Resolving Xserve Hard Disk Issues

Xserve is the 1-U rack-mounted Macintosh server computer provided by Apple Inc. Initially, it featured display adapter, optical drive, one or two PowerPC G4 processors and up to four disks configured as RAID 1 or 0. At present, Xserve runs on two quad-core Xeon processors and in Xserve Cluster Node model, this can run without optical drive or display adapter, which makes it appropriate to be used for applications like web server and file server.

Xserve´s hard disks are prone to performance degrade issues because of continuous operation though the physical access to the server doesn´t get always affected and the user can still access the server. In such situations, user may need to reinitialize or format the disk as a solution, so it is required to backup all the data. However, if the backup fails, Mac Data Recovery will be required.

In order to resolve the Xserve hard disk issues, this is required that monitor and keyboard must be connected to the server.

• We first need to log into Xserve and open Disk First Aid, which is a utility that can be used to verify the structure of HFS or HFS+ formatted hard disks as the first step. The utility is located in /Applications/Utilities folder.

• Next, we need to check the erroneous volume. However, if it is required to check the startup volume, the server should be started from Installation CD.

• We can then verify the volume intactness by clicking Verify.

• If Disk First Aid encounters any issue, we need to answer ´y´ to any prompted query. Disk Tab will then try to correct the issue.

• Repeating the above process for different errors encountered will correct the issue. However, if the same sequence is observed in prompted errors, we need to format the hard disk as the last resort. But, this is recommended to carry out formatting, only after backing up the data or else Mac Recovery applications will be required in case of no or incomplete backup.

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