Areca 1210 Drive Failed

[mhutcheson]

Let me first start off by saying that I have little experience with RAID controllers. I have a good hardware background but don't deal with servers that much. My company has a development server that was setup before I entered. It has an Areca 1210 setup in a RAID 5 with four 250gb drives. We had drive 2 fail last week - finally got the new drive in today. I figured all I would need to do is replace the drive for it to be rebuilt. I powered down the system and replaced the drive and powered it back on. I checked the status and the drive is shown as "Free" but the array is still "degraded". What do I need to do to get drive 2 to rebuild?

I should note that I did have to reboot after the failure and login to the BIOS to reset the admin password so that I could disable the beeper. The event log showed an attempt at a rebuild and also stated drive 2 as failed.

Thanks.

 

[houkouonchi]

If the array is just degraded (doesn't sound right if two drives failed unless two separate arrays) just set the drive to a hot spare and it should start rebuilding.

 

[novadude]

If the array is just degraded (doesn't sound right if two drives failed unless two separate arrays) just set the drive to a hot spare and it should start rebuilding.

drive #2

anyways, set the new drive to hot spare or tell the software to rebuild using the drive and it should get moving.

 

[mhutcheson]

I'm using a clean drive, so that was my question - did I need to make it a hot spare to get it moving? I'll try that and see what happens.

 

[mhutcheson]

I just created the hot spare and it started the rebuild right away - thanks for the help!

 

[houkouonchi]

Ah I took that as two drives (I guess I read it a bit quick). Usually it will automatically rebuild (when swapped while the system is running hot-swap) but if swapping the drive when the machine is off I have had to set the drive to a 'hot spare' to get it to rebuild before in the past.