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by hidden72
Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:48 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help
Replies: 10
Views: 28740

Re: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help

I was able to get the array partially up and running by imaging each of the individual physical drives and recreating the array through the Areca controller. Some of my data is corrupted, though, so I'm still working on figuring this out. I know the stripe size now (4k for this array), but I'm still ...
by hidden72
Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:31 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help
Replies: 10
Views: 28740

Re: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help

Areca's response is here:

"i am sorry, we do not have such information available for cutomers."

If you have any way to check with Areca, that'd be nice. Obviously, they're not interested in working with me.

Once I finish imaging all of the drives, I'll see if I can figure out if the Areca ...
by hidden72
Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help
Replies: 10
Views: 28740

Re: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help

Thanks for the quick response. I've opened a ticket with Areca to see if I can get that information. The information about scanning is helpful, and I will be sure to re-scan the images after making paramater changes. As a suggestion, you may want to give the user some type of notification when they ...
by hidden72
Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:37 am
Forum: RAID Recovery
Topic: Areca RAID6 Recovery Help
Replies: 10
Views: 28740

Areca RAID6 Recovery Help

Does anyone know which RAID6 variant/layout the Areca 1230 SATA controller uses?

The story, so far, my RAID6 array had multiple simultaneous failures over the weekend and it went completely offline. I know the order that the drives were originally in when they were connected to the raid controller ...