https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/netraid-array-will-not-boot-after-rebuild/m-p/3628651#M17698 I am running a D4942 Netraid3 card booting freebsd 5.4. The setup is running 4 9.1 GB drives, three of which are in raid5 and one set as a hot spare which is set to automatically rebuild. I understand that this card is not supported with this OS, but if anyone can answer my questions that pertain to the hardware that would be a great help.<BR /><BR />The scenario goes like this. The system is running with the above setup and I am booted into the OS. I failed a drive at the login prompt and i can see the other drive(hotspare) drive light go on. This tells me that it is rebuilding. The only problem is that I cannot actually log in at this point. If I enter user/pass, it just keeps giving me another loginprompt. This is perplexing to me since I thought that I would be able to use a RAID5 array in degraded mode, so I did another test. Again, I have the same setup running on the 3 disk Raid5 plus one hot spare and I shutdown the system and unplug a drive from the raid5 volume and boot the system. The card starts beeping and tells me to press a key not allowing the OS to boot. I press a key, taking me into the config utility(also ctrl+m). The drive is being rebuilt with the hot spare. When the rebuild is done and it is back to optimimum, I reboot the box. The box boots, card firmware loads and just when the OS starts to load(FreeBSD cursor starts spinning), the box reboots itself. This will happen forever until stopped. <BR /><BR />Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong, if anything or is this card bad? Any help would be greatly appreciated.<BR /><BR />thanks,<BR />Bob Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:10:00 GMT Bob Ababurko 2005-09-18T15:10:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/netraid-array-will-not-boot-after-rebuild/m-p/3628651#M17698 I am running a D4942 Netraid3 card booting freebsd 5.4. The setup is running 4 9.1 GB drives, three of which are in raid5 and one set as a hot spare which is set to automatically rebuild. I understand that this card is not supported with this OS, but if anyone can answer my questions that pertain to the hardware that would be a great help.<BR /><BR />The scenario goes like this. The system is running with the above setup and I am booted into the OS. I failed a drive at the login prompt and i can see the other drive(hotspare) drive light go on. This tells me that it is rebuilding. The only problem is that I cannot actually log in at this point. If I enter user/pass, it just keeps giving me another loginprompt. This is perplexing to me since I thought that I would be able to use a RAID5 array in degraded mode, so I did another test. Again, I have the same setup running on the 3 disk Raid5 plus one hot spare and I shutdown the system and unplug a drive from the raid5 volume and boot the system. The card starts beeping and tells me to press a key not allowing the OS to boot. I press a key, taking me into the config utility(also ctrl+m). The drive is being rebuilt with the hot spare. When the rebuild is done and it is back to optimimum, I reboot the box. The box boots, card firmware loads and just when the OS starts to load(FreeBSD cursor starts spinning), the box reboots itself. This will happen forever until stopped. <BR /><BR />Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong, if anything or is this card bad? Any help would be greatly appreciated.<BR /><BR />thanks,<BR />Bob Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:10:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/netraid-array-will-not-boot-after-rebuild/m-p/3628651#M17698 Bob Ababurko 2005-09-18T15:10:00Z