Raid 5

[vmor2626]

This is for an IBM x3650 server that crashed on a client, it is there file server. The previous tech who worked on this discovered that the physical drive in slot 0 of the array was bad, while the server was running in a degraded state the tech removed and reseated the physical drive in slot 7 of the array and now the server server on restart says there is no array and drives, the controller starts but the machine continually reboots.

Also the tech tried to reintialize the the array and I am not sure if all data is lost.

I would appreciate any assistance that anyoe might on how to retrieve the data and or reconfigure the raid on this server.

 

[drescherjm]

I would boot the system from a linux livecd and take a look at the contents of the array if it is seen.

Also when you go into the array's bios what does it say about the status of the array?

 

[odditory]

The previous tech who worked on this discovered that the physical drive in slot 0 of the array was bad, while the server was running in a degraded state the tech removed and reseated the physical drive in slot 7 of the array

Bad move. Sounds like the "previous tech" has no raid experience, to be "re-seating" drives on a powered-on array.

Also the tech tried to reintialize the the array and I am not sure if all data is lost.

That he tried to "reinitialize the array" doesn't provide enough information, as there are different ways to do it. If the person created a NO-INIT array then that's one thing and you can usually recover provided you matched the exact drive order and stripe size of the original array configuration, but if the raid controller performed a regular array initialize that means every sector was overwritten and the company hopefully has backups.

Before doing anything else and possibly risking more damage you need to get more details and find out exactly what happened.