Greg - I'm hesitant to do a firmware upgrade with a degraded array. Is there a specific reason to do the firmware upgrade?
--- Brian On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
