Upgrade to 1.49 firmware (all 4 files), then go post on the 2cpu Storage forums and wait for Jus to respond. Take the new, replacement drive and put it in another box and run DBAN on it to clear off the Areca signature in case you need it.
Just upgraded my 1230 with an 1880ix-16. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:54 PM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Need some expert RAID help with a degraded array > > I am having problems with the RAID array that holds all my media. It is a > RAID 5 array with 8 1 TB drives, hosted on an Areca 1220 controller. I have > about 6.2 TB of music, movies, TV shows, and photos on there. > > On Friday I got a message that the drive on channel 3 had failed and the > array was degraded. I got a replacement drive today, powered off the > machine, inserted the replacement drive, and powered up. I went into the > RAID management software, set the new drive as a hot spare, and it started > rebuilding. I watched it get to about 9% done and then went away and did > something else. > > Coming back, I saw that the RAID management software now listed channel > 3 as failed again (the new drive). Puzzled, I popped the old "failed" drive > into my other machine and it spun right up. I was able to format it and see it > in windows no problem. > > I powered off the machine, re-attached the old drive, and powered it back > on. During boot, the RAID card BIOS says that no RAID array is detected. > Now is where I start to get scared. I power off, put the old drive back in, > and power on. Now it detects the array, still in degraded state, but says that > Channel 4 is the bad drive. I did not change any cables around. > > Advice on what to do? I really, REALLY do not want to lose this array and all > my data. It would take me a long time to recover it all. At this point I am > concerned that maybe the RAID card itself is bad, or maybe some bad > cables, or a bad power supply who knows. But with a RAID 5 array that > already has a bad drive, I am hesitant to start troubleshooting that might > cause another drive to fail and I lose everything. > > I guess an option would be to build a completely new system using another > storage architecture, like unRAID, which is what I was planning to do in > another year. That's really the only way I can think to get my data to safety. > But I don't want to spend that money/time now if I can at all help it. > > --- > Brian
