Lost Partition & can't initialize

Question

I have a Clariion AX4-5F and I was having trouble copying & deleting files & folders. I was getting a lot of hard disk # 51 & NTFS #57 errors in my system event log so I rebooted the server. When it came back up the 2 SAN drives connected to the server were missing. I went into Disk Management and it said the drives need to be initialized. When I tried to initialize them with MBR format, I get the message 'The device is not ready' & 'VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation. Error code: 80070015@02070008' in the system log. I guess all the data is gone, which is no big deal, I just want to get the drive space back onto a stable partition. I unassigned the luns in Navisphere, rescanned & they went away. I then assigned them, rescanned & they came back, but still can't initialize them. The two drives are 2TB & 1.6TB in size connected directly to the server with fiber running Windows Server 2008R2. All components are 'Normal' & connections are 'Active'. It's running Flare ver. 02.23.050.5.711.

imccoy · Accepted Answer

Found the problem. In 'Connections' it has the HBA active on A1. I went into the Virtual Disk Acces Details, and it said it was using SP B. I clicked 'Change Ports for Access', rescanned the drives on the server & everything came back intact.

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