Came home from a week of traveling to find my HTPC non-functional. Power supply failure. Swapped in a new power supply, and on reboot I get the dreaded constant error beep from my Areca 1220 RAID controller. And yep, the array is degraded.
I have a 8 x 1 TB RAID 5 array. The RAID config software says that the drive on channel 4 failed and that the array is in a degraded state. But looking at the HW info screen, it correctly identifies the HD attached to channel 4 with all normal readings and stats as "free". All of my data is there but I am anxious to get the array back to a normal state before something else bad happens. How do I recover from this? I don't see any notification that it is rebuilding the array. If I hit "volume set check" it says there is no volume to check. It says I cannot expand the RAID set while the status is degraded. Do I need to "modify" the array to confirm it only has 7 drives now, and then expand it? --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US
