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
: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
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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
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Tim Lider wrote:
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?
I would go a bit further and say the original drive *probably* isn't bad,
just got
Thanks guys. Is there an easy way to wipe that first 25 MB under Windows?
I don't have access to a Linux system at the moment.
Tim, I've been running a RAID 5 in my HTPC for about 4 years now and do find
it fairly simple. However, there is a high level of stress when something
goes wrong,
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
Thanks guys. Is there an easy way to wipe that first 25 MB under Windows?
I don't have access to a Linux system at the moment.
I don't know of a way, but you can quickly download a bootable iso of
linux and use that.
I popped it into a Win7 system and when I opened the disk management dialog
it asked if I wanted to setup the drive with either MBR or GUID. I choose
MBR, created a new volume, then deleted it.
That tells me the drive is working just fine and should suffice to re-set it
for the RAID, no? I can
Brian,
By now you have suggestions from smarter RAID-folk than me.
I use an old server with a 3-drive RAID5 array.
(I now use 2 hot spares!)
My array has gone degraded 3 times in the past.
In each case, replacing the 'suspect' drive has allowed the RAID
controller to fully rebuild the array.
I
drop...
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I popped it into a Win7
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