Hello,
I recently put some new hard drives in my xserve. It was previously setup with 3 80gb hard drives raided together giving my only 80gb of storage space. I popped in 3 500gb drives, and attempted to do a software RAID during the OS X server install, but ran into some strange issues. Sometimes only 1 drive would show up, the next time it might be a different drive, but still only one, sometimes all three drives would show up and sometimes just two (this all being in Disk Utility within the install DVD). I gave up on RAID and decided to just install on a single drive. Everyone went OK and now that it is up and running all three drives show up and have not disappeared since the installation. I have a strange problem when booting however, I get the folder with an exclamation mark when booting. The server eventually boots, but it stalls on the folder with exclamation mark for some time before booting. I’ve tried re-selecting the startup disk in system preferences, but the problem continues. Any ideas? There isn’t much on the server yet, so I have no problem wiping it out again.
Thanks,
Tim
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