Re: SAS Raid Card starts and then freezes
- From: "Peter" <peterfoxghost@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:15:38 -0500
> Server: IBM x366
> RAID card: IBM ServeRAID 8i (Adaptec OEM)
>
> During bootup, the RAID card's firmware would boot, do a self test and
> declare that the RAID controller has started. After this I got the
> message "Controller kernel stopped <<Press any key to continue>>".
>
> Opened the box, disconnected the SAS controller cables to the hard
> disks, re-seated the RAID card and the RAID card came up again but now
> Windows 2003 refuses to boot complaining about missing system files.
>
> The hardware support engineer said that the card must've got unseated
> but I don't buy that. If the card was unseated, how did the RAID card
> firmware bootup, do self tests and declare that the controller has
> started? Also, if it was just unseated then why is the OS corrupted
> after the RAID card came up again?
Maybe card disfunction occured when server was still running and corruption
happened at that time.
Reconfigure RAID again (just to be sure), reinstall OS and test.
.
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