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Raid 5 Crash

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by fiscom3

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I walked into a situation where a RAID 5 setup with 3 Disks crashed.When I started the server I recognised it as a motherboard battery failure. Replaced the battery and received a no boot sector failure. I then found out that the techs had switched the hard drives around and did not know the original order. Then they changed the ROM order in the RAID utility. Is there any way to figure out the correct order of the drives?

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by tbragsda

If its hardware I would say its easy enough to try

0,1,2 1,0,2 2,0,1
0,2,1 1,2,0 2,1,0

Its only 6x trys.

If its software (I never understood why anyone would do) if 0 failed, you may be in bad shape.

by fiscom3

I have tried the different combinations allready with no success.The disks were marked, but they removed them and did not replace them in the same order in the original setup. Then then changed the order in the software setup...and the order which is recorded on the disk. I was hoping to find a way where I could look on each disk and find the boot sector and perhaps use cmdcons to repair it and boot into w2kserver.

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