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Cyric
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:08 am Post subject:
Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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Let me give you some quick history.
I obtained a Netfinity 5600 from work, and all of the drives had been
wiped of confidential data, but not formated. I am quite new at
server equiptment, but figured since I don't care about the data, I
could fiddle to my hearts content.
I was quite mistaken.
The 6 drives were in Defunct, offline, and ready states when I first
started messing with it. I went into ServeRAID manager and Saw
something like one whole HDD, one Half HDD and red X's on the rest.
Well, there was an option to "remove" the drives, so I clicked
"remove" on all of them, the icons went away, and I pulled them out.
I put them back in, and at that point it will only scan for Ready
drives. I then went through, setting BIOS's to defaults and what
not. Now this is where I think I really screwed up, I saved the Hard
Drive configuration to the controler.
Now the adaptec controller sees no drives, just _ _ _.
What I suspect that I did was tell the drives that there is no RAID
info on them with ServeRAID manager, and then tell the controller
this is the case also so it doesn't even check for them.
I feel that if I could format the disks, they would show up as "new"
RDY disks, but since the controller won't pick them up in their
current state, I can't get to them to Format.
Are any of my assumptions right? Is there anything I can do to fix
this? Did I just trash Six SCSI drives? :shock:
Thanks...B |
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Ron Reaugh
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:56 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:415f26f8$1_2@alt.athenanews.com...
| Quote: | Let me give you some quick history.
I obtained a Netfinity 5600 from work, and all of the drives had been
wiped of confidential data, but not formated. I am quite new at
server equiptment, but figured since I don't care about the data, I
could fiddle to my hearts content.
I was quite mistaken.
The 6 drives were in Defunct, offline, and ready states when I first
started messing with it. I went into ServeRAID manager and Saw
something like one whole HDD, one Half HDD and red X's on the rest.
Well, there was an option to "remove" the drives, so I clicked
"remove" on all of them, the icons went away, and I pulled them out.
I put them back in, and at that point it will only scan for Ready
drives.
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NO! Setup a RAID array first and then do the format.
| Quote: | I then went through, setting BIOS's to defaults and what
not. Now this is where I think I really screwed up, I saved the Hard
Drive configuration to the controler.
Now the adaptec controller sees no drives, just _ _ _.
What I suspect that I did was tell the drives that there is no RAID
info on them with ServeRAID manager, and then tell the controller
this is the case also so it doesn't even check for them.
I feel that if I could format the disks, they would show up as "new"
RDY disks,
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NO!
| Quote: | but since the controller won't pick them up in their
current state, I can't get to them to Format.
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Set the RAID controller to recognize the raw drives. Format is irrelevant
until the RAID array is configured.
| Quote: | Are any of my assumptions right? Is there anything I can do to fix
this? Did I just trash Six SCSI drives? :shock:
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Likely you changed some settings to make the drives appear
offline/unavailable. Because of your apparent lack of understanding of how
this all works, you probably answered some questions or made some settings
backwards. Go back through it all and reverse/correct your thinking. |
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Cyric
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:09 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
NO! Setup a RAID array first and then do the format.
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This seems to be the crux of my situation.
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Set the RAID controller to recognize the raw drives. Format is
irrelevant
until the RAID array is configured.
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How would I go about doing that? I haven't seen the term "raw drive"
in any setup menu.
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Likely you changed some settings to make the drives appear
offline/unavailable. Because of your apparent lack of understanding
of how
this all works, you probably answered some questions or made some
settings
backwards. Go back through it all and reverse/correct your
thinking. |
I've tried reversing what I have done with no success. How do I set
up an array when both ServeRAID mini configurer and ServeRAID Manager
don't see any physical or logical drives. ServeRAID Manger has all
of the "create" functions grayed out and shows no drives. Everything
I read about setting up an array assumes that you are using a new
Ready drive.
I know my lack of understanding is painfull, but I'm trying to learn.
I'm sure there is much for me to learn, that is why I am doing this.
Thanks again...B |
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Ron Reaugh
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
NO! Setup a RAID array first and then do the format.
This seems to be the crux of my situation.
Set the RAID controller to recognize the raw drives. Format is
irrelevant
until the RAID array is configured.
How would I go about doing that? I haven't seen the term "raw drive"
in any setup menu.
Likely you changed some settings to make the drives appear
offline/unavailable. Because of your apparent lack of understanding
of how
this all works, you probably answered some questions or made some
settings
backwards. Go back through it all and reverse/correct your
thinking.
I've tried reversing what I have done with no success. How do I set
up an array when both ServeRAID mini configurer and ServeRAID Manager
don't see any physical or logical drives. ServeRAID Manger has all
of the "create" functions grayed out and shows no drives. Everything
I read about setting up an array assumes that you are using a new
Ready drive.
I know my lack of understanding is painfull, but I'm trying to learn.
I'm sure there is much for me to learn, that is why I am doing this.
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Are the SCSI devices including the HDs enumerated during boot/POST?
Start with only a single drive attached to the SCSI bus. Make it the middle
one from the old setup. |
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Cyric
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:09 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in |
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| Quote: | news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
Are the SCSI devices including the HDs enumerated during boot/POST?
Start with only a single drive attached to the SCSI bus. Make it
the middle
one from the old setup.
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The SCSI devices are on 07, but the drives are not enumerated during
boot/POST, and I've tried each in the first position with no
success.
__more_info_that_may_help_________
I have two PCI cards:
Card 1 - is a small SCSI controller with a tape drive attached.
Card 2 - is the large SCSI RAID controller with 2 channels. There is
a cable going from channel 1 to the board on the back of the SCSI
drive enclosure.
One thing I did try to do is plug the SCSI cable into Card 1 and try
to access the drives that way. They DO get assigned ID's that way,
but it tells me there is no Host Adapter (I figure that part is on
the larger card) and won't let me access the drives.
I think in my messing around, I saved bad info to the RAID card which
I need to get to the enclosure. Before, when I could see the drives
from the RAID card, they didn't come up in the SCSI utility, they
would come up later in the mini ServeRAID feature. |
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Ron Reaugh
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:19 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
Are the SCSI devices including the HDs enumerated during boot/POST?
Start with only a single drive attached to the SCSI bus. Make it
the middle
one from the old setup.
The SCSI devices are on 07,
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What do you mean that they "are on 07"? Do you mean the SCSI ID? If so
then NO! Only the SCSI controller should be set to SCSI ID 7. Each drive
should be set to a unique ID and NOT 7.
| Quote: | but the drives are not enumerated during
boot/POST, and I've tried each in the first position with no
success.
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Define first position as you mean it above?
| Quote: | __more_info_that_may_help_________
I have two PCI cards:
Card 1 - is a small SCSI controller with a tape drive attached.
Card 2 - is the large SCSI RAID controller with 2 channels. There is
a cable going from channel 1 to the board on the back of the SCSI
drive enclosure.
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Stick with this one. Is there power to the drive enclosure. Terminator?
| Quote: | One thing I did try to do is plug the SCSI cable into Card 1 and try
to access the drives that way. They DO get assigned ID's that way,
but it
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What is "it"?
| Quote: | tells me there is no Host Adapter (I figure that part is on
the larger card) and won't let me access the drives.
I think in my messing around, I saved bad info to the RAID card which
I need to get to the enclosure.
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Rephrase.
| Quote: | Before, when I could see the drives
from the RAID card, they didn't come up in the SCSI utility, they
would come up later in the mini ServeRAID feature.
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As expected. |
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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On 3 Oct, in article <41603fc2$1_3@alt.athenanews.com>
bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid "Cyric" wrote:
| Quote: | This is where I got myself into trouble. It was showing all of the
drives in the ServeRAID mini-configuration. I then booted to
ServeRAID manager and saw all of the drives. I removed them by
clicking on the icon of the drive and selecting remove (bad idea). I
then realized that I didn't see an option to put them them back. I
rebooted and went into ServeRAID mini-config and all of the ID's were
blank. I set ServeRAID to default...nothing, still all blank. So
the only option left was "copy the configuration from drives to
controller", so I clicked it.
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Have you got the bootable CD that runs ServeRAID independent of any
operating system (well, actually it runs under PC-DOS v7, like all of the
Netfinity utilities)?
If not, download it from IBM's web-site (I've got a Netfinity 5500 M20,
and the requisite file is accessible via <http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support
/site.wss/product.do?template=/productpage/landingpages
/productPageLandingPage.vm&brandind=8&familyind=50185&
machineind=64452&modelind=64453&partnumberind=0&
subcategoryind=0&doctypeind=9&doccategoryind=0&operatingsystemind=50683
&validate=true>; YMWOV.
Whatever, there is a downloadable ISO image of a bootable CD which can be
burnt to disc and booted; this will run the ServeRAID manager software.
One of the (admittedly not immediately obvious, and perhaps only visible
upon using a RMB click somewhere) options is "scan status of available
drives". This ought to find all your hardware once again.
Did you get the original (four-inch-thick) ring-binder with the server's
documentation? If not the equivalent of the link I've posted above ought
to lead you to it.
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large multi-
national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent network/internet
software and decent hardware support." |
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Cyric
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Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in |
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| Quote: | news:415f979e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
What do you mean that they "are on 07"? Do you mean the SCSI ID?
If so
then NO! Only the SCSI controller should be set to SCSI ID 7.
Each drive
should be set to a unique ID and NOT 7.
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The devices...meaning: SCSI ID #7 AIC-7897 "this is your host
adapter"
The drives themselves do not show up at all.
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Define first position as you mean it above?
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When you say to take the middle drive and try that alone, I at one
point had taken each drive out of the enclosure and tried it in the
far left position of the enclosure.
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Card 2 - is the large SCSI RAID controller with 2 channels. There
is
a cable going from channel 1 to the board on the back of the SCSI
drive enclosure.
Stick with this one. Is there power to the drive enclosure.
Terminator?
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Okay. Yes there is power to the enclosure. All of the drives spin up
and the lights are green. As for terminator...I'm not sure, I
haven't removed anything, and it was working before, so I think it is
reliably teriminated.
Hooking up the SCSI cable coming from the enclosure to CARD 1 (the
small SCSI card) would show me the drives in individual ID's; however
IT (the SCSI utility showing the drives) gives an error that there is
no host adapter present. (I'm guessing becase the smaller card just
doesn't have a host adapter).
This part is what I think I did wrong in the begining, I will put it
at the end to seperate it from what is happening now and clarify.
This is where I got myself into trouble. It was showing all of the
drives in the ServeRAID mini-configuration. I then booted to
ServeRAID manager and saw all of the drives. I removed them by
clicking on the icon of the drive and selecting remove (bad idea). I
then realized that I didn't see an option to put them them back. I
rebooted and went into ServeRAID mini-config and all of the ID's were
blank. I set ServeRAID to default...nothing, still all blank. So
the only option left was "copy the configuration from drives to
controller", so I clicked it.
I think (and this is just a think because I really don't know) that in
ServeRAID manager when I clicked remove the drives it imprinted on
each of the drives that they were no longer part of the
configuration. Then when I saved that to the controler, the
controller thinks the same and is skipping over those drives and
looking for Ready drives. If there was some way to undo the "copy to
controler" thing (maybe some hard reset or something), or a way to
trick ServeRAID into seeing those drives as "ready or new" and not
removed or whatever I may be in good shape. |
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Ron Reaugh
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:36 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f979e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
What do you mean that they "are on 07"? Do you mean the SCSI ID?
If so
then NO! Only the SCSI controller should be set to SCSI ID 7.
Each drive
should be set to a unique ID and NOT 7.
The devices...meaning: SCSI ID #7 AIC-7897 "this is your host
adapter"
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Only the host adapter should be ID 7 as what you appear to be reporting
seems to say...so it's ok.
| Quote: | The drives themselves do not show up at all.
Define first position as you mean it above?
When you say to take the middle drive and try that alone, I at one
point had taken each drive out of the enclosure and tried it in the
far left position of the enclosure.
Card 2 - is the large SCSI RAID controller with 2 channels. There
is
a cable going from channel 1 to the board on the back of the SCSI
drive enclosure.
Stick with this one. Is there power to the drive enclosure.
Terminator?
Okay. Yes there is power to the enclosure. All of the drives spin up
and the lights are green. As for terminator...I'm not sure, I
haven't removed anything, and it was working before, so I think it is
reliably teriminated.
What is "it"?
Hooking up the SCSI cable coming from the enclosure to CARD 1 (the
small SCSI card) would show me the drives in individual ID's;
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"Show" how/where? Enumeration during post? What IDs are the drives? If
the drives are 80pin SCA drives and the enclosure has an SCA backplane then
the IDs are controlled by the enclosure slots and not jumpers on the drives
usually.
| Quote: | however
IT (the SCSI utility
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What SCSI utility?
| Quote: | showing the drives) gives an error that there is
no host adapter present.
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The small SCSI card IS a host adapter.
| Quote: | (I'm guessing becase the smaller card just
doesn't have a host adapter).
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Nope, it is a host adapter or it wouldn't show the drives as you said it
did.
| Quote: | Rephrase?
This part is what I think I did wrong in the begining, I will put it
at the end to seperate it from what is happening now and clarify.
As expected.
This is where I got myself into trouble. It was showing all of the
drives in the ServeRAID mini-configuration. I then booted to
ServeRAID manager and saw all of the drives. I removed them by
clicking on the icon of the drive and selecting remove (bad idea).
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Now you just must go back and reverse that.
| Quote: | I
then realized that I didn't see an option to put them them back.
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It may be hidden or called something else. FIND IT as it is absolutely
CERTAIN that such functionality is there.
| Quote: | I
rebooted and went into ServeRAID mini-config and all of the ID's were
blank. I set ServeRAID to default...nothing, still all blank. So
the only option left was "copy the configuration from drives to
controller", so I clicked it.
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No, somewhere it there there are more options.
| Quote: | I think (and this is just a think because I really don't know) that in
ServeRAID manager when I clicked remove the drives it imprinted on
each of the drives that they were no longer part of the
configuration.
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Very possibly. Now reverse it.
| Quote: | Then when I saved that to the controler, the
controller thinks the same and is skipping over those drives and
looking for Ready drives. If there was some way to undo the "copy to
controler" thing (maybe some hard reset or something), or a way to
trick ServeRAID into seeing those drives as "ready or new" and not
removed or whatever I may be in good shape.
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Yes, now search and find it. You are skipping the option because you've
convinced yourself it is not the one or you're not looking in the righty
places. Do a master brain reset.
"ServeRAID mini-configuration", "ServeRAID manager"...are there more
utilities or ways to go at the RAID?
Find the documentation in your stack or on the web and read it. |
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Cyric
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:09 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in |
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Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f979e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
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Ron Reaughwrote:
"Show" how/where? Enumeration during post? What IDs are the
drives? If
the drives are 80pin SCA drives and the enclosure has an SCA
backplane then
the IDs are controlled by the enclosure slots and not jumpers on the
drives
usually.
What SCSI utility?
The small SCSI card IS a host adapter.
Nope, it is a host adapter or it wouldn't show the drives as you
said it
did.
Okay, but let's forget about this card, you wanted to focus on the |
large RAID card anyway. And that's the one I'd really like to bring
back to life.
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As expected.
Now you just must go back and reverse that.
It may be hidden or called something else. FIND IT as it is
absolutely
CERTAIN that such functionality is there.
No, somewhere it there there are more options.
Very possibly. Now reverse it.
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Duh...If I could do that, I wouldn't be here.
| Quote: |
Yes, now search and find it. You are skipping the option because
you've
convinced yourself it is not the one or you're not looking in the
righty
places. Do a master brain reset.
"ServeRAID mini-configuration", "ServeRAID manager"...are there
more
utilities or ways to go at the RAID?
Find the documentation in your stack or on the web and read it.
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Good point about "master brain reset", I really feel like I just keep
doing the same things over and over again thinking I'll get a
different result at some point. But it really seems that until
ServeRAID picks up the drives and gives them each an ID, my options
are very limited. |
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Ron Reaugh
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Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:31 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
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Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f979e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
"Cyric" <bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
news:415f6d5e$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
Ron Reaughwrote:
"Show" how/where? Enumeration during post? What IDs are the
drives? If
the drives are 80pin SCA drives and the enclosure has an SCA
backplane then
the IDs are controlled by the enclosure slots and not jumpers on the
drives
usually.
What SCSI utility?
The small SCSI card IS a host adapter.
Nope, it is a host adapter or it wouldn't show the drives as you
said it
did.
Okay, but let's forget about this card, you wanted to focus on the
large RAID card anyway. And that's the one I'd really like to bring
back to life.
As expected.
Now you just must go back and reverse that.
It may be hidden or called something else. FIND IT as it is
absolutely
CERTAIN that such functionality is there.
No, somewhere it there there are more options.
Very possibly. Now reverse it.
Duh...If I could do that, I wouldn't be here.
Yes, now search and find it. You are skipping the option because
you've
convinced yourself it is not the one or you're not looking in the
righty
places. Do a master brain reset.
"ServeRAID mini-configuration", "ServeRAID manager"...are there
more
utilities or ways to go at the RAID?
Find the documentation in your stack or on the web and read it.
Good point about "master brain reset", I really feel like I just keep
doing the same things over and over again thinking I'll get a
different result at some point. But it really seems that until
ServeRAID picks up the drives and gives them each an ID, my options
are very limited.
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Cyric
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Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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| Quote: | Brian {Hamilton Kelly}wrote:
On 3 Oct, in article <41603fc2$1_3@alt.athenanews.com
bbilyk@comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid "Cyric" wrote:
This is where I got myself into trouble. It was showing all of the
drives in the ServeRAID mini-configuration. I then booted to
ServeRAID manager and saw all of the drives. I removed them by
clicking on the icon of the drive and selecting remove (bad idea).
I
then realized that I didn't see an option to put them them back. I
rebooted and went into ServeRAID mini-config and all of the ID's
were
blank. I set ServeRAID to default...nothing, still all blank. So
the only option left was "copy the configuration from drives to
controller", so I clicked it.
Have you got the bootable CD that runs ServeRAID independent of any |
operating system (well, actually it runs under PC-DOS v7, like all of
the
Netfinity utilities)?
If not, download it from IBM's web-site (I've got a Netfinity 5500
M20,
and the requisite file is accessible via
<http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support
/site.wss/product.do?template=/productpage/landingpages
/productPageLandingPage.vm&brandind=8&familyind=50185&
machineind=64452&modelind=64453&partnumberind=0&
subcategoryind=0&doctypeind=9&doccategoryind=0&operatingsystemind=50683
&validate=true>; YMWOV.
Whatever, there is a downloadable ISO image of a bootable CD which can
be
burnt to disc and booted; this will run the ServeRAID manager
software.
One of the (admittedly not immediately obvious, and perhaps only
visible
upon using a RMB click somewhere) options is "scan status of
available
drives". This ought to find all your hardware once again.
Did you get the original (four-inch-thick) ring-binder with the
server's
documentation? If not the equivalent of the link I've posted above
ought
to lead you to it.
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
bhk@dsl.co.uk
"I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large
multi-
national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent
network/internet
software and decent hardware support."[/quote:7f402ea5d2]
I do have the bootable disk, and that is what got me into hot water to
begin with (this is where I found the "remove drive" function). I
have tried the "scan status of available drives", and it scans
through the drives and reports back: 0 ready drives, 0 removed ready
drives. I don't know what designates a drive as "ready", but most of
the documentation I have read assumes you are adding a "factory new"
drive, whereas the ones that I am using do have information on them,
just not accessable information.
Thanks for the heads up about the manual, I have downloaded a few
different things, but I'm not sure if I have the particular one you
mention. I'll have to check through the gobs of files I have now. |
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Cyric
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Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:10 am Post subject:
Re: Help needed with host adapter not showing drives. |
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I am still looking for an answer to my situation.
I have trouble shooted more, and believe my drives are all set to an
EMPty state as indicated by _ _ _ in the ServRAID mini configuration.
All of the officical IBM and Adaptec documentation assume you are
concerned about your data and recomend having a technician service
your server.
IBM:
"Theoretically, a drive should not be in a drive bay in the EMPty
state."
"Examples of the possible state changes include:
Online to Defunct (ONL: DDD: x: y)
Ready to Empty (RDY: EMP: x: y)
Standby to Empty (SBY: EMP: x: y)
Rebuild to Defunct (RBL: DDD: x: y)
Hot-Spare to Defunct (HSP: DHS: x: y)
Standby Hot-Spare to Defunct (SHS: DHS: x: y) "
No indication of how to go from EMP to anything else. Everthing else
I see that may help me assumes I have an operating system.
Unfortunatly, without a hard drive to store an OS on, this prooves to
be imposible.
Any advice is still welcome. Thanks. |
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