I seem to be having troubles with my HD ever since I installed a 29320 scsi card into my server the other day with an Exabyte Mammoth-2 drive. I'm trying to rebuild my mirror within Disk Management and it has now been longer than 12 hours and it is still regenerating. Any suggestions???
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HD Regenerating for more than 12 hours now in Disk Management
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hywaydave,
This is a continuation of thread751-1157887.
I did caution you on this but you did not post back with a reply.
Are the drivers for this card the same as for your old card?
I think they will not be. I also recommended that you use the card BIOS setup to errect the array. As this is now a "Hardware Raid" setup, using win functions to manage/setup is not the way to go. Use the provided hardware setup utilities provided by Adaptec to set this up.
rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all
This is a continuation of thread751-1157887.
I did caution you on this but you did not post back with a reply.
Are the drivers for this card the same as for your old card?
I think they will not be. I also recommended that you use the card BIOS setup to errect the array. As this is now a "Hardware Raid" setup, using win functions to manage/setup is not the way to go. Use the provided hardware setup utilities provided by Adaptec to set this up.
rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all
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hywaydave,
If you want assistance you will have to provide information that is requested.
Good Luck to You
rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all
You are not making any sense!! Either you are taking steps that you are not posting or you are posting incorrect information.
If you want assistance you will have to provide information that is requested.
Good Luck to You
rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all
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OK. This is what has been done on this server....
I tried switching my HD from a 2940 to a 2120S RAID controller first. I first installed the Windows drivers before I attached the HD to it. When I rebooted it told me that no OS could be found (the 2940 card was already removed).
Then I put the HD back on the 2940 card so I could boot back to the OS. We then installed a 29320 card so that we could reattach an Exabyte Mammoth-2 tape drive into the server (it was away for repairs). So now I have a HD on the 2940 and a tape drive on the 29320. Since I have put the tape drive back with the 29320, the HD has been acting wierd. I receive a BSOD when the ArcServe tried to do a back up (I first get disk errors in the event log before it blue screens). So now I'm not doing any backup jobs on that server, and it has not blue screened since. But I'm trying to rebuild my mirror, but within disk management it says "regenerating". Any suggestions.....
My ultimate goal would be to get these HD onto the 2120S RAID controller without losing the OS and data.
I tried switching my HD from a 2940 to a 2120S RAID controller first. I first installed the Windows drivers before I attached the HD to it. When I rebooted it told me that no OS could be found (the 2940 card was already removed).
Then I put the HD back on the 2940 card so I could boot back to the OS. We then installed a 29320 card so that we could reattach an Exabyte Mammoth-2 tape drive into the server (it was away for repairs). So now I have a HD on the 2940 and a tape drive on the 29320. Since I have put the tape drive back with the 29320, the HD has been acting wierd. I receive a BSOD when the ArcServe tried to do a back up (I first get disk errors in the event log before it blue screens). So now I'm not doing any backup jobs on that server, and it has not blue screened since. But I'm trying to rebuild my mirror, but within disk management it says "regenerating". Any suggestions.....
My ultimate goal would be to get these HD onto the 2120S RAID controller without losing the OS and data.
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