[RndTbl] Desperate plea for help

[Kevin McGregor]

I'd like to know more about those command-line tools! I don't know when I'd
need them again (never, I hope), but I'd rather be prepared!

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:

> HP has their own command line tools which have a lot more features and
> options than the BIOS does. I recently used them to turn two single
> disks into a RAID 1 on a live system with no data loss or downtime.
>
> They also have a lot of querying tools for examining the raid set etc.
>
> If you haven't already tried them I can find out some more information.
>
> Regards
> --
> John Lange
> http://www.johnlange.ca
>
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:53 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> > I've got a HP ProLiant server running OpenFiler, and due to errors on
> > my part, the SCSI drives got rearranged. Now the HP 6400 RAID
> > controller complains that an "unsupported drive rearrangement has been
> > attempted", and the logical volume is missing. Is there any way to
> > recover the correct order of drives in the drive bay?
> >
> > It is a test server, so technically no big deal, but you know how it
> > is with "test" servers... It would be pretty annoying to lose all the
> > data.
> >
> > I've tried booting the 8.30 SmartStart and using the ADU/ACU utility,
> > but it doesn't seem to show anything useful for this. It shows the
> > controller and all drives being "uninitialized", not just being out of
> > order. The Option ROM utility also doesn't show anything.
> >
> > Suggestions, aside from "use software RAID next time"?
> >
> > Kevin
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