ES40 CONFIGURING RAID no Control with SMOR

From: Jane Caldwell-Myers (jane@laurentian.ca)
Date: Fri May 11 2007 - 20:18:24 EDT


Hello
Here I am again ... attempting to configure hardware.
ES40 KZPCC-CE controller

I added 4 new 18G drives to a system in order to increase a RAID5. I added the drives while the system was still running, downed the system, started SMOR, I could see the new drives. I deleted the existing RAID5 and deleted one hotspare. When it came up the first time I could still see the RAID5. I did a Set System Config, brought the system down. Restarted SMOR. I had to do this twice before SMOR would actually start.

Now the Main Menu is open but I do not have any control. Nothing is showing up on the SmartRom Configuration window. I cannot use the alt keys to access any of the menu options.
6 of the drives halt the RED fault light on and the others are not lit at all.

I cannot tell what the system is doing.... if anything....
Any help would be greatly appreciated on this Friday evening.

Thanks
Jane Caldwell-Myers

Jane Caldwell-Myers
Computing & Telecommunications
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 ext 2150



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