CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 Practice Question
After a planned power-cycle of a rack-mounted file server, the system halts during POST and shows the message "1783-Slot 0 Drive Array Controller Failure". All eight SAS drive LEDs remain solid green and the out-of-band management interface reports no SMART errors on any individual disks. No logical drives are listed, so the operating system cannot boot.
Which of the following actions should you perform first to bring the storage back online with the least risk of data loss?
Boot to recovery media and update the operating-system storage drivers before rebooting normally.
Power down the server, reseat the RAID controller (and any attached cache module), then power up and retest.
Replace every disk and rebuild the array, assuming a simultaneous multi-drive failure.
Swap the physical order of the disks in the backplane so the controller rediscovers the configuration.