topic Re: Netserver E60 RAID 5 in Netservers

Netserver E60 RAID 5

Mark Sorrell — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:29:43 GMT

I have the above machine with RAID 5. One drive failed, and failed and failed. After 3 rebuilds, successful, I decided to get a new drive, the exact same drive, and pop in pulling the old one out and did a rebuild. Everything went fine until boot, and it flashed "No Operating System Found". What did I miss? Tell me I didn't lose the good data on the other two drives?? PLEASE!!!

Re: Netserver E60 RAID 5

JohnWRuffo — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 17:51:55 GMT

If the rebuild did not finish prior to the re-boot it should have just failed the rebuild process... not the array. It is possible that the drive caused corruption.
You need to use the NetRAID Utils from your CD to see if the configuration is still there on the disks.

Re: Netserver E60 RAID 5

Oscar Gil — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:41:42 GMT

Have you tried to boot the system without the new drive?

Re: Netserver E60 RAID 5

D.K. — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:17:36 GMT

Mark,

Definitely try to remove the new drive in there now and reboot.
Any change?
Are there any messages on POST?Particularily, any relating to the Netraid card.

Which card do you have and which firmware is it running?
Which OS are you running?

Boot to a DOS disk and run fdisk. If you cannot see any partitions then your OS is gone or not accessible in the configuration you are running ( it should still see NTFS partitions although it will label them as "unknown").
Try to clear the CMOS.
If you can see something and you are running a Windows system, try to run a repair install using your ERD disk.

D.K.