PE600sc + CERC 100/4 and Failed logical drive

[Tom Brown]

> One of my CoLo machines went offline last night during a backup. When I 
> inquired about it, the machine had appearently locked-up overnight. When 
> power-cycled, during the CERC POST, there was a series of messages to 
> this effect:
> 
> 1 Logical Drive in Host Adapter
> 1 Logical Drive Failed
> 1 Logical Drive Handled by BIOS
> 
> Then it goes on to say something to the effect that no boot device can 
> be found and presents the option to enter the BIOS or Reboot.
> 
> Up until this point, the machine had been running fine for more than 
> three years. No indication of failures or problems in the logs. Just 
> wham-o! Out of service. The Logical Drive is a RAID 5 array comprised of 
> three 40GB drives.
> 
> So my biggest concern at this point is whether or not the array can be 
> salvaged. I'm hoping that the "Logical Drive Failed" doesn't mean that 
> I've lost more than one drive, but until I get down there I won't know. 
> Can anyone give me a "best guess" as to what I'm going to find?

i am guessing but that sounds bad - generally it will say logical drive 
degraded or some other such rather than logical drive failed. I think 
perhaps you lost another drive at some point and didn't notice. Have you 
been running any RAID monitoring software?