RocketRaid 2320 raid 5 question

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brokenarrow03

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Alright im a little confused here...

I installed my RR2320 card into my XP64 machine, installed the driver, then added 5x1TB drives and created a RAID 5 through the RR bios. Once in windows I initialized the disk and converted it to GPT and now windows sees 3.8TB of space on drive E: (or whatever it is) which is all fine and dandy except when I remove a disk from the array drive E: goes away and the card beeps loudly indicating drive failure or whatnot. My question is why does the drive dissapear and will not reappear until after a reboot? All of my data is there when I reboot, but shouldnt the array still be accessible even with a disk removed?

 
Ive been using the array for over a month, at any random time i will pull a drive to "test" it and the drive coresponding to the array vanishes, then I put the drive back in and it still doesnt come back until the computer is rebooted
 
Log into the GUI or web interface. Do a rescan. Its in the device management area. After you do a rescan it will show the drive again. You don't have to reboot.

Also, turn off that annoying beep. I hate that on mine.

I've owned both the 2300 and currently the 2320. They're reasonable cards for the price. My 2320 is running a 6x1tb RAID 5 array now.
 
Your volume should still be accessible with 1 drive removed, something is definitely wrong. What does the BIOS show? Is the array degraded or is it invalid? I have two 2220 controllers and an array with 1 missing drive shows as degraded whereas it's invalid if multiple drives are missing.
 
leadman said:
Your volume should still be accessible with 1 drive removed, something is definitely wrong. What does the BIOS show? Is the array degraded or is it invalid? I have two 2220 controllers and an array with 1 missing drive shows as degraded whereas it's invalid if multiple drives are missing.
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So you want me to check with a disk removed what it says? When all disks are present the RR bios shows healthy raid 5
 
And when one drive is removed it should show that the array was degraded. The array is still usable, but you are running without any redundancy.
 
DriveEuro said:
And when one drive is removed it should show that the array was degraded. The array is still usable, but you are running without any redundancy.
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Exactly, and with 2 drives removed the status becomes invalid and then the volume isn't accessible to the OS any longer.
 
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