I have a RAID 5 (12x3TB) array that is no longer showing for me. I'm pretty sure I bumped a drive power cord on the array when I was removing and reinserting a system drive, causing that drive not to power up. I've since reconnected the power cord on the drive, and even though all the drives show up in the web manager the Raid Set and Volume are missing. The drives are all listed now as "Free".
If I run "LeVeL2ReScUe" I will get a Raid Set listed, but the OS does not see it.
Running "LeVeL2ReScUe" originally showed the Volume State as "Normal"... but after leaving the machine on for a few hours now I get "Need Check".
I've been reading through the forums and it seems like this is a common problem that often can be fixed, I'm just not sure which command I should issue first...
- Should I continue with "LeVeL2ReScUe", or should I use just plain "Rescue"?
- Should I try and activate the Raid Set?
- Should I try and create a RAID Set with the exact settings?
Any help would be very appreciated.
This is an Areca 1880xi-12
There are 12x3TB HDD's in RAID 5
The stripe is 128
I have the latest FW/BIOS/etc installed.
If I run "LeVeL2ReScUe" I will get a Raid Set listed, but the OS does not see it.
Running "LeVeL2ReScUe" originally showed the Volume State as "Normal"... but after leaving the machine on for a few hours now I get "Need Check".
I've been reading through the forums and it seems like this is a common problem that often can be fixed, I'm just not sure which command I should issue first...
- Should I continue with "LeVeL2ReScUe", or should I use just plain "Rescue"?
- Should I try and activate the Raid Set?
- Should I try and create a RAID Set with the exact settings?
Any help would be very appreciated.
This is an Areca 1880xi-12
There are 12x3TB HDD's in RAID 5
The stripe is 128
I have the latest FW/BIOS/etc installed.