Another RAID 5 saga
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:57 am
Current setup is 3x1.5TB Seagates (CC1H) w/t Adaptec 3085 controller. I was having problems with drives dropping from the raid (which I attribute to 1.5TB not being supported well by the card) so I ran the SeaTools Long DST on two of the three drives on a different computer. The RAID computer was powered off for a few days but now when I plug the drives back in, only one drive is recognized as being part of the RAID, the others showed up as optimal but not members of the logical drive. I don't have that much experience with RAIDs and the data was not super important so I decided to delete the logical drive and planned on recreating it using the "Skip initialization" option. I tried that but it gave me an error saying something about no free space avail and then failed to create the logical drive.
Now all three drives are hooked up via my motherboard's ICH10R controller and I'm trying to create a virtual raid using R-STUDIO. I have no idea what any of the options are supposed to be, except for the stripe size of 256kb. I've been looking everywhere trying to find drive order offset etc... but no luck. I selected the defaults and ran a scan but the only partition that was green showed up starting at 128.08MB which didn't seem right to me, does that seem legit to anyone else? All the jpegs I tried to open show up as blocks of random pictures (drive order? stripe size?) Anyone have any suggestions? I'm ready to be done with this Adaptec card, and move everything to my new Areca.
Thanks,
Tim
Now all three drives are hooked up via my motherboard's ICH10R controller and I'm trying to create a virtual raid using R-STUDIO. I have no idea what any of the options are supposed to be, except for the stripe size of 256kb. I've been looking everywhere trying to find drive order offset etc... but no luck. I selected the defaults and ran a scan but the only partition that was green showed up starting at 128.08MB which didn't seem right to me, does that seem legit to anyone else? All the jpegs I tried to open show up as blocks of random pictures (drive order? stripe size?) Anyone have any suggestions? I'm ready to be done with this Adaptec card, and move everything to my new Areca.
Thanks,
Tim