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Adaptec ultra 320 card
I have a server that has this card on it, it is a Adaptec ultra 320 Scsi card AIC 7902. i need to know if there is a utility that i can use to monitor this as well as the drives that are on it. the issue is that the server was rebooted and and there is a menu to select volume you want o boot. it says Windows 2003 server enterprise edition and the one right below it says boot c:\primary mirror, im not 100% sure on that it says that. but i select the Windows 2003 server one it starts to boot up with the windows 2003 boot skin then it comes to a blue screen that says check your disc for viruses and stop error: 0x0000007B and some other parameters that are 0x000 numbers. so i chose the other one and it booted fine but i really need a utlitly to look at this card and see what the issue is.
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You have a boot sector virus on your primary drive.
There are several things here that I....wonder about. If you are booting from the Adaptec Ultra 320 card, this is a hardware raid controller. However, the way that this has reacted does sound software raid-like. It is possible that you have run a software raid OVER the top of a hardware raid or something similar. For instance, if you use the card to create TWO raid 1 mirrors then Win will see what it thinks are two hard drives. Then, those could have been configured into a software raid making a very ugly form of a raid 1+1. You can quickly check this by checking to see if you have a total of half your total physical hdd space or one-quarter. If this is truly a hardware raid configuration then the boot option that you received would have had to come from the raid controller BIOS and not the system BIOS. It is also possible that you have the h/w raid but you are booting from a software raid on disks not connected to that controller. It is usually possible to use the integrated motherboard controller and use a PCI controller at the same time. We will probably need more info to be able to nail this down quickly. Assuming that you are not mixing hardware and software raid and that you are booting from drives configured on the Adaptec, I really don't think that there is a utility that would not require a reboot - which I would not recommend until you have backups. If this machine is a Dell, they have a utility called Dell System Extraction Tool (DSET) which does not require a reboot and gathers information from logs and such which might help but I don't think the tool will work on any other machines. If this is a hardware raid then it is possible that the raid controller uses a sort of primary/secondary configuration for the disks in a mirror when it comes to the boot.ini but I really don't think so. Usually on an Adaptec you can configure which raid container is the boot container but not the individual physical disk. Also, like I mentioned earlier, you would have had to press something like CTRL + A during POST and entered the raid controller BIOS to make any changes like that when this occurred. I would recommend getting backups (NOT over the last known good backups just in case there is corruption). Then call the manufacturer of the machine to see what tools they can provide you for free to diagnose this problem. We're always here if you need us but we may need more information if we are not going to be just "taking a shot in the dark".
Got carried away and did not read well enough. Sorry. I confused your controller with an Adaptec U320/DC which is a hardware raid controller. That card is only a SCSI adapter and does not handle hardware raid support so this has to be a software raid as skca54 originally said. Please disregard my long winded ramble.
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by: skca54Posted on 2007-01-17 at 12:00:05ID: 18335388
You are using software RAID (controlled by windows). You have booted from the mirrored disk as the primary has a fault. Look in Disk Manager to see what the status of the primary (drive 0) hard disk is?