So I was going to change out one the backup power supply that keeps my servers going when power goes out. So I powered down both my servers and swapped stuff out. My primary server came up just fine. The vmware server not so fine. Seems a drive decided to fail. I spent some time diagnosing and verifying that I had found the right drive to pull.

I change the drive out and expect to bootup to rebuild the data on the drive... No the controller won't read all the drives now. The drive not on the raid array won't initialize properly. Tries then stops, tries then stops. I spend more time removing drives from the chain and observing the behaviors. I eventually got all the drives seen and read and initializing by the controller. I attempted to boot up but now the system doesn't seem to want to boot from the OS drive at all. So this morning I left the array to be rebuilt and hopefully I'll be pull the virtual machines out and load a fresh OS....

Let this be a lesson to anyone planning to work with older scsi hardware. Always make a sarafice to the scsi gods no matter what the task involving a computer with scsi drives.