Anonymous Posted on Apr 04, 2012

ML3670 does not boot as it does not found an boot disk

Hi our ML370 has 6 drives, one for boot, the other in a raid 5.0, HD in slot 5 (ID-4) flashes red and failed the test and should be replaced. HD in slot 0 (i suppose thats the boot disk, does not go on to the green HD Sign. The server does not boot anymore and is saying no boot disk present. before HD in slot 0 failed, the server hangs up on crcdisk.sys command. The fault with HD in slot 0 no propably has been caused as we unplugged this particulary HD during the boot sequence, is this so? Can you help us as HP is taking to liong to react. In the meantime we made a backup with Acronis. Let me know

Venkatesh Kulkarni Apr 06, 2012

how did you design your raid configuration with 6 drives.Are all Drives in Raid 5.

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Replace HDD (Red Flashing ).It seems you have unknowingly disturbed your Raid . If Possible take backup of your server.Reconfigure RAID and Freshly Install OS .

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SOURCE: ugrade of DL380 G4 Server HDD Raid Array 36GB --->146GB Required

Try to look at this Guide & Manual on "HOW TO"

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Hope my initial idea/info helps you..

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Posted on Jun 18, 2009

SOURCE: harddrive array sequence causing system in booting

If the only drive you changed was the drive that failed and all the others are in the correct sequence, then that's a good thing.

The next question is, did you have this system setup in a RAID Array and if so, what RAID configuration were you using (RAID 0,1,5, etc.)? Some RAID configurations allow you to replace a failed drive and not lose data, but I will need to know more about how you set the system up in order to help you more.

Anonymous

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Posted on Jul 16, 2009

SOURCE: Second Led on HDD is flashing Red

you can run "chkdsk /r" coomand to recover your harddisk.
Also if you can delete partition and then create new partition thehn format it so all errors are fixed .

Anonymous

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Posted on Jul 22, 2009

SOURCE: The system is setup using the RAID 5 config, now

Dont you have any levelling inside the machine? Go open and check.

When you have replaced the 2 defective drives with a new one, restart the computer and Raid 5 will automatically rebuild.

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Posted on May 29, 2010

SOURCE: POST errors forcing server to crash

Its best you log a case with HP support. If your system is still under warranty or if you bought support along with the system, they will fix the problem for you.

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