I'm new to server troubleshooting and I was told to look at what I was told was a server with no RAID. It appears that a hard drive had failed, and on the start up only the boot disk screen would appear. However, when I booted it up, serveRAID error messages came up and in the configuration serveRAID utility it said it was in fact RAID 5.
The server has 4 hard drives; one of which in bay 0 is a hot spare (which I'm not sure entirely what that means). The drives in bay 1 and 2 were blinking yellow lights (which I think means rebuilding), and the one in bay 3 had a solid yellow light (which I think means bad drive).
I switched the "bad drive" with the hot spare and now all 3 lights are blinking yellow. However, the server still does not boot up. The boot disk screen still appears (the one where there is a picture of a disk and F1 being pressed).
Is the data on the server recoverable? Is it just a matter of waiting for the rebuilds? Why would it not work after only losing one drive? Any help is appreciated.
The server has 4 hard drives; one of which in bay 0 is a hot spare (which I'm not sure entirely what that means). The drives in bay 1 and 2 were blinking yellow lights (which I think means rebuilding), and the one in bay 3 had a solid yellow light (which I think means bad drive).
I switched the "bad drive" with the hot spare and now all 3 lights are blinking yellow. However, the server still does not boot up. The boot disk screen still appears (the one where there is a picture of a disk and F1 being pressed).
Is the data on the server recoverable? Is it just a matter of waiting for the rebuilds? Why would it not work after only losing one drive? Any help is appreciated.
