I've been on the phone to HP Tech Support and would like to thank Fiona Molloy's efforts so far.
I'm in the process of upgrading a G1 ML370. Originally had 3 18.2GB drives RAID5. have added 3 more 18.2GB drives and created a new logical drive - table as follows
No the extra drives were installed on friday (it's now tuesday!) and the array controller insists that the 4GB logical drive is expanding, logical drive 2 is ready for expansion and logical drive 3 is ok.
Trouble is Windows 2000 Server won't boot anymore and stops on mup.sys when you try safe mode. If you wait long enough there's a BSOD with 'boot_device inaccesible'
All firmware is up to date but the latest SmartStart I have is 5.20 and I cannot launch the Array Configuration Utility it just hangs on detecting array 0 of 1. the Array Diagnostics Utility starts just fine and tells me what the array controller does at POST..... anyone recovered from a scenario like this?
Regards
Ifan
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that would be great - might just give me more info which is what I need.....
As an aside, support are now thinking there's a hardware failure on the backplane, but the ADU that I have is also quite old and may not be reporting all errors...
After changing the SCSI Backplane and still no better, I decided that a week was enough time to wait.
I attempted to upgrade the firmware on the drives but the utility would hang as soon as I hit enter in the selected drives, I was fearing a faulty array controller so tried the erase utility.
Two of the original drives immediately came up amber. I ran the firmware utility again and hey presto - all drives are now current and green!
So I guess it was a combination of old firmware and possibly the fact that it was so full that I couldn't restart Windows after adding the new drives.
I'm just rebuilding now - so glad it's a stand alone AD server!
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