The Southbridge Battle: nforce 6 MCP vs. ICH7 vs. ICH8

Notification, Handling And Rebuild Of A Degraded RAID 5

Be careful: If you reattach the faulty drive (ours obviously wasn't faulty), it will show up as a broken RAID 5 array (see the second array labeled "error"). You will have to delete the remnants of this array first...

... so it shows up as a free and working drive.

Now the drive can be used for the rebuild process, ...

...which initiates automatically.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.