Duplicate C: drive appearing

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Hello,

We had a strange occurence on a server yesterday. The server is a W2K server
running on a Proliant 580 G2 with a Smart Array 5302. There are 2 18GB
drives installed locally, and the drives are configured as a RAID 1 array on
the 5302 controller. This array is the C: drive in W2K, where the OS is
installed. The server has been running in this configuration for 2 years
with no problems.

Yesterday, a new physical drive mysteriously appeared in W2K, and assigned
itself the D: drive letter. This new D: was an exact copy of the C: drive.
My first thought was that the RAID 1 array had broken, so the OS was now
seeing the 2 physical drives separately, as opposed to 1 logical drive.
However, I checked the array controller, drives, and array in both HP
Insight Manager and the Array Configuration Utility, and everything was
reporting ok.

I rebooted the server, and everything went back to normal. Any ideas about
what happened?

Thanks!
Jeff
 
Did you install the rollup? If so this is the third time I've seen the issue
in these groups.

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891861

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hello,
|
| We had a strange occurence on a server yesterday. The server is a W2K
server
| running on a Proliant 580 G2 with a Smart Array 5302. There are 2 18GB
| drives installed locally, and the drives are configured as a RAID 1 array
on
| the 5302 controller. This array is the C: drive in W2K, where the OS is
| installed. The server has been running in this configuration for 2 years
| with no problems.
|
| Yesterday, a new physical drive mysteriously appeared in W2K, and assigned
| itself the D: drive letter. This new D: was an exact copy of the C:
drive.
| My first thought was that the RAID 1 array had broken, so the OS was now
| seeing the 2 physical drives separately, as opposed to 1 logical drive.
| However, I checked the array controller, drives, and array in both HP
| Insight Manager and the Array Configuration Utility, and everything was
| reporting ok.
|
| I rebooted the server, and everything went back to normal. Any ideas about
| what happened?
|
| Thanks!
| Jeff
 
Hi Dave,

Yes, we did install the rollup on Sunday on this server, as well as about 20
other W2k servers. This is the first server displaying these symptons. What
have you seen so far? Does this happen once and go away, or does it keep
popping up? Is Microsoft aware of this yet? Any info you have that you could
pass on would be great.

Thanks for you response!
Jeff
 
Here's the other threads. I was waiting for your reply. Now I'm going to
mention it in the private groups.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...nsubject:drives&rnum=1&hl=en#27842abfe55b4e9d

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...insubject:Issue&rnum=1&hl=en#65dfab9f69c36ac6

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi Dave,
|
| Yes, we did install the rollup on Sunday on this server, as well as about
20
| other W2k servers. This is the first server displaying these symptons.
What
| have you seen so far? Does this happen once and go away, or does it keep
| popping up? Is Microsoft aware of this yet? Any info you have that you
could
| pass on would be great.
|
| Thanks for you response!
| Jeff
 
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