Hi there,
We're in the process of upgrading servers from NT4 to W2K.
We are currently running some tests on dev boxes.
Hardware spec is as follows:
Comapq Proliant 3000. Samrt array controiller = 2DH
2 partitions - (2 disks as Raid1 set = OS, 3 disks as RAID5 set = data, 1 global hot spare shared between partitions.)
We want to have a backout plan should the rebuild process not go according to plan.
We powered down the server, removed one of the OS drives (this is for backout - so we can boot back into an NT4 OS). Power the server back on. The global hot spare then re-syncs with the existing drive.
We rebuilt the OS with W2K. All works fine (except for some errors at boot time, complaining that the removed disk had failed, as expected.)
To test our backout plan, we removed the rebuilt disk & reinserted the old NT4.0 disk. Rebooted the server but it fails when trying to load the OS
Any ideas?
Does one of the disks within a RAID1 set become the "Active" disk or boot disk?
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Mise
We're in the process of upgrading servers from NT4 to W2K.
We are currently running some tests on dev boxes.
Hardware spec is as follows:
Comapq Proliant 3000. Samrt array controiller = 2DH
2 partitions - (2 disks as Raid1 set = OS, 3 disks as RAID5 set = data, 1 global hot spare shared between partitions.)
We want to have a backout plan should the rebuild process not go according to plan.
We powered down the server, removed one of the OS drives (this is for backout - so we can boot back into an NT4 OS). Power the server back on. The global hot spare then re-syncs with the existing drive.
We rebuilt the OS with W2K. All works fine (except for some errors at boot time, complaining that the removed disk had failed, as expected.)
To test our backout plan, we removed the rebuilt disk & reinserted the old NT4.0 disk. Rebooted the server but it fails when trying to load the OS
Any ideas?
Does one of the disks within a RAID1 set become the "Active" disk or boot disk?
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Mise
