[samoir]

ive just tested the drives using Disk Utility on a Mac Pro 8 Core and no problems.

Ive dropped them back into the Xserve. Using RAID Utility ive setup some basic JBOD RAID SETS and VOLUMES for each drive, and they mount as volumes on the desktop.

However as soon as the machine is restarted, the issue continues. Either one of the drives doesn’t show on Desktop or within the RAID Utility. I believe its got something to do with the Apple Hardware RAID card and the OS and the hardware RAID card not recognising the drives at the right time, so the OS believes they dont exist. Meaning: does the OS Startup and there is some hardware lag with the Apple RAID card, and so the delay is actually creating havoc with the drives appearing in RAID utility thus not mounting??

Any thoughts at all??

[samoir]

To answer your questions:
– the drives are brand new and in working condition.
– upon restart the RAID set shows up as Degraded and remains this way. I have only left it asay and hour or so, not days or anything, but the status doesn;t seem to change at all within an hour.

My process so far has been remove disks from 80GB SATA HD’s from the sled.
Put in brand new Seagate ES.2 Barracuda 1000GB drives. (server series drives)
Go to Raid Utility
Create new RAID set (Raid 1)
6 hours later the newly created RAID volume shows and is built.
No issues up to this point. (all lights green)

Now i reboot the machine

Then i get a yellow warning RAID set “Viable” (degraded).

From this point m not sure if i have to leave it for some length of time or start the process again ??

My gut feeling is there is some time lag between the server starting and the RAID hardware card detecting the drives, so it thinks there is an error. Maybe?

[samoir]

khiltd
Thanks for your reply. The RAID pdf you mentioned is the guide for an Xserve RAID (14 drive unit) which i don’t have).
The machine i use is a Xserve 1U with has 3x80Gb ADM’s and an Apple Hardware RAID card. The guide ive been following is this one [url]http://images.apple.com/server/docs/RAID_Utility_User_Guide.pdf[/url] but it gives me a drive error.

There are other posts on Google which say there might be some firmware on the Apple RAID Card itself that needs to match some firmware on the hard drives, there is nothing conclusive to say this is the case though.

I have 10 years experience with Apple desktop tower machines, but this is the first Xserve ive owned, so i don’t know if there is deviant firmware that prevents a customer from upgrading using after market parts, forcing the customer buy genuine Apple 1000GB ADM’s at 3 times the price!!

Would be great to know if anyone has swapped or replaced their hard drives in an Intel 1U Xserve, that has a Apple Hardware RAID card and what proceedure is used to do this.

cheers again

samoir

[samoir]

Does anyone know how to get the local network to resolve the domain name and to the website as well?
ie entering domainname.net.nz and getting the site?

Does anyone know if this can be done, if so how would i go about it ??

[samoir]

Yes under “Sites” ive set the domain name to be domainname.net.nz, and then under “Web Server alias” have put in http://www.domainname.net.nz

I’ve disabled “Performance Cache” for the site – the domain wasn’t resolving last night, but 14 hours later, ive checked from the alternative internet connection, and it works fine using either www or just the domain.

Is there any way, on the local network to get it so you can put in the domain name and it will resolve to the website as well?
Does anyone know if this can be done, if so how would i go about it ??

just one other thing …. thanks for your patience and great help so far !!!

[samoir]

Hi – thanks for your response.

Yes, I get served content on my local network for the following:

http://192.168.0.2/ [ the IP address of the OSX 10.4.8 Server ]
http://localhost/
http://zulu.local/ [ computer is called zulu ]

But not from outside of my local network. Ive tested this by using a different internet connection, both don’t work ie domainame.net.nz or http://www.domainname.co.nz don’t work.

Also, from reading another post on AFP, (something to do with Kerberos) the results of:
[b]scutil –get HostName [/b]
and
[b]hostname[/b]

are:

HostName: not set
and
zulu.local

[b][color=Olive]Does this mean anything ?[/color][/b]

I had been using OS X 10.3 Server and the machine was working sweet and I even was able to point multiple domains and different content which i was pretty happy about – and my confirmation that the PINHOLE on port 80 and on port 21 was working as it should.

Is the hostname thing the answer im looking for?? If so what should this be? domainname.net.nz ? or zulu? (server name)

Thanks alot – !!

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