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Supermicro Server MB + Areca 1880i RAID card.
Installed WinServer08 on boot drive (Micron P300 100GB) connected to onboard Intel HBA. After install + all updates and a bit of testing to make sure everything looked like it was working, did a shutdown and then installed an Areca 1880i + 6 C400 512GB. Started Server up, installed latest Areca drivers (fw was already up to date), and management software. Using Areca mgmt software, I created RAID5 with 5 disks and 1 for hot spare RAID set + new RAID Volume.
So here's where I'm hoping someone might have a clue before I go in Monday and waste a ton of time redoing everything again from scratch. RAID is read-only. If I go into disk manager and try to initialize the new logical RAID disk, disk manager will error and fail to initialize the disk. it sees the logical disk, but can't initialize it.
If I use Diskpart from the command line, I can see and select the logical RAID disk, however attributes says the disk is readonly. Even after i run command "attributes disk clear readonly" on the disk and it comes back with "successful" in diskpart, the very next attributes check shows the disk as still read only. (this pattern of issues was the same even after reboots, removing and reinstalling RAID card WHQL drivers, etc.
Just in case it was the Areca mgmt software screwing up. I did a reboot and went into the RAID card's BIOS and created the same RAID setup from the RAID BIOS utility. Same read only issue..
I'm kind of stumped. The only reference to why it's being set to read only might be because of some built-in SAN policy, however I have found no instructions on altering these policy values.
So what I was planning on doing Monday (please stop me if I'm wasting my time) is to have the RAID card installed, setup, and RAIDset ready to go before I actually the OS instead of setting it up after I have already installed the OS. Barring this doesn't work, then I will try an LSI card.
Just hoping someone else might have run into this.
Thanks in advance for any clues.
Installed WinServer08 on boot drive (Micron P300 100GB) connected to onboard Intel HBA. After install + all updates and a bit of testing to make sure everything looked like it was working, did a shutdown and then installed an Areca 1880i + 6 C400 512GB. Started Server up, installed latest Areca drivers (fw was already up to date), and management software. Using Areca mgmt software, I created RAID5 with 5 disks and 1 for hot spare RAID set + new RAID Volume.
So here's where I'm hoping someone might have a clue before I go in Monday and waste a ton of time redoing everything again from scratch. RAID is read-only. If I go into disk manager and try to initialize the new logical RAID disk, disk manager will error and fail to initialize the disk. it sees the logical disk, but can't initialize it.
If I use Diskpart from the command line, I can see and select the logical RAID disk, however attributes says the disk is readonly. Even after i run command "attributes disk clear readonly" on the disk and it comes back with "successful" in diskpart, the very next attributes check shows the disk as still read only. (this pattern of issues was the same even after reboots, removing and reinstalling RAID card WHQL drivers, etc.
Just in case it was the Areca mgmt software screwing up. I did a reboot and went into the RAID card's BIOS and created the same RAID setup from the RAID BIOS utility. Same read only issue..
I'm kind of stumped. The only reference to why it's being set to read only might be because of some built-in SAN policy, however I have found no instructions on altering these policy values.
So what I was planning on doing Monday (please stop me if I'm wasting my time) is to have the RAID card installed, setup, and RAIDset ready to go before I actually the OS instead of setting it up after I have already installed the OS. Barring this doesn't work, then I will try an LSI card.
Just hoping someone else might have run into this.
Thanks in advance for any clues.