Thanks for the responses but after speaking with the client I've come to find that the server, which was sitting in his basement this past week, was damage beyond repair during the floods here in GA. So he now has to start from scratch as everything was lost.
Thanks again. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM, MarvinC <marv...@gmail.com> wrote: > A small organization has this very old Gateway server running W2K3 > server which has 6 drives configured in the following manner: > > 1. First two 18gb drives are mirrored RAID 1 with the OS. > 2. There's a Simple 36gb drive. > 3. Remaining three (3) 36gb drives are configured as RAID 5 and contain > files that have NOT been backed up. > > Sooooooo! For some reason the server errors and show the drives as Failed > when attempting to boot from the SCSI controller card. If I add another card > from an identical server, it also fails. If I change the cable I get a > different error. If I take the drives and add them into the other, > identical, server, I get NVRAM mismatch errors on Post followed by a BSOD. > So I take the cable and plug it into the onboard SCSI connector. The > servers boots into the OS, sees the drives but lists them as Failed and > Foriegn. IN other words Disk Management shows the following: > > Disk 0: Healthy > Disk 1 - 5: Foriegn. > > Under that I also see that each of the disks in the RAID 5 are Offline and > Failed. When I attempt to Reactivate Volume or Import either of the Foreign > disks I get the following error in the System Log: > > Source: LDM > Event ID: 2 > > Description: > INTERNAL Error - The specified plex contains disabled subdisks (C1000078). > > My gut tells me the system's hosed and that all data on the dynamic drives > is lost I wanted to check here to see if there are any tricks I can perform > to reactivating the drives. > > Any responses appreciated. > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
