Also RAID 5 missing after reboot; RA Utilities non effective

I am having a nearly identical problem as listed in the "RAID 5 missing after reboot; RA Utilities non effective" thread, with one or two small differences.
We shut down our Xserve RAID normally on friday, started it back up on Monday to find that one of the arrays was no longer there. RAID 1 is still working perfectly, but RAID 2 now has all the drives listed as spare. Tried all the tools in RAID Admin, but nothing has worked. At the advice of Apple tech support i updated the firmware to 1.5, swapped out controllers and cables, and tried using the Recognize RAID command in utilities. Nothing has worked. Apple recomended bring the drives to Drive Savers to get the data recovered. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Oh, also this raid was reporting a failed drive on friday before it was shut off, when powered back on the drive now claims to be fine.

Guess I got lucky.... After a reboot of the Xserve RAID, RAID #2 mounted again. Did my backups, shut it back down, and updated firmware to 1.5 with no problems. All seems good now.
Still wondering what happened.
It appears that drive #8 failed, and after the rebuild with new replacement drive, it seems as though the controller needed to be restarted too. The odd thing is, before the restart, #2 was acting like it had three new drives and no array configured at all. After the reboot, there is the RAID 5 array, no rebuild or anything - ready to go.
So here is my question:
How often does everyone reboot their Xserve RAID? should it be done periodically? Every 3 months? Every month?
Or is this just a hiccup with the parity rebuild, and nothing else to worry about, or even a firmware issue for the controller(s) that 1.5 may resolve?

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RAID 5 missing after reboot; RA Utilities non effective

I had 7 drives formated in RAID 5, after reboot, on my Xserve I can not mount RAID.
If I check with RAID admin, it seems everything to be o.k, but one event is strange:
RAID Controller 1 Fibre LIP; A Fibre Channel Loop Initialization Primitive (LIP) was detected. This often occurs when a new device is connected to the Fibre Channel network.
I did not connect any new devices... Same is with controller 2.
Every one of drives is described as "spare" but they were in RAID 5 all of 7 drives. If I check the arrays tab, no arrays are present.
If I try to Verify the array the "verify array" button is dimmed so I can not proceed.
Same is with Rebuild parity data or recognize array on both controlers.
Is there any possibility that I can establish RAID with all data?
I did not found any terminal commands for that...
Any idea? Any hint?

Hi Milos,
I was in the same situation few months ago. The same problems you reporting there, except of that, that my array dissapeared after successfull firmware update (and I had RAID3 on 6 disks). After unsuccessful technical support here I managed two trips of my disks to Apple engeneer in USA (I am from Czech Rep.) with no success. For the first time, they gave me back RAID 3 on 5 disks (not on 6 as I had before) and after second trip, thay gave me back 5 empty disks and the 6th one was damaged. So, my opinion as a man from Central Europe is, that we have no chance to have our datas back!
Problem was, that first 64 kB were zeroed (metadata with RAID schema are placed there). They tried (in Apple) to restore these metadatas on disks back, but as I said before, thay probably had a bad days.
Only one thing you can try is to find someone with XRAID at your place and try to put your disks there. May be your array will appear there, so you will be able to copy your data to some other disk. But if the first 64 kB on disks are zeroed ....
Anyway, please let me know if you solve your problem. I still have my disks untouched waiting for some miracle...

Cookies missing after reboot

I'm running windows XP and lately all cookies were deleted every time I reboot my computer. All cookies, and default settings are gone after reboot, I even switched back to IE8 and same issue noted on both IE8 and Firefox 3.6.12

Again and again!!!I reformatted my usb drive and created a brand new safepoint.
everyting was ok but two days after, the system has rebooted (no warning and I don't know why) and my Safepoints are missing in the dashboard.
Obviosly in the WDMyCloud desktop app the SP are visible... Frustating! :-(

Disk label missing after reboot

Everytime after reboot windows 2008 r2 , the secord disk label was missing? does anyone know the reason and how to slove it?
thanks a lot.

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Safepoint missing after reboot

Hello,after every reboot (balckout or similar) the MyCloud doesn't find anymore the previous Safepoint.
The WD usb drive attached directly to the MyCloud is properly "seen" in the dashboard (USB icon on the top right and listed on the Shares) but in the Safepoint tab there is anything.
I can only create a brand new one on the same USB drive. With the MyCloud application, I can see that the Safepoint still exists in the share folder created for the SF. If I need to recreate SF, it's not so sure!!! I have tried to unmount the USB drive and remount but without success... Thanks

Again and again!!!I reformatted my usb drive and created a brand new safepoint.
everyting was ok but two days after, the system has rebooted (no warning and I don't know why) and my Safepoints are missing in the dashboard.
Obviosly in the WDMyCloud desktop app the SP are visible... Frustating! :-(

Time machine all recent backups missing after reboot

I accidentally deleted an important file on my mac, and when i opened time machine, i discovered that my it couldn't be found wirelessly. The green light was still on the front of the device but my mac couldn't locate it.
I'm not sure exactly how long it has been since timecapsule made a backup, but i have a clear memory of it working about 3 months ago.
I rebooted it and now its running, and has backed up.
My problem is when i go into the "star wars screen" to view past backups, the only backups are from today and then next most recent are from July 2012 when i first bought the time capsule, everything else in between has disappeared. It definitely had 2013 backups.
Are the backups from 2013 still there and can't be seen, or have they been deleted permanently?

I presume then you upgraded to Mavericks?
It has a nasty habit of doing this.
If not on Mavericks please tell me what OS you are on.
Did you search by Finder.. after mounting the sparsebundle.. ie do not use Time Machine directly.
I know this is silly question .. but if you deleted the file is it in Trash??
If you deleted from Trash an immediate recovery is possible at times.. you will need to purchase a recovery software unless your are good with the CLI.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4070374
If it is deleted weeks ago then recovery is unlikely as the area of the drive will have been written over.

Server 2012 - iSCSI Virtual Disks Missing After Reboot

Hi guys. I recently had to reboot my Windows 2012 Storage Server. When it came up, the physical disks that the iSCSI virtual
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them? And why did the list of VHD files in File & Storage Services->iSCSI disappear in the first place!?
Thanks for any help!
-Warren

Hi guys. I recently had to reboot my Windows 2012 Storage Server. When it came up, the physical disks that the iSCSI
virtual disks reside on were visible, as were the VHD files, but the targets were gone. I looked in the File and Storage Services -> iSCSI but it says 'There are no iSCSI virtual disks', even though the VHD files are clearly there. When I try
to import the already existing ones, it gives me an error because that file already exists in the place I want to put it. These are very large VHD files so moving them to other storage and then re-importing them could take days, if not longer.
The iSCSI targets are still visible under 'View All Targets', but they are no longer associated with their VHD files. How do I reassociate
them? And why did the list of VHD files in File & Storage Services->iSCSI disappear in the first place!?
Thanks for any help!
-Warren
Replying to this question to answer it with a working solution. I'm not sure what the other replies marked as answers to this post are trying to answer, but they are completely unrelated to this topic. It appears they are describing a fix for a server acting
on the initiator side connecting to a target, not a server acting as an iSCSI target hosting LUNs. Very frustrating to say the least.
I ran into this problem over a weekend maintenance project where I rebooted a Server 2012 R2 File Server to enable some updates. When I logged back in, the iSCSI section was blank and my two existing iSCSI virtual disks had vanish. Now with that said the
underlying file system that the VHDX files were located on was intact. I tried to import them and got the same error that the path was already in use.
I first tried the fix mentioned lower in this thread where you move the VHDX file into another folder to change the path. That worked, but I wanted to figure out exactly why it broke and get my old file to load as it should. Now I don't know the answer to
"why" but I found a way to clear the existing information stored that is preventing you from re-mounting the existing iSCSI files without changing the path.
From this page, there are PowerShell scripts outlined to change iSCSI parameters from the command line.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/06/08/iscsi-target-cmdlet-reference.aspx
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$AllDisks | where {$AssignedDisks -notcontains $_} |
foreach {Remove-IscsiVirtualDisk $_ }
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Address Book missing after reboot

I done a complete reboot sometime ago of my iMac with transferring all of my archived files back to the computer.
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Cheers
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Did you use the Archive and Install method with the option to preserve User and internet settings? Or did you do a Clean and Install which would lose all of your personal files.
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Open Message Windows Missing After Reboot

I have experienced this issue after Apple Mail has to reboot for a variety of reasons, i.e. quit and reopen, reboot, basically any time Mail has to reopen. When it does, often many of the open message windows which I have open at the time are not reopened upon reopening Mail. It seems to occur whenever there is something which "interrupts" the reopenning process, as when I attempt to open another program, Safari for example, before Mail has fully opened.
While I do not want to keep too many message windows open at the same time, keeping the ones which I do have open works for me as an organizational tool, as in I need to address the open windows. But, if they do not reopen the next time, they get lost in my overly massive inbox.
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> controller. however enabling this option will cause the windows boot
> process very slow.
Your users won't notice it :-)
Anyway: To avoid the procmon thing, just think about "what" could delete
a service?
Group Policy Preferences comes to mind first, then computer startup
scripts and scheduled tasks. Grab a RSoP report on the affected server
and check what's applied at all.
Martin
Mal ein
GUTES Buch über GPOs lesen?
NO THEY ARE NOT EVIL, if you know what you are doing:
Good or bad GPOs?
And if IT bothers me - coke bottle design refreshment :))

SATA disk missing after reboot - Solaris 11 express

Using solaris 11 express, after full boot one SATA disk is unknown in cfgadm:
sata0/0::dsk/c8t0d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/1::dsk/c8t1d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/2::dsk/c8t2d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/3::dsk/c8t3d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
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Using solaris 11 express, after full boot one SATA disk is unknown in cfgadm:
sata0/0::dsk/c8t0d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/1::dsk/c8t1d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/2::dsk/c8t2d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/3::dsk/c8t3d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
sata0/4     unkown     connected     unconfigured     unkown
sata0/5::dsk/c8t5d0     disk     connected     configured     ok
I was able to get it configured sing these two commands:
cfgadm -x sata_port_activate sata0/4
cfgadm -c configure sata0/4
The disk seems to work find now but after a reboot it loses the disk again and is unkown. How can I get the system to "remember" the disk and configure at boot automatically?
Thanks for any help.

Soundcard suddenly missing after reboot.

Last night I installed and Arch and got pulseaudio configured with ALSA and everything was working perfectly. However, upon starting my computer today one of my sound cardsappears to have disappeared.
When I run aplay- l only card 0 appears. Card 0 is only the HDA Intel HDMI outputs. Previously Intel PCH was also visible.
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Hi MJ000111,
Thanks for your post.
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My Firefox Settings,Extension,Boomark,History is missing after i reboot my laptop. I am using firefox 4.0.1. there is no deefreeze.. how to fix that?

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I should have replied to my own thread really when I worked out what was happening. The code excerpt was slightly misleading in that I had already created another set of replicas on another disk. They were all created and the array was in a healthy state before the reboot. The problem was actually due to a known Solaris bug where the replicas are lost on a reboot if there are 8 or more state replicas defined.
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After rebooting the images returned to the wave on all spaces - huh, that's weird... So I reset them.
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I was having the same issue with background images. Every time I restarted, back to the waves...
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1) Booting to the safe mode
2) do a normal reboot
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