while the rebuild on the #000DT was going on. I got ansy and decided to try putting in the vs#2 array drives (the one that wasnt showing up anymore unless i pulled/reinserted drives). (its strange too, because in the hierarchy, i can see the other two drives as being #000DT drives, but they dont show up in the listing for the raidset when viewed directly) Now its 'rebuilding' which is freaking me out, because if it was 9 drives and i'm 90% sure it was, i dont know what is going on with the data. he said to leave it in for now prior to this. i knew slot 4 was probably bad in the first place. i now have the #000DT raidset, but its only showing 7 members, with one failed (slot4). then issue the LeVeL2ReScUe and power cycle.

He told me to disconnect all drives except my 000DT array. I actually got through to Benjamin at Areca. again if i pull other drives that show 'FREE' and put them back in, suddenly i get them to show as various raid members, but then i end up with the jumbled/fragmented raid arrays. My one array 000DT shows 7 members but should be 9 i believe, which is strange. I did put them back in the correct order at this point. I do know that contacting areca either never results in an answer or take days and we have mission critical data on these drives (i'm not sure if there is a 3rd party tool, worst case, i could use to extract the data and restore to another massive drive somewhere)? all enterprise drives.Īny thoughts on what i can do to revive the broken arrays and the one thats missing. Nothing had changed in the past several months.

i've tried moving drives around in the supermicro chasis with no luck. things come back to where they were before, with only 'FREE' showing up in many places and the vs02 raidset gone again. you see #00DT listed several times.Īnd Raidset Vs02 shows up mutiple times as well. suddenly all show up as being raid members again. Just for fun i pulled each of the 'Free' drives while it was still on.

meanwhile i have like 5 free drives showing up. I end up showing #00DT as 4/7 incomplete. I pull those two drives out of the mix and bring the server back up. as they are each part of a different raid6 array. slot 15 (shows failed) and slot 4 (failed as well). Suddenly today, i get timeouts and read errors on at least 2-3 different drives all at once. Past few days i noticed some time out errors on slot 1, which isnt part of the issue here i dont think (i've tried pulling this particular drive). Raid Set #000Dt which is supposed to have 9 members total. (latest drivers) all the drives are in a supermicro 4U chassis with SAS/sata backplane.

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