Hello all,
I have been very pleased with the amount of great advice I have recieved from the members of this community so I come to you again in dire straits. I have an HP LH 3000 Netserver that was given to me not long ago. It has 12 SCSI drives configured as one container in a RAID 5 configuration. This last weekend the server was running a bit slower than usual so I decided to give it a reboot after applying a few patches. These patches were nothing that should have caused a problem as they had been tested on other systems with the same configuration (minus drive size) without any problems.
I have my entire life on this server and now it will not boot up. I know I probably screwed myself when I failed to install a tape backup system but I was informed that RAID 5 was safe. I am a "server" noob, I primarily work on workstations. The first time the system went to reboot it went through the POST test just fine, but failed to see ID 8 on Channel 0. At the suggestion of a co-worker I pulled all the hot swap drives, and reseated them all to make sure it wasn't a connection issue. This caused the SCSI utility to detect all the devices properly, however it still won't boot. The goes through all the post testing, and jsut about the time you would normally get the boot screen it goes to a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of the screen.
I have tried ERD's but I can't get the server to boot from the floppy drive. I have even tried the windows 2000 server CD and I cannot get it to see that to boot from either. In fact when I do get to the Boot menu it will not acknowledge my selection of any 1 thru 5 option. I tried to select the CD-ROM and the flexible disc and it just stares back at me. The only thing I can do is hit enter which simply takes me into the BIOS setup.
Is there anyone who can help me get any information off of these drives? I have school, work, and my entire life backed up on this server, and I cannot lose then.
Please and thank you in advance.
I have been very pleased with the amount of great advice I have recieved from the members of this community so I come to you again in dire straits. I have an HP LH 3000 Netserver that was given to me not long ago. It has 12 SCSI drives configured as one container in a RAID 5 configuration. This last weekend the server was running a bit slower than usual so I decided to give it a reboot after applying a few patches. These patches were nothing that should have caused a problem as they had been tested on other systems with the same configuration (minus drive size) without any problems.
I have my entire life on this server and now it will not boot up. I know I probably screwed myself when I failed to install a tape backup system but I was informed that RAID 5 was safe. I am a "server" noob, I primarily work on workstations. The first time the system went to reboot it went through the POST test just fine, but failed to see ID 8 on Channel 0. At the suggestion of a co-worker I pulled all the hot swap drives, and reseated them all to make sure it wasn't a connection issue. This caused the SCSI utility to detect all the devices properly, however it still won't boot. The goes through all the post testing, and jsut about the time you would normally get the boot screen it goes to a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of the screen.
I have tried ERD's but I can't get the server to boot from the floppy drive. I have even tried the windows 2000 server CD and I cannot get it to see that to boot from either. In fact when I do get to the Boot menu it will not acknowledge my selection of any 1 thru 5 option. I tried to select the CD-ROM and the flexible disc and it just stares back at me. The only thing I can do is hit enter which simply takes me into the BIOS setup.
Is there anyone who can help me get any information off of these drives? I have school, work, and my entire life backed up on this server, and I cannot lose then.
Please and thank you in advance.