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    Areca 1882ix occasionally fails PCI bus test

    I went into the MB's BIOS and turned off all extraneous interrupts and all the extraneous ROM loads -- like from the Marvell RAID BIOS, the Intel PXE boot ROM, etc. I also disabled "auto turbo mode" and spread spectrum clocking. I also set the second PCIe slot to X4 mode (it was X2). I have...
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    Areca 1882ix occasionally fails PCI bus test

    It's an Asus P8Z77V-LE, the CPU is an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (fam: 06, model: 2a, stepping: 07). Here are the other chipset details. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon...
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    Areca 1882ix occasionally fails PCI bus test

    Anyone familiar with this? It fails with the return message "0xFFF" I have two 1882ix's in this motherboard (asus). It's a headless server and when this happens it hangs the boot process while it waits for a keypress before it will continue. Is there a way to bypass the "wait for keypress"...
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    Drive Irony

    I am not entirely sure, but in my experience ultra-tight bubble wrap and ultra-tight packaging seems to be worse than a little loose. The packaging ought to absorb some of the high-G shock -- If everything is very snug, the shock wave will just transfer with very little loss. It seems like if...
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    Areca Volume State Failed RAID5

    I know that this topic has been covered extensively, but my situation is not helped by that information. Maybe this is as simple as deleting the RAID, and re-creating it using the no-init option, but it seems to be a last-resort step, so I am trying to see if such a drastic measure is called...
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    Re-create using cli64?

    Does anyone know the exact steps for doing a raid set delete/re-create with no-init option using cli64 ? I can't see the option listed in either the rsf create (or in the vsf create). For the record, I have a "failed" RAID5 which happened when I unplugged the array without 'offlining' it...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    @GeorgeHR -- I believe that you missed the point entirely. The Areca controllers are being used for exactly what they were designed to do. I am using these to create RAID5 volume sets that are movable across a family of RAID controllers and which can be hot-plugged. All of this is well within...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    @Hammer! Assuming the offlined array is external via an expander, I believe that the only way to bring an offlined array back online is to power down the chassis and power it back up again AND you must wait until all the member disks are fully spun-up and stable before connecting the SAS cable...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    @houkouonchi: I have an old 3ware card & operating RAID5 from ages ago. The array has been running fine for all that time. I guess I should retire the whole thing. If not, I will try to save a copy of the DCB before it's too late :D So, once again, you have helped immensely, I have always...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    After much consternation, I was able to reconstruct the first failed array. I was able to figure out which disks should be in what order using rstudio and tracing through the MBR, the NTFS file system fragments and so on. It was painstaking work just like everyone said it would be. However...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    Practical question: When an NTFS filesystem is created, does it always reserve space for an "MBR"? that is the implication in the steps in R-Studio's docs but I am not sure if this assumes that the disk is a boot disk (array) -- none of my arrays are bootable arrays, but I didn't create them...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    w/r/t Hammer!'s question, I thought I would share Areca's strange answer. BTW, I do not believe that it is an accurate answer in any real-world situation. I know it is inaccurate my situation: First, you can see that Kevin (Areca) thinks I do not know how to ask a question. That makes him...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    odditory: This is "business critical" data, but not time sensitive. Originally I was in a huge time crunch, but now I am not. I have a few weeks to recover this data. The files are recordings from measurement instruments, they are large (30GB++ each). These instruments write to these arrays...
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    Very grateful for the reply. I'll give it my best shot and report back.
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    Areca RAID5 Fail-- need help desperately please

    In the end, I am still in need of some instruction on how to determine the original member disk order because the 1882's logs are not complete enough to show it. I have R-Tools and I have a non-RAID SAS HBA at my disposal. The OS is Linux. there are two RAID5 arrays that came up out of order...
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