Are you sure someone was not using a software RAID instead of the hardware
RAID?  I would look for that to verify you have not gotten to that mess.

Jon

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:26 AM, David Elebute <
[email protected]> wrote:

> we have the following scenario:
>
> inherited whitbox server, intel motherboard, adaptec 29160N scsi
> controller, 2 Seagate Cheetah 36GB drives.
> one hard drive failed giving a medium error when booting and the scsi
> controller gives this message upon post.
> we ordered and received a fujitsu 36GB map3367np HDD, changed the pinout in
> order to make it scsi id 1, current drive is scsi id 0; well when we do this
> the current good drive gives us the medium error message and is not seen by
> the OS (Windows 2003 std); we have tried all sorts of different combinations
> but cannot get the scsi controller to see the original Seagate drive as ID
> 0, and the Fujitsu drive as ID 1 simultaneously, we have tried changing the
> cable to no avail as this causes the same scenario as above. the only thing
> i have not tried is replacing scsi controller (no adaptec 29160N laying
> around).
>
> Any help in getting this resoled would be greatly appreciated.
>
> David Elebute
>
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