Areca 1120 + raid6 : raid set restored but 1 volume missing

Hi there,


Tonight, I've moved one of my servers to another casing. In it is an areca 1120 along with 8 spinpoint f1's (yes I know, bad choice won't do it again... ) in a raid6 setup.
On the raid set are 3 voluems: 0 , which is my /bot of 512MB. 1 , which is my / of 100gB, and /home of almost 5900GB.

After having changed the machine, 2 disks seemed to have been causing troubles (read errors), so I replaced both of them.


The raid set was degraded but got rebuilt properly:

Huh. rebuilding? But how many percent progress? Furthermore, the webinterface doesn't mention rebuilding at all.

So , it seems like I can't get my volume 3 up and running again. That's weird because it's on the same raid set as the other volumes.... which do behave fine.

Is there a way to restore this third volume? I've read about creating a new volume using the no init option, but that's my last resort since I'm afraid of breaking stuff.
Furthermore, it will take a lot of time I guess?

Anybody got a clue about:

1: Getting my third volume up and running again?
2: What did exactly happen?
3: How to take counter-measures to prevent this from happening again?


Cheers,

Boudewijn

Find the command that list the status of the individual drives.
It's weird that you've set it up with one array and multiple volumes. Unless you're running different OSs (I assume that's what the 512MB volume is for), with just Windows it's easier to manage the array with just one volume and create partitions instead.

Oh and there's nothing wrong with using desktop HDDs in a array with 8 disks or less. Just set disk read/write time-out to more than 60s, a workaround to drives without TLER.