Mirrored HD crashed, will not resync
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Barry Schnur
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for7676
how it came up...
When the drive originally went down, the four drives were set, two
lower as SYS and two upper as VOL1
1 VOL1
2 VOL1
3 SYS
4 SYS
The drive which failed was, in my diagram, #2.
This drive was replaced, and after the system restarted the new drive
was lit up, but the old drive didn't.
1 VOL1 - original
2 VOL1 - new
3 SYS
4 SYS
After our discussion on Friday, I planned on changing the positions of
the drives Monday night so that they were in this configuration
1 VOL1 - new
2 VOL1 - original
3 SYS
4 SYS
When I restarted the system this time, SYS mounted, then VOL1 began to
mount, and I recieved a message stating that an inactive device was
associated with a mirror, should I try to use this device (y/n)
I pressed yes and VOL1 began to mount, I then proceeded to login, and
VOL1 was visible from the network at my PC.
Felton Green
Did you check the terminations prior to powerup?
Can you describe exactly what you did?
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Barry Schnur
for7676
I didn't look at the termination...I downed the server, powered down
the SCSI-HD cabinet , changed the position of the drives (reversed
them) in the cabinet and powered the cabinet up again, then brought the
server up.
I watched the startup to make sure that there were no irregularities
mount SYS - no problems
mount VOL1 - message displayed "there is an inactive drive associated
with the mirror, do you wish to reactivate the drive (y/n)"
I hit yes and VOL1 mounted. After the server finished loading, I went
to my PC and all of the network drives were visible and accessible.
And we haven't had any problems with the mirror/drives since...
That is really all that I did. Power down, switch, power up. I
honestly don't know why the drives worked like that, but they did.
Barry Schnur
>
>I didn't look at the termination...I downed the server, powered down
>the SCSI-HD cabinet , changed the position of the drives (reversed
>them) in the cabinet and powered the cabinet up again, then brought the
>server up.
>
>I watched the startup to make sure that there were no irregularities
>mount SYS - no problems
>mount VOL1 - message displayed "there is an inactive drive associated
>with the mirror, do you wish to reactivate the drive (y/n)"
>
>I hit yes and VOL1 mounted. After the server finished loading, I went
>to my PC and all of the network drives were visible and accessible.
>
>And we haven't had any problems with the mirror/drives since...
>
>That is really all that I did. Power down, switch, power up. I
>honestly don't know why the drives worked like that, but they did.
>
I'd guess that you might need to check the configuration in the SCSI BIOS -- to force the
drive to spin up on the system boot. That command can be issued manually (which is
perhaps what you did on the NetWare side).
Felton Green
I tell the bios level to send a start signal to all drives that are
connected. If I still get errors of this nature, I reseat the SCSI cables
( and use Stabilant 22 http://www.stabilant.com ) and then use another
cable is that doesn't work. Your method is just as good, but doesn't
eliminate cables. If I still get the errors I order another drive and hope
that I can get a decent backup.
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"for7676" <for7676...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> The drives are Compaq SCSI 9.1GB Hot-swaps...
>
> I didn't look at the termination...I downed the server, powered down
> the SCSI-HD cabinet , changed the position of the drives (reversed
> them) in the cabinet and powered the cabinet up again, then brought the
> server up.
>
> I watched the startup to make sure that there were no irregularities
> mount SYS - no problems
> mount VOL1 - message displayed "there is an inactive drive associated
> with the mirror, do you wish to reactivate the drive (y/n)"
>
> I hit yes and VOL1 mounted. After the server finished loading, I went
> to my PC and all of the network drives were visible and accessible.
>
> And we haven't had any problems with the mirror/drives since...
>
> That is really all that I did. Power down, switch, power up. I
> honestly don't know why the drives worked like that, but they did.
>
>