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Hi,
I installed the trial version of HDSentinel on my Windows 2012 server earlier and it appears to have borked one of my Raidsets/Volumes on my Areca 1882IX-12 (FW: V1.51).
11 out of 16 drives dropped from the card after the software was started with Device Removed/Device Failed/Time Out Error messages displayed in the logs.
I uninstalled the software, rebooted the server and activated all of the failed disks.
The issue being a 3 disk RAID5 array is now in a failed state and there are 2 raid sets with the same name.
One of them contains 2 of the original member disks and also has a missing device - but no volume set. The other has 3 disks present (1 original and 2 which were previously pass through drives). This raidset has the original volume set attached, but is in a failed state.
I assume the above has happened due to the Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding being enabled by default (I've subsequently disabled it).
I'd just moved 1TB of data to the array which wasn't backed up elsewhere (it's not critical, but will be a pain to replace), so ideally would like to recover it.
I don't have R-Studio, but quite happy to buy that if it helps the situation.
I've emailed Areca support, but still waiting to hear back from them.
I've seen a similar thread, http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1647898&highlight=areca+failed and that issue was resolved by running a LeVeL2ReScUe (then a SIGNAT and several Volume checks) - should I just do that or should I make an image of the disks first with R-Studio?
Thanks for your help
I installed the trial version of HDSentinel on my Windows 2012 server earlier and it appears to have borked one of my Raidsets/Volumes on my Areca 1882IX-12 (FW: V1.51).
11 out of 16 drives dropped from the card after the software was started with Device Removed/Device Failed/Time Out Error messages displayed in the logs.
I uninstalled the software, rebooted the server and activated all of the failed disks.
The issue being a 3 disk RAID5 array is now in a failed state and there are 2 raid sets with the same name.
One of them contains 2 of the original member disks and also has a missing device - but no volume set. The other has 3 disks present (1 original and 2 which were previously pass through drives). This raidset has the original volume set attached, but is in a failed state.
I assume the above has happened due to the Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding being enabled by default (I've subsequently disabled it).
I'd just moved 1TB of data to the array which wasn't backed up elsewhere (it's not critical, but will be a pain to replace), so ideally would like to recover it.
I don't have R-Studio, but quite happy to buy that if it helps the situation.
I've emailed Areca support, but still waiting to hear back from them.
I've seen a similar thread, http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1647898&highlight=areca+failed and that issue was resolved by running a LeVeL2ReScUe (then a SIGNAT and several Volume checks) - should I just do that or should I make an image of the disks first with R-Studio?
Thanks for your help