Recent content by Rhogorn

In lieu of mirroring all the drives, I recorded the raid configuration and drive order then deleted the raidset. I recreated it with no-init in read only mode in the drive order listed and now using r-studio to full scan the array for all files and plan on pulling the ones i need to the new...

I meant to ask, the 14th drive (the one that was being migrated into the array), that one isn't important and I can use it to mirror another drive, yes? I thought I would need 14 drives...just wanted to confirm.

Okay, I've started acquiring more drives, what's the best method of mirroring the drives? Is r-studio's image tool acceptable? I'm assuming I'll have to mirror them in a different computer so the areca card doesn't flip out?

unfortunately no; no one i know in close proximity even has 1 3tb drives if it comes down to it i may hold off recovery to acquire some drives to mirror the current setup, but it's definitely not in the budget atm i did not address anyone specifically as i didn't know whom to request but that...

I contacted areca the 21st and I've yet to get a response. I do not have 13 spare discs, sadly. I do have enough spare storage laying around to store the data from the raid if i was able to access it, though

So during a migration from 13 to 14 drives in a raid 6 array, I inserted 2 new drives into the computer (to be used later). About some time later I noticed my file server rebooting about every 5 minutes. I plugged up a monitor to see what was going on and noticed the raid firmware timing out and...