> > I'm reacting to nothing more than 20 drives, no documentation and beeping: > > 1) Are the beeps POST codes? > > http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm No, I woke up to it beeping, but it POSTs fine. I think the beeping was probably coming from the Highpoint card indicating array failure. It no longer beeps, but it also won't pick up any drives. > > 2) Before making any physical changes I'd start by drawing an > accurate picture. Exactly what cables go to exactly what drives. Put a > label on each drive & each cable (masking tape/black pen, etc.) so > that if you do disassemble things you have a chance of getting it back > together later in the same configuration. > Good idea. > 3) If I thought it was the High Point I'd likely just remove it from > its slot and try booting again. (Assuming it's not needed to boot.) > > 4) It's not clear to me from this email exactly what's required (if > anything) in terms of RAID to make machine boot but if I could boot > from nothing but what's attached to the MB then that what I'd be > trying to do first. With 20 drives you could have a power supply > failiing and the system isn't getting enough power to run 20 drives, > etc. Minimize as much as possible. > > 5) If you get to where you can boot then you should run smartctl on > each drive looking for any info. However I would understand if 20 > drives over a bunch of years means not all drives support S.M.A.R.T. > > 6) Once you get it booting I'd run a check of any RAID that's included > at that point to ensure it hadn't been damaged and then look to add > things back in. > > Good luck! > > - Mark The machine will boot fine from what I can see, but I am concerned with disconnecting some drives and letting it boot because it might result in a degraded array assembling simply because I did not reconnect the drives it was looking for when I remove the highpoint from the picture. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
