I have Ubuntu Is there anyone out there who has installed this on I have tried using the suggestions in this thread, but still not much joy.
Any ideas, or do I look for a hardware raid device that is certified for use on Ubuntu Or horror of horrors do I install Windows 7? Has anyone gotten any highpoint raid management tool to work with 2 different cards? If i switch them around, the other card appers. Tried contacting highpoint support and they told me it was impossible???? So if i want to manage the other card i have to change hptcfg and restart It's a server, it's not supposed to be restarted all the time.
Originally Posted by aykayross I have Ubuntu I finally did get ahold of someone about the 'disabled' status and they sent me a piece of software that supposedly would fix it, allowing for data retrieval. This is the email they finally sent: "Hello, Attached is a RAID recovery utility - it may be able to remove the disabled status. The disabled status is assigned in cases where multiple disks have failed, or the parity is faulty.
Try using the all of the original disks first including the drive originally listed as failed. It is a graphical utility that is similar to our controller cards' BIOS display. Instructions: The utility is as a compressed file. It's DOS based, and graphical - it responds to standard keyboard inputs.
It is capable of many different functions. Press down and select the "Save Array Info" option - this will save the current RAID configuration to the floppy - we can have engineering analyze this necessary default disk order is sequential - channels 1 through 4. Next, use the "Save MBR" option - as above, this will save the configuration data to the floppy.
This option will not delete actual, useable data from any of the disks, and will not damage the partition tables - it was designed specifically not to.
It is simply a way clear out any junk RAID data, or "disabled" status from the disks. This is similar to the card's BIOS menu. Do not worry about the Build options in this case. If it insists you select an option, choose "No Initialization". If not, you can always run this utility again - it can be used as many times as needed.
Do not attempt to rebuild or verify the array unless you can access the volume. I returned the damaged drive to the array, got my data off, then I swapped out the drive, remade the entire array and all is good for now Dew 2[H]4U.
Joined Jun 23, Messages 3, Obvious question, but did you initialize the new drive? In my particular case, yes, I did initialize the new drive in the bios - but it still did not allow the raid array to come out of the disabled status.
In past occasions, where I had a drive fail this was the fourth drive to fail with this rocketraid card , I was able to insert the new drive, initialize, and rebuild the array When I finally got tech support on the phone - which was only after I talked to their operator and told her I wanted to complain to customer service - they told me that probably two drives failed and they emailed the above email with the software to supposedly get rid of the disabled status.
When I finally reinserted the old drive, as per the instructions above, I was able to retrieve the non-backed up data. But when I took the old drive out, added a new drive it went back into the disabled status so I had to delete the array with the option selected of 'do not delete old array data' in their array management software. My WIN XP system did not recognize the array anymore after it was rebuilt took 8 hours and I had to reformat and repartition the array anyway!
I never have had any other raid card, so I don't know if this is a common occurance Steve Thanks a lot!!! I really appreciate your help!!! At least there is a chance to save my data.
I will come back as soon as I have any results what kind ever. Thank you again. Dew: Obvious question, obvious answer - yes, I did. But thank you very much for trying to help. Joined Jun 7, Messages On the Areca I have had several "failures", most of which were SATA cables coming unseated when I was in the machine, installing memory etc.
I Reseated the cable and it came right back up. I did have one drive actually drop out, I ended up putting it in another system, initializing it, putting it back in the Areca and it functioned fine for awhile then dropped off again. I ended up just replacing that drive. So I have had exactly one bad drive over 5 years with two different servers. The Areca is awesome about just taking the drives, inserted in any order on any channel, and determining which piece of the puzzle each drive is.
I even moved all of my drives from a to a ML and they were just recognized and booted right up. I have heard bad things about Areca tech support, but after 5 years of using two servers with and now one ML, I have never needed their tech support.
Hi John This was my first try, too but turns out to be a big mistake, because the data on the failed HD were gone. I took the failing HD, put it on the PC, did a format, and everything was fine. I put it back on the server and initialized it. HD was accepted. During rebuild failure again, and RAID broke this time. After hangup and restart RAID was disabled. I bought a new HD and initialized it. But this did't help at all. Release Notes. Please review this file for important information about compatibility issues and differences in operation that were discovered after our product manuals were created.
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