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Re: disk order. I have identified the part of the Areaca controller metadata which defines the disk order 0000250: 0000 0000 0100 0000 0200 0000 1000 0000 ................ The highlighted block changes for each disk and is 0000 on the disk which is definatly number 1 (It has the mbr and...

I've got a clone of all the disks, taking a look at the start of the first disk in a hex editor, there appears to be areca controller metadata on the disk, so it's looking hopeful that the array may still be functional. What should I do next?

Best option: encrypt the data with your own software* before writing it to a drive, it doesn't matter what happens after this point, your data is still secure no matter what the drive does. *Cryptography is HARD don't so it yourself, use a tried and tested library eg openSSL to do it for you...

I've looked here: ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/OldProducts/ARC1220/ but the greatest firmware version is 1.49 is there somewhere else that I can get 1.51/1.52 from? Don't know if this will help, but this is the diagnostic report from the DR company I am certain about the...

Date-Time Device Event Type Elapsed Time Errors =============================================================================== 2015-02-02 18:29:47 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On 2015-01-24 10:03:52 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On 2015-01-24 09:55:57 RS232...

I'm struggling to get into the box from here; think my dyndns is out of date. I'll post output when I get home. The drives /were/ in order 1-4 down the cage, I cannot 100% garuntee this is still the case. I've not plugged the drives back in since I got them back from the DR company, before I...

Is there an easy way to get this from the CLI? I'm 99% sure its an arc-1220 don't know about the firmware version - how do I find this (from the cli if possible) The remaining good drives are samsung spinpoint's of various guises. Probably. They were stacked in an 3->4 bay converter in...

I had a 4 disk raid 5 array setup on an areca hardware controller and attempted to migrate it to a 5 disk configuration, part way through the process, the new disk failed. I shut the machine down to minimize any data loss issues while a new disk arrived. I also ordered 2 new disks to backup the...