 6500 in order to create a 1TB data RAID 5 array. The server was running a two disk software RAID 1 array for the OS, and a single drive for backup and my webserver.
The server was working before i touched it!
I installed the ATA RAID card and rebooted. The server reported a non-system disk error.
Bugger. I turned out that one of my SCSI disks in the RAID 1 array had died. It must have killed the software RAID, because when the machine rebooted it couldn't find the MBR.
I replaced the faulty drive and removed all the others, then installed a new copy of server 2003. I always do this to ensure that windows doesn't do something stupid like install onto D:
The installation was and is fine. I reconnected the ATA array and got the same MBR fault. Bugger.
It seems that the ATA RAID card is trying to boot. Fine. I disabled that in the BIOS.
The ATA card has an IRQ of 5, which i cant change, and the SCSI has a higher one as it is detected second.
I entered the server BIOS (smartstart) and told it to boot from the SCSI array.
MBR error.
I took the power away from the ATA drives, rebooted and got into a OS.
I reconencted the power and ran my software ATA RAID util which detected the drives but insisted on a reboot before they could be used. £$%"%$$
Crap.
I need to somehow force the server to boot from the SCSI array and not the ATA one.
What seems like a simple problem has taken hours and hours to get this far.
Any thoughts? Anyone want a server???
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