Recent content by Raris

Well, a buddy and i managed to get both of them working by updating firm/boot/bios/mbr and uefi, using an ancient EFI only AMD system. It appears to be the 1.56c firmware is NOT compatible with UEFI based motherboards, even with CSM off/legacy etc, no matter the combination of settings. Both...

Hello all, long time no see. I come here seeking wisdom and guidance getting two Areca RAID cards operational on my systems. Thus far, neither machine can interact with either card. These have been physically installed, Device manager sees them, but i cannot install drivers with the same...

PM'd you. I have one 3TB on hand, ARECA in JBOD and making uncompressed copies of each drive at the moment. I have another 3TB drive on the way.

Thank you all for your input. The array was RAID5 with a hot spare, all specs below. I had copied all the specs, minus drive serial numbers, on a piece of paper and left it taped inside the PC case, just in case i needed it as i do now. I did find out via phone that my ex gf's brother DID in...

As ARECA has yet to get back to me regarding data recovery, i am posting this here in the hopes that someone can help me recover my data from my 8-disk RAID array. I am offering $50 via paypal to whomever can guide me through getting my data back. My machine had suffered a power problem...