RAID won't power down and then lost one of the 2 drives
I tried to power down my RAID before leaving the studio last night and it would not shut down. Both RAID drives were functioning when I shut down my G5. I didn't shut down power to the RAID for fear I might corrupt or lose some files.
Now one of the two drives (the lower one I think, labled Drive 2) is not mounting. I still haven't unplugged it. What should my next step be? HELP!!
Thanks in advance.
Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
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1) If you don't have a good backup policy, this should spur you to ensure you have one. You should ALWAYS have a backup policy, even with protected storage like Xserve RAID. Heck, large organizations have full offsite backups of their data on multi-million-dollar EMC Symmetrix and IBM Shark systems. Back up everything you can't afford to lose at a moment's notice.
2) Once you have a backup, you may wish to upgrade to the 1.5 firmware, if you haven't already done so.
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