Great.
Just when I wanted to go to sleep, this sucker killed my RAID array again. Browsing into a network share got my Vista workstation’s explorer window to hang (of course — what else should windows do but rely 100% on some network peer to provide data in a timely and reliable manner). I couldn’t close the damn fucking thing and had to kill explorer.exe. My compliments for not learning to write a usable file browser in over 20 years, Microsoft.
On the server it looked no better. Tried to browse to the shared folder, but of course, the window just hung. I couldn’t restart the server either (the hung window stalked me into the reboot screen), so I had to hard-reset it. Windows Server 2008 isn’t even worth the $0.50 media it’s pressed on.
After rebooting, the RAID array was gone. I couldn’t reactivate it.
Shutdown, reboot, one RAID disk functioning, two missing, two foreign disks. WTF?
Tried to reactivate missing disks - device not ready.
Tried to import foreign disks - warning, you will loose data if you proceed, bla bla bla. Shocked, but remembering that I had that before and clicking yes actually doesn’t destroy my data. RAID array resynching. All shared folders unshared.
As I’m writing this, my Vista desktop is completely unresponsive, because I tried to browse into one of the server’s administrative shares. This sucks major ***.
Nowhere in the Event Logs can I find anything that gives me a clue as to what is happening on this freaking server. I’m going to buy a 1 TB drive, copy my RAID array onto that, then install Gentoo Linux on the server, create a new (soft) RAID-5 with the old drives, copy the data back and be done with this. Suck my ***** Windows Server 2008.
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