Compaq 3200 manual Recovering Drives Configured for NetWare Fault Tolerance

6-10Installing the Operating System Drivers

Recovering Drives Configured for

NetWare Fault Tolerance

If you have chosen no fault tolerance for the drives connected to your Smart Array 3200 Controller and have configured NetWare mirroring or NetWare controller duplexing, perform the following steps to recover the data after a drive failure:

1.Identify the failed physical drive that caused the NetWare device to be deactivated. Record the device number and device name of the failed logical drive. For example:

NWPA [V503-A2-D1:0] Compaq SMART-2 Slot 8 Disk 2 NFT

Failure messages are recorded on the server console and also in the server error log file that can be viewed using the SYSCON utility (3.12) or the NWADMIN utility (4.x). You will use this information later to create a valid partition.

2.Load the INSTALL.NLM and select the Disk Options Mirroring menu. Select the mirrored logical partition that was affected by the drive failure (see Step 1). Record the device number and partition number of the operational logical drive in this mirrored group. This information will be used later to remirror the repaired logical drive. For example:

NWPA: [V503-A2-D1:0] Compaq SMART-2 Slot 8 Disk 2 NFT

3.Delete the unavailable (possibly out of sync) device from the Mirror Partition group. This device is unavailable due to the drive failure.

4.Record the drive bay location of the failed physical drive. The new physical drive must be inserted into this drive bay.

5.If the failed drive is hot-pluggable, Skip to step 6. Otherwise, schedule server down time, take the server offline, and power-off the unit.