Recent content by chickenlittleIT

Because I am not being given approval to do so. This is an old nas box that we are wanting to phase out anyway. Honestly the IT department is the red-headed step department, but thats a whole other story. So im stuck trying to make lemonade out of rotten lemons. And they want it made yesterday...

do you believe a recreation of the raidset/volumeset with no init would help at all?

Unfortunately this was something i came in to. My guess as to why this was done is that they used to be a windows company and onlly had so many drive letters to use.So i am stuck with this mess for now.

Unfortunately I dont have the resources to backup the disks. I might be shot but i went ahead and did a level2rescue. which placed all my drives back into 1 raidset00. but the volume was not showing up.So i activated the raidset and now my volume shows up but is failed as i somewhat expected...

Areca Bios shows Member Disk Channels are all sequential for the original raidset 00

Is it possible to pull blocksize and stripe size from the areca bios? I will work on gettting this info from the original nas provider if it isnt there. I can get the drive layout from the areca bios i believe. Sad to say, but no i dont have a place to copy my drives off to. BIOS V1.17b FW...

So I received some email alerts with errors from my NAS. After looking into it, my data was not available any longer. Next I looked into the areca and noticed 2 drives failed(raid6) (raid degraded). Then I thought ok I will replace a drive and it should rebuild then hopefully data will show up...