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    Stop raid 1 drive from showing failed on Areca controller

    I have an Areca 1211 controller. It is running a Raid 1 array. We had some kind of electrical hit and both drives failed. One drive is dead but the other one has some life. I can run the drive for maybe 5 minutes before the Areca controller fails the drive. Is there any way to stop the...
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    Areca Raid array failed!

    Thank you for your help. I have also posted over at 2cpu. The specific error for disk 5 was a reading error. I am in the process of imaging each drive. What a mess!
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    Areca Raid array failed!

    I was able to get the array back into a degraded status by telling the raid card to activate the failed disk on the drive that most recently failed (drive 5). I then installed 4 new drives. 2 to rebuild and 2 hot spares. The array contains two volumes. The first volume rebuilt correctly. The...
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    Areca Raid array failed!

    I have been thrown into a tough situation. We have a ARC1223-8i raid controller with a raid array and two raid 6 volumes. It looks like 3 of the 6 drives failed and have caused the volumes to fail. I don't have much experience with Areca controllers. I don't want to do any permanent damage to...
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    Areca 1220 Array repair

    I had a raid 6 array fail using an ARC-1220. My client tried to fix the problems and made it worse. The Raid 6 array used 7 drives. Drives 1,3,4,5,6,7,8. Drive 8 failed. Then the raid controller decided to remove 2 of the working drives in the array and created two other 1 drive raid 6 arrays...
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