Did you record or remember which drive failed first? Leave that drive offline. The 2nd failed drive should be forced online using the controller BIOS.
Procedure for new controller card:
Install new card, do not connect the hard drives yet.
Enter ctrl M for the card BIOS, go to configure and clear configuration, save and exit. Power off.
Connect the drives, power up and enter into the ctrl m BIOS again. Select configure view configuration, and when asked to see NVRAM or hard drive, select drive. You should see your array info, it may still be in a degraded or failed condition.
Go into objects physical devices and select each drive in turn and press F2 to see if the drive lists capacity and has no media or other errors. Reply to me with details if you have errors here.
If the first drive that failed is listed as online, please force it offline, and force any other off line drives online. Save and exit, reboot. you should get a notice that logicial drive 0 is degraded but the system should still boot.
You can then initiate a rebuild of the offline drive.
Please note that there could be another cause of the drives dropping offline, your power supply could have been damaged by the power problems you experianced. I would advise perhaps getting a replacement P/S to make sure the system is stable.
warwizard55
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January 11th, 2006 15:00
Hi Rohan,
Did you record or remember which drive failed first? Leave that drive offline. The 2nd failed drive should be forced online using the controller BIOS.
Procedure for new controller card:
Install new card, do not connect the hard drives yet.
Enter ctrl M for the card BIOS, go to configure and clear configuration, save and exit. Power off.
Connect the drives, power up and enter into the ctrl m BIOS again. Select configure view configuration, and when asked to see NVRAM or hard drive, select drive. You should see your array info, it may still be in a degraded or failed condition.
Go into objects physical devices and select each drive in turn and press F2 to see if the drive lists capacity and has no media or other errors. Reply to me with details if you have errors here.
If the first drive that failed is listed as online, please force it offline, and force any other off line drives online. Save and exit, reboot. you should get a notice that logicial drive 0 is degraded but the system should still boot.
You can then initiate a rebuild of the offline drive.
Please note that there could be another cause of the drives dropping offline, your power supply could have been damaged by the power problems you experianced. I would advise perhaps getting a replacement P/S to make sure the system is stable.
warwizard