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I have a Highpoint rocketraid 1640 and it appears to have lost the array.
I had 4x 300GB drives in a 900GB RAID5 array and on reboot this morning the array is broken.
All the drives are there connected and working but at startup (on the cards bios screen) drives 1+4 show in the first array window and the state as "broken" then in the next window drives 2+3 show and the array "broken", so all are connected and recognised but the array is broken and will not function.
I need to get this array up and working and as it was a RAID5 array I thought fault tolerance was ok and I have only got about 2/3 of the data backed up ... another lesson learnt ...more backups and raid0+1 next
I am tempted to try switching the drives ports on the cards to see if that does anything and if that does nothing re-flashing the cards bios, but at the moment I am a tad worried to do anything.
Does anyone have any experience of these cards or similar problems with other cards .... is it possible to recover my data or have I lost it?
Thx
Chris
I had 4x 300GB drives in a 900GB RAID5 array and on reboot this morning the array is broken.
All the drives are there connected and working but at startup (on the cards bios screen) drives 1+4 show in the first array window and the state as "broken" then in the next window drives 2+3 show and the array "broken", so all are connected and recognised but the array is broken and will not function.
I need to get this array up and working and as it was a RAID5 array I thought fault tolerance was ok and I have only got about 2/3 of the data backed up ... another lesson learnt ...more backups and raid0+1 next
I am tempted to try switching the drives ports on the cards to see if that does anything and if that does nothing re-flashing the cards bios, but at the moment I am a tad worried to do anything.
Does anyone have any experience of these cards or similar problems with other cards .... is it possible to recover my data or have I lost it?
Thx
Chris