n1ce_hat
08-19-2009, 10:23 PM
So story goes I have 4 almost identical Western Digital WD5000AAKS drives here, 500GB, 16MB buffer. I had put them in my fileserver as a RAID-0 stripe of 2.0TB and everything was swell. In Windows Home Server I was able to use it as if it were a 2TB (more like 1.8TB) hard drive and removing it from the data pool and quickly backing up files due to the striping. I have never had a problem with the drives, I even have more than just these 4 but they are in other computers, I really like these drives they love RAID. I was able to remove the disk from the drive pool completely and remove the disks, good.
Now the confusion. See before I took the hard drives out I went to the RocketRaid's BIOS and deleted the array, right? Then when the computer restarted I took a HDD out and put it in another computer, nothing. Doesn't even spin with power. Try it in the internal SATA ports, SATA card, USB, everything, no show. Not showing in Disk Manager or the like, not spinning up, no my computer, etc. So I put the drive back in the server, shows up perfectly in the RocketRaid BIOS shows up in Windows, it's basically back at home I can do whatever I want with it. Go into Disk Manager, delete the partition, create a new NTFS partition, and it shows up in My Computer. I take the drive and put it in the next computer it won't show up anywhere. This one particular drive when I connected it, it showed ~465GB unformatted space in Disk Manager. I format it and now a strange thing happens: it has 4 partitions now instead of the 1 I asked for. It's like [100GB unformatted][43GB unformatted][802GB drive ___][50GB drive F] what the hell!! The drive F even shows up in My Computer. The 802GB one is nowhere to be seen but the Disk Manager. I have no idea where it grabbed these figures (remember this is still in the same server the RAID0 was created. I go into the RocketRaid BIOS and it's just a plain jane legacy 500GB disk, although I did try creating a 'single disk' JBOD on the drive and then removed it because it didn't help. That's just one of the drives so far all 4 of them are doing the same thing. I just put one in a Dell Optiplex GX270 and nothing in the BIOS (do I need to jumper to 1.5gb/s??), tried it on a SATA -> USB adapter and get the same issues, shows up in Device Manager as a random HDD w/o a name, appears as though it can be safely 'removed' from windows but it gives you an error. Will show up fine in the server any day of the week.
Any light on the topic??
Now the confusion. See before I took the hard drives out I went to the RocketRaid's BIOS and deleted the array, right? Then when the computer restarted I took a HDD out and put it in another computer, nothing. Doesn't even spin with power. Try it in the internal SATA ports, SATA card, USB, everything, no show. Not showing in Disk Manager or the like, not spinning up, no my computer, etc. So I put the drive back in the server, shows up perfectly in the RocketRaid BIOS shows up in Windows, it's basically back at home I can do whatever I want with it. Go into Disk Manager, delete the partition, create a new NTFS partition, and it shows up in My Computer. I take the drive and put it in the next computer it won't show up anywhere. This one particular drive when I connected it, it showed ~465GB unformatted space in Disk Manager. I format it and now a strange thing happens: it has 4 partitions now instead of the 1 I asked for. It's like [100GB unformatted][43GB unformatted][802GB drive ___][50GB drive F] what the hell!! The drive F even shows up in My Computer. The 802GB one is nowhere to be seen but the Disk Manager. I have no idea where it grabbed these figures (remember this is still in the same server the RAID0 was created. I go into the RocketRaid BIOS and it's just a plain jane legacy 500GB disk, although I did try creating a 'single disk' JBOD on the drive and then removed it because it didn't help. That's just one of the drives so far all 4 of them are doing the same thing. I just put one in a Dell Optiplex GX270 and nothing in the BIOS (do I need to jumper to 1.5gb/s??), tried it on a SATA -> USB adapter and get the same issues, shows up in Device Manager as a random HDD w/o a name, appears as though it can be safely 'removed' from windows but it gives you an error. Will show up fine in the server any day of the week.
Any light on the topic??