gibberish at f10

[Vishu Gupta]

This is a Proliant 6000, I can't boot. It detects the Compaq 2DH Array Controller but I'm getting 1779 Slot 4 Drive Array Drive Failure on scsi port 1, scsi id 1...no scsi devices detected. When I press the F10 key to see system partitions, I get gibberish (this happened after I replaced the drive with the amber light). My question is, is this a drive failure or a array controller failure--any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Vishu

[Terry Hutchings]

What kind of an array do you have configured (eg. raid 0, raid 5, etc)?

[Vishu Gupta]

I don't know, I inherited this machine and I can't find out because it won't let me use F10 because of the gibberish--is there another way to find out what kind of array is configured?

[Terry Hutchings]

Do you have a Smart Start CD you could boot off of?

The error you're getting and what happens when you press F10, would indicate to me this was configured in some kind of NON fault tolerant array.

[Vishu Gupta]

Yes, I have a Smart Start CD, which I will boot from, what do you suggest?

[Vishu Gupta]

I booted off the SMartCD and ran the array config utility. I'm getting this error which presume its a hardware failure:

"smart 2dh controller in slot 4 cannot be configured by this program"

possible cause hardware failure.

[Terry Hutchings]

I would recommend booting off the Smart Start CD and select the option to run the Array Configuration Utility to verify the configuration.

[Ian Matthews_2]

you could try array diagnostics utility from compaq's website