- May 30, 2016
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Hi forum
I have a Raid 6 with 8 disks (2TB each) and an ARECA 1220 ML controller that is running this hardware-based configuration. The Array has had some kind of big failure where 1 of the drives has dropped out of the array and the volume has dissappeared. From my reasearch, the array and volume information lives on the drives themselves and if nothing is further is written to the disks, recovery of a lot of the data shoudl be possible.
The Current Status:
1 disk is listed as FREE.
The RAID IDE slot says "failed".
The RAID array is "incomplete".
I have taken the drive that dropped out and made a clone in R-Studio.
The goal is to get the 8 disks in the array back together and the rebuild the partition manually.
Here I am at a cross roads and would love some input.
Which one of these two options should I try first?
OPTION #1
Take the drive that is listed as free and designate it a HOT SPARE. I would think that the Array would use it to fill the missing spot. BUT, would it start over writting data on the drive? Or would it recognize the array information the the drive?
OPTION #2
Delete the current RAID set that has 7 of 8 drives in it. Then using all of the same order and settings, manually re-create the array.
(After doing either of these, I will then try to re-summon the volume by making an new volume with the same settings but using the "no initialization" command.)
I have a Raid 6 with 8 disks (2TB each) and an ARECA 1220 ML controller that is running this hardware-based configuration. The Array has had some kind of big failure where 1 of the drives has dropped out of the array and the volume has dissappeared. From my reasearch, the array and volume information lives on the drives themselves and if nothing is further is written to the disks, recovery of a lot of the data shoudl be possible.
The Current Status:
1 disk is listed as FREE.
The RAID IDE slot says "failed".
The RAID array is "incomplete".
I have taken the drive that dropped out and made a clone in R-Studio.
The goal is to get the 8 disks in the array back together and the rebuild the partition manually.
Here I am at a cross roads and would love some input.
Which one of these two options should I try first?
OPTION #1
Take the drive that is listed as free and designate it a HOT SPARE. I would think that the Array would use it to fill the missing spot. BUT, would it start over writting data on the drive? Or would it recognize the array information the the drive?
OPTION #2
Delete the current RAID set that has 7 of 8 drives in it. Then using all of the same order and settings, manually re-create the array.
(After doing either of these, I will then try to re-summon the volume by making an new volume with the same settings but using the "no initialization" command.)
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