Hi!
I decided to build a array in my server approx a week or so ago, because I finally got 4x 500GB drives.
Now, I set them up in RAID 5 with the provided RAID software on the Intel controller. Set it up just fine, and worked like it should. Now, today I had to turn it off to do some power measurements, I did so, but when I turned it back on again, I noticed it told me the array had "degraded". Now, I thought to myself that it couldn't be good, so I moved the computer back to it's place, and turned it on again. Now, the controller said the array had FAILED. I have 5 drives connected to the controller, whereas the SSD I use for boot is one of them, and the 4 remaining are 500GB drives.
Then, two of them said "RAID-disk", but the third one said Offline Member, and the fourth said Incompatible.
I took some google-searches, and found out I could try resetting all the drives to Non-RAID drives and then make a new array, as it would not hurt my data. I did, but the one that said "Offline Member" said Unknown error, and the Incompatible one didn't do anything. However, when I resat the computer, the two first drives as well as the Offline Member said Non-RAID disk (which tells me all the three first drives were reset to Non-RAID disks) However, the last one said incompatible still, and this is where I am now.
So, I've found tutorials, but I have a different problem. I do have three (four with the incompatible one) working, but I have no idea to set it up again with the fourth one being incompatible. I guess if I set up only the three providing me with approx 1TB of space, my data will be lost (as the prevoius array was 1,39TB)
I would highly appreciate help, as this would be good to get back. It's not life important, but as I deleted the music on the old drives, I will lose most of it.
Kristoffer
I decided to build a array in my server approx a week or so ago, because I finally got 4x 500GB drives.
Now, I set them up in RAID 5 with the provided RAID software on the Intel controller. Set it up just fine, and worked like it should. Now, today I had to turn it off to do some power measurements, I did so, but when I turned it back on again, I noticed it told me the array had "degraded". Now, I thought to myself that it couldn't be good, so I moved the computer back to it's place, and turned it on again. Now, the controller said the array had FAILED. I have 5 drives connected to the controller, whereas the SSD I use for boot is one of them, and the 4 remaining are 500GB drives.
Then, two of them said "RAID-disk", but the third one said Offline Member, and the fourth said Incompatible.
I took some google-searches, and found out I could try resetting all the drives to Non-RAID drives and then make a new array, as it would not hurt my data. I did, but the one that said "Offline Member" said Unknown error, and the Incompatible one didn't do anything. However, when I resat the computer, the two first drives as well as the Offline Member said Non-RAID disk (which tells me all the three first drives were reset to Non-RAID disks) However, the last one said incompatible still, and this is where I am now.
So, I've found tutorials, but I have a different problem. I do have three (four with the incompatible one) working, but I have no idea to set it up again with the fourth one being incompatible. I guess if I set up only the three providing me with approx 1TB of space, my data will be lost (as the prevoius array was 1,39TB)
I would highly appreciate help, as this would be good to get back. It's not life important, but as I deleted the music on the old drives, I will lose most of it.
Kristoffer
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