SCA SCSI HD's 3rd one is a no show...

donscomp

donscomp

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I am running an old Gateway 7400 server. It use to be a DNS server, mail server and all. Ended up getting another ISP and dynamic IP's so quit running it AS a server. Anyhow. The motherboard fried.
I replaced it. Everthing came up except my drives.

I ended up getting the OS drive up and the 3rd drive as well. The 2nd and
3rd drives are just storage. But the 2nd one I cant see and the light (which is not on the drive but on the backplane FOR that drive) stays on all the time.

These drives are Hot swapable and plug into a back plane.
You can see the server here.www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scr8B_WnDms

LOL THIS IS NOT ME.

I thought I would do a fresh install of the OS (server 2003) and start all over.
After hours of fighting the floppy drive. Taking one from another computer and getting the SCSI drivers onto a floppy started the install and did an F6 and it loaded the scsi 3rd party drivers.

I loaded windows 2003 server because I couldnt get the 3rd party drivers to load with XP.

Still the same thing.

I went into bios and it only shows 2 drives.
If I go into Ctrl C into scsi config. it shows all 3.
Once booted up if I go to my computer and manage. It shows the OS drive as C and the next one as F and the next one as Unreadable and the light (on the backplane FOR that drive) is on all the time.

Kinda baffled here.

Any ideas would be grateful. I am afraid it is a dead drive.
Oh, I also swapped the drives around and no matter where I put THAT drive. THAT slots light would come on and stay on.

Thanks all
Don
 
bkribbs said:
The motherboard fried. How? Power surge or something? The harddrive could be dead.
Click to expand...

Well, running all the time for 10 years. I dont know how. But the little light on the board next to the processor was not lit anymore. Everything came on but the monitor. Got a new board and all was well again. But the board isnt the problem.

It is one of the 3 drives I cant see. Well, like I said. I cant see it in bios. I see only 2. I can in scsi config by hitting ctrl C on boot. Shows all 3 drives on the
2nd controller. And if I right click My Computer and go to manage, all 3 are there but one says unreadable.
 
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find much about your server. Do you happen to have a manual that tells you what the lights mean? Like bkribbs I'm thinking the drive is failed. Any drive that's had nearly 100% uptime for 10 years has a chance to not start again once it's been turned off. At a previous job we used to shut down our primary and secondary data centres once a year (on different days) and there were always a handful of drives that wouldn't start back up.
 
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