Came across something interesting yesterday. I had someone call me with 12 out of 20 servers unable to detect their hard drives. I had sold him these servers, and he was calling me for tech support/guidance on the issue. I figured for sure it had to be an overlooked setting since that would be over a 50% failure rate.
Upon arriving at the datacenter, I confirmed his findings. All settings were identical, yet some servers could detect the drives on POST, and some could not. I tried new IDE cables, different settings, and finally swapped a drive sled into another server. The good server couldn't detect the drives either. It almost appeared as if...the drives had gone ...
