RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4R - Boot Hang - Checking Disk....*

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I waited 3 hours the first attempt at replacing the drive and 14 hours (over
night) the last attempt (last night).

Each time the LCD displays: Checking Disk....*


The server today reports the following through the GUI:

A hard drive has failed. Please shutdown the RaQ and replace the failed hard
drive with a new one that is the same size as the remaining drive. Data will
be restored to the replacement hard drive automatically.

The initial message stated the drive on the left as you face the blue bezel
on the front of the server had failed and that it need to be replaced.


You had suggested swapping the location of the good drive with the failed
drive if I understood correctly??

In essence I did just that when I tried to boot the system up with the
working drive in it's original location and a identically imaged drive (100%
bit for bit identical) installed in the failed drives location.

I even went as far as to install the cloned drive in the failed drive
location and tried to boot from it without the original working drive
connected to the system.. still no luck.

Any other ideas??

Jerry



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:26 AM
To: Cobalt-Users
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4R - Boot Hang - Checking Disk....*


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jerry Farquhar wrote:

> Need some assistance trying to figure out why a RAQ4R is failing to boot
up
> with a replacement drive installed after a drive failure.
>
> The system boots up fine with only the original remaining working drive
but
> get's stuck at the "Checking Disk... *" as displayed on the LCD.
>
> We've tried two different replacement drives and neither do any better.
>
> FYI's -
>
> 1.) the replacement drive(s) is identical brand/size & model
> 2.) we have attempted installing the replacement drive(s) unformatted
> (no-partitions)
> 3.) we have even tried mirroring the drives using a hardware drive cloning
> tool to make the replacement drive identical to the working drive in the
> system (it doesn't work any better)

  Also, how long did you wait, before thinking there is a problem
  I would try 30 to 60 minutes.

Gerald
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