I need to retrieve data from an IBM PC Server 704.
We have this old IBM PC Server 704. It belongs to a contract company doing work for us and I have been asked to help. It will not boot up, during the boot process the following messages appear.
– No SCSI Boot Devices Found.
– Please insert bootable media.
I am assuming that one of the drives has failed. I thought that I could install a copy of NT on some free space and get it back up so they could retrieve their data. I have never worked with IBM servers before, not sure how to boot so as to access the drive array and install OS. During boot I see “IBM ServeRAID … 2.0..” and it says “CRTL + I to configure” which I do. From within the configuration I select “View Configuration” and It reports “no logical drives installed”.
I assume that the first drive in the array failed and that that drive contained the OS and was set as the boot device. Any ideas as to how I can retrieve any data that may be on the other (3) drives. I’m not sure what RAID level it had; I do have some spare drives for it.