Well it ended up being the Cache on the Perc Controller, which is actually on the PCI Daughter Card on the left side of the server. That and a replacement of the motherboard, and swamp of processor, and playing around with the SCSI cables port A and B, and the drives, we finally had to force the drives online, then re-enable the NIC's. Finally get the server online,
Now I am just waiting on the chkdsk of all the logical luns to be completed so I can get the server back up and running accordingly. Its going to take a good while with the corruption that was found... And that was only the c:\ drive... Joy Joy... Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:[email protected] Cell:401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell 2850 Need assistance On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems like one of the last POS Dell boxes in my Datacenter has gone belly > up, the servicing vendor has brought down another box and we switched the > drives over, when we booted it it claimed to read the configuration we was > going to loose data? Does this mean the Perc 4e/Di is hosed, and I just lost > my OS? I'll second the suggestion of calling Dell support. It's "free", and better to have expert hand-holding in a case like this. That said: The PERC RAID controllers stores a copy of the configuration in NVRAM and on disk. When you put a disk set on a new controller, you have to choose which configuration to use. That configuration will be used, overwriting all other configuration storage locations. Make sure you choose the configuration-on-disk, and that will overwrite the NVRAM. *That* said: I've been lucky enough that it's been several years since I've had to move a disk set between servers/controllers, so don't take my word for it, either. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
