Wednesday - Hey, my hard drive is in! Cool, I stay late at work to put the new hard drive in. I look at the new SCSI drive and, hmm.. odd... it's jumperless... I crack open the server and look at the drives that I currently have. Right between the SCSI cable and Power cable is where all the pins are, but again, no jumpers... The Cable is actually labled port 1, port 2, port 3, port 4 and it rns to our raid controller. I'm not to familiar with it but I guess it's reading the position of the drive off the position in the chain. I yank out drive 3 and throw the new drive in, takes about 15 minutes. Power on the server and it says "id10t error, you took out the wrong drive, take out slot 1 on scsi 3". Oops, my bad... I misread it... I take the server back off the rack, yank the new drive out of slot 3 put the old drive back and place the new drive in the slot 1. 15 minutes later I have it back together and power it on...
Same error...
I yank it down and think, well maybe it's reading the chain backwards, out comes the new drive, in goes the old drive to the first slot, out goes the last drive in goes the new drive. 15 minutes later I'm back on the rack and... Same fricken error...
Duh... It's a computer... it's labled 0, 1, 2, 3, not 1, 2, 3, 4... I pull down the server again and yank the second drive to put the new drive in, its the only only one I've got left so it's gotta be the right one. 15 minutes later I plug it back in and...
Same stinkin error!!!! Piece o' crap!!!!! 15 minutes later I've got all my old drives back in place and the server is up and running off the bad drives. Screw it, I'm going home for the night.
Thursday - Stupid server, stupid harddri... what the heck is this? More jumpers on the bottom of the drive (yeah, stupid me, I'm just used to seeing them on the back like IDE drives). Sure enough, it's clearly labled on the drive, slot 1, slot 2, slot 3, slot 4. I flip the jumpes for slot 3, find the correct drive in the server and yank it out. 15 minutes later I have the server back on the rack and...
SAME FRICKEN ERROR
I yank it down again and change the jumper settings on the new drive to match the settings on the old drive. 15 minutes later I'm back and WHY THE HELL AM I STILL GETTING THAT ERROR!!!!
Screw it, I'm calling there support center...
Oh, we sent you THAT drive, oh, the lables are printed wrong, so the jumper setting needs to be set to cover pins 5-6 AND 7-8, not just 5-6.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE LABEL ON THE DRIVE IS PRINTED WRONG?!?!?
Off the rack the server comes again... I pull the drive, flip the jumpers to what Tech support tells me and power it back up.
IT'S STILL NOT WORKING!!!!
Ok, it's time to turn to the all knowing oracle, the INTERNET!
It takes me a while to track down some schematics of the drive and they show that pins 1-2 and 3-4 are jumpered and not just 5-6 or 5-6 and 7-8. Off the rack the server comes again. I jumper the drive and...
OMG! It worked!!!!! The server is now regenerating the drive correctly...
I head home, and I'm a bit flustered... I've been at work too much the past 2 days and I've made at least 2 really stupid mistakes (not knowing to look at the right jumpers and not looking it up on the internet first). I'm a little lost in thought and I suddenly realize I'm in the wrong lane, in rush hour traffic, and about to hit the interstate south instead of north. I cut some guy off and... what the HECK am I thinking, I was in the correct lane, I just jumped onto south bound interstate... 15 minutes later (yeah, that number comes up alot) I manage to make the next exit ramp and get back going north...