Hello Brian, Your best bet is to replace the hard drive with another 1TB of the same size. Insert the drive into the RAID and it will rebuild.
Pretty easy, eh? Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:21 AM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Degraded RAID array question > > 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
