Fun with RAID.

[nihilist]

1. Install new server
2. ram bricks self
3. bios settings corrupt
4. windows reboots
5. windows reconfigures hdd info, boot order etc; and seems to run OK
6. apps start to crash
7. I reboot into memtest86+ ram is dead and needs to be replaced
8. I get new ram
9. I didn't know RAID was disabled, but was wondering why I had 2x drives and partitions
10. I discover RAID disabled
11. Windows won't boot with RAID renabled.. missing ntoskrnl32..

 

[The_Unbeliever]

fun, fun, fun....

...NOT

 

[nihilist]

It's ok without RAID, so it's just going to have to be RAID-less until I can organise downtime.

fsckign windows auto-reconfiguring hardware..

 

[Glordit]

RAID - 0 Windows - 0
...You Fail!
...Stalemate!

 

[nihilist]

AHHAHAHAAA

Nice witty reply there mate!

RAID - 0 Windows - 0
...You Fail!
...Stalemate!

 

[Glordit]

AHHAHAHAAA

Nice witty reply there mate!

Had my fair share of pain with RAID on IDE & SATA drivers just gave up and just used 1 HDD as a main one, pluged the other into a HDD enclosure and did back up's every week.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The HP e200 SATA RAID controller works beautifully - haven't had any serious hassles with it.

5 SATA HDD's, 4 in use, 5th as spare.

A bit pricey, but worth it.

Don't know if it'll work with non-ProLiant servers tho...

 

[nihilist]

The controller on this board is fine, it's just that the RAM f'd up the BIOS settings, disabling RAID, and the boot order was reset to default, so Windows booted off one of the RAID mirrors.. thus messing it up.

I suppose it might be possible to reconstruct the RAID by mirroring the first drive's contents, overwriting the second's contents and then making it boot again - but doing this on a critical box might yield some bad results. :|

 

[leelo]

to add RAID, you'll have to enable the RAID on the controller, then run your XP Installation as a repair install- making sure you hit F6 and install the Text-Mode (OEM PnP Driver) driver - this will replace the current text mode driver that windows boots with. So make sure you've done it sucessfully and that you've tested your stiffy drive and text mode driver disk first!