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-----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:10:47 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: RAID Degraded Do you have a box you can stick vSphere on and do a P2V? Might be the quickest solution. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 July 2012 08:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RAID Degraded Its a whitebox server model HUD with an Intel server board STL2. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Virgin Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Webster <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:14:15 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: RAID Degraded What brand and model server. Some drives will have an amber light showing them as degraded. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: RAID Degraded > > Hi all > I had the RAID 5 on the server that has my exchange 2003 server go > down this afternoon. It was 3 scsi 320 drives on an adaptec 2200 raid > card with 64MB of RAM on the card.Yes its that old. We were prepping > for migration to exchange 2010 in august, next month. I love how things work > out. > Anyway when I boot using the adaptec cd, it says the RAID is degraded. > If I boot, I cannot pick up the raid. For the life of me I cannot > find which drives are faulty. Under properties it shows all 3 drives > as operational with no SMART errors. My supplier can get me the same > model drive in two days but if I can't find which drives are faulty, > should I spend the money trying to rebuild the array as this server is > end of life anyway. How do I find out which drives are faulty because > when I use the boot time configuration utility, it doesn't pick up the > raid 5 array although it picks up the drives when I do a disk scan. > When I try to create another àrray on the same disks, config utility > says the disks are full of array info and another one cannot be > created. The only other option is to initialize but this would wipe all the > info from the drives. > We do have nightly full backups but my reticence is that we will lose > all today's changes if we restore to new hardware. > Is there anyway who can help me with the adaptec raid controller and > get my raid 5 back online. Any tools out there? Or is it easier to > restore to new hardware and forget about today. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
