I was thinking the same thing about the controller forgetting about the raid 5 array. I checked, you cannot create an array without initialising the disks. I will contact Adaptec support now and if no joy, reinstall everything. Thanks for the suggestions guys. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Virgin Mobile
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:19:39 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: Re: RAID Degraded On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ... adaptec 2200 raid card ... > Anyway when I boot using the adaptec cd, it says the RAID is degraded. > If I boot, I cannot pick up the raid. For the life of me I cannot find which > drives are faulty. Under properties it shows all 3 drives as operational > with no SMART errors. ... when I use the boot time configuration utility, > it doesn't pick up the raid 5 array although it picks up the drives when > I do a disk scan. It sounds like the controller has forgotten that your disks were once part of a RAID array. In other words, it's like you took a brand new controller, but then attached existing disks from another server. If that's the case, what you want to do is restore the controller's idea of what the array should be, without reinitializing anything on the disks themselves. I'm not familiar with that flavor of controller, but some controllers have the option to read array configuration/NVRAM/etc. from disk, or something along those lines. Check the manual for the controller to see if there's a way to do that. If there's no way to do that, see if there's a way to create an array without initializing the disks. If you can't find the manual, or the manual doesn't help, try contacting Adaptec support. I don't know if they'll help, but it's worth a shot. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
