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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
Maybe, if you are real lucky, when you two pull your heads out and realize you are wrong, I might tell you what you did wrong...
Others, if you want to ignore them, and do it right, feel free to contact me for help.
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Look, if you're as reasonable as you say you are, and as busy as me, I'm sure you'll agree that this is pointless to argue over a message board.
So I'll start over. I will just recall what has happened thus far.
Bought new drives. Took out all old drives except drive 1.
Plopped in a new drive into slot two.
Started the server, waited ten minutes, logged in and verified everything was recognized correctly as far as drive size and what not.
Shut down server. Removed old drive from slot 1, put new drive that was in slot 2 into slot 1.
Put another new drive in slot two, turned on server.
Waited some more, logged in, verified drive size, all looked good.
Tried plugging third drive in (hot), didn't work. Green LED didn't even come on.
Rebooted server, everything was fine. Rinse, repeat for fourth drive.
Created a RAID 5, didn't get any weird messages, but it took 5 days to resync.
When it was done, tried moving a file to it, and it took forever. Also, I noticed spikes in network utilization. Looked at the logs, and saw all of the errors which I then posted here.
I also did more research on the errors and the only thing that was even close suggested a driver issue with the new drives and the OS.
Broke the raid apart, did a clean install. Resync only took 3 days this time. Still same result though.
Took all the drives out but one, plugged them into my windows box, used disk manager to completely wipe them, and put them back into the snap server one by one the way I described before. Same result, and the log said it was trying to rebuild the RAID.
Took all drives out again. Installed server 2003 R2 on one, plugged it into the snap, wouldn't boot. "Disk read error". I went into the bios and disabled watchdog. No dice.
Went back to Guardian OS V3. It's in there now, with all drives, asking if i want to do a clean install, reinstall, et cetera.
I have a new version of Guardian OS (5), that I got a while ago and was to busy to mess with at the time. Problem is, it's zipped and password protected and I forgot the password and lost the email that had it.
So, again, I am a grown up and I'll eat crow all day long if I did something wrong. I asked for help, got a set of instructions and followed them to what I thought was a T.
I could have left it the way it was (with the errors in the log), but it was very slow, and it just isn't right. I don't like to do things half assed, and it just isn't right. I'm a firm believer in doing a job until it's done right, and done completely. Half assed work tells a lot about a person, and I refuse to have it associated with my name. I'm not trying to be arrogant at all, but that is why I continually get job offers.
So anyone that has any info for me I'd be appreciative, or anyone that says, "hey moron, you missed step 6 and that is why it doesn't work", I'll laugh and say, "oops, I was a moron, thanks for the missing piece".