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hangs at booting the controller kernel, dell poweredge 700 with 1.5 dell cerc sata raid card
i at a server that was running with a degraded array and it showeed that drive 1 was grey so i shut it down and went and got a new 80gb hd sata. now the computer wont boot past the sata raid card saying booting the controller kernel with all 3 drives in. i need to rebuild array. if i take one data cable out it will boot but i cannot get all 3 to boot past that screen. need help an fast?? I unplugged the sata 0 and 1 data cable 2 different reboots and the card will start but not when all 3 data cables are into the drives.
i am going to try putting the old drive back in and see what it does? please help
i am going to try putting the old drive back in and see what it does? please help
Maggie Sottero
Can you boot with Dell's array mgmt utilities? From the DVD, you should be able to run a diagnostic to ensure your controller isn't having issues.
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Try removing drive 1 (the one that was greyed out).
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here is the answer number 1 drive is bad clicking and when the number 0 drive is plugged in the sata raid card wont boot the kernel trying diff cables and with one plugged in and yada yada with dell tech support for 2 hours. we came to conclusion the only drive that will boot with card is drive 2 and that drive 0 is shorting it out. i will have to get all new drives and rebuild server from gorund up, it has ad on it. I am going to make new domain and transfer all workstations to new domain. any better ideas?
Not unless you have a backup to simply restore ... unfortunately.
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we have a carbonite backup of the server? Also has another server mught be a dc i have to check tomrrow. if it is i can keep domain and just switch all workstations to point to other server correct?
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the other server is not a dc so i guess since i cant seize the roles and cant get any data off server and since it held all the roles. i have to rebuild a new domain? and move all workstations to it? any other help?
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