1999 HP NetServer LX

[VAMary]

I have two HP servers that were in strict basic care mode for the last 3-4 years. I did not set these up and no "initial configuration" information can be found. Each server was configured withe RAID 5, but are not identical.

And now, the castastrophic event has occurred. The Main server's Power Supplies took a hard power spike and the server is dead. Tha backup server has lost 2 of the hard drives and thus will not boot either.

I removed the hard drives from the Main server and moved them into the backup server's chassis. It has been years since I have worked in the HP SCSI configuration utility, and I cannot remember all the ins and outs. I believe I need to tell the Backup Server about the new drives and the logical drives, I think it still has the original information from it's original configuration. Do I need to "reconfigure"? If so, will I lose all the data striped across the drives.

Or is there a specific manual, help tool I can use to re-educate myself?

Thanks so much for your time.

Mary

[e4services]

Sure there is a manual. NetRAID Configuration and a NetRAID Express Tools (BIOS Utility).
But if I get your situation as it stands, You are removing the drives from the Dead server and moving them to the one with dead drives. First you should , thru the , View the configuration on the dead server and note the location and order of the drives in the bays. Remove the drives, thru the of the other server clear the old configuration. Then shut down and insert the drives from the dead server in the slots they were in on the dead server. The RAID controller should read the configuration from the drives and ask to apply it. If not you may have to enter the and manually configure the way the dead server was, making the drive set, A0 for example and the esc out. DO NOT Initialize the new logical drive, this is a foramt of the logical drive you just created, you would erase everything. Just simply back out not without Initializing, saying NO to the prompts that the new drive has not been and restart the server.

[e4services]

Here is a link to all the manuals:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual〈=en&cc=us&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=50440

Though I do not see the NetRAID Express Tools manual there, it is what we send out with our drives, alone with a specific installation manual for the Netserver series. There also is a NetRAID Series User Guide, but a lot of that deals with the Windows based management software.

[VAMary]

Thanks so much for the information - the main problem is that I cannot get the dead server to power up at all for me to get to the CTRL-M utility.

[e4services]

Ahhh. That is right.
You could try swapping power supplies around. If that does not work then removing the CPUs, a bad CPU or memory could cause the none start issue.

Anyway, you could clear the working unit's configuration and insert the dead server's disks in the same slots they were in the dead server. By design the NetRAID configuration should be read from the disks and you should be asked if you wish to use this configuration of the one stored on the servers card. Just choose to use the drives configuration and you should be good.