Lost Drives

[jitter]

I have a server that was brought to me by another one of our offices. On startup the second scsi drive fails to start with error "Start Unit Request Failed". There are a total of 6 drives in the machine.

The C: drive is fine and lets the server boot up but the other 4 drives (the 2nd did not start and does not show up in disk management) all show unallocated. Neither I or the other admin where the server came from knows exactly how the drives were setup (our bad) but think that it was a striped set with the 5 drives.

For something like this would it be that the drives were using raid 0 and the first drive failed so all of them failed? Or it could have been raid 5? I am just not sure what may have caused this besides that. Losing 5 drives like this has never happened to me.

Any input to why this would happen this way and why all the other drives show unallocated would be so hopefull.

Thanks,

Jitter

 

[DaveFarquhar]

Jitter, what you describe is exactly what happens when a RAID 0 array loses a drive. With RAID5, losing one drive would still allow the array to operate.

Dave Farquhar

http://dfarq.homeip.net

 

[1101001100110101]

It was probably raid 0 as a lose of one drive would break the whole raid setup. Raid 5 has fault tolerance and you can lose a drive without losing the data.

 

[jitter]

Thank you both for your reply. That was what I was afraid of.

Thanks again!

Jitter