At the moment I have the following problem:
When I look in the bios of the Adaptec 2400a (By pressing Ctrl A at bootup)the first drive of my aray is missing:
(0,0) Missing Compl
And the status of the array is: "Degraded"
The systems boots normally into Windows 2000 and everything works fine.
My Question is: How do I get the drive back in the bios of the controller without loosing any data? (Does the Raid 5 still work at this moment?)
I have experienced simular problems before.
The first time the status of 1 of my drives was "failed". I replaced it with another 60 GB drive, deleted the raid 5 array end created a new one (unfortunately I lost all data in that proces). Then I tested the "failed" drive and it worked perfectly fine.
The second time I had one "failed" drive and one completely missing drive. The status of the array was death. When I deleted the array and created a new one (this time without replacing the failed and dissappearing harddrives), all the drives where the again and the status was "optimal" for all drives.
I don't think the drive is defect this time (Not any of the drives was with the former problems). But I would really like to know why the drives dissappear or get a "failed" status and how I can solve the problem. I have the latest bios version for the Adaptec 2400a (It was allready in there).
Strange thing is that Windows is still booting and working properly. The other 2 times Windows could not be booted anymore. Update! Windows doesn't boot properly anymore.
> Webmail Solution : 09/05/02 01:55:01 ho21893
>
> Greetings from Adaptec,
>
> I am responding to your issue with the ATA RAID 2400A.
>
> You have to shut down the system, replace the failed drive with a new one (same model & same size). Start up and press Ctrl A to go into the BIOS of the card. In there you > should found that the status of the RAID is degraded. Just highlight #0 2400A and expand it. Highlight the new drive and press Alt + A (action), choose Make Hot Spare. After the > system recognized the hot spare, it will automatically start the rebuild. The status will change to Rebuilding as well. Until 100%, then restart your machine and you should directly > boot to the OS.
>
> Hope this can help.
>
> Regards,
> Technical Support
> Adaptec
I don't think this is the solution, because the harddrives where perfectly ok last time (And I think the drive will be this time). Is the controller itself the problem?
When I look in the bios of the Adaptec 2400a (By pressing Ctrl A at bootup)the first drive of my aray is missing:
(0,0) Missing Compl
And the status of the array is: "Degraded"
The systems boots normally into Windows 2000 and everything works fine.
My Question is: How do I get the drive back in the bios of the controller without loosing any data? (Does the Raid 5 still work at this moment?)
I have experienced simular problems before.
The first time the status of 1 of my drives was "failed". I replaced it with another 60 GB drive, deleted the raid 5 array end created a new one (unfortunately I lost all data in that proces). Then I tested the "failed" drive and it worked perfectly fine.
The second time I had one "failed" drive and one completely missing drive. The status of the array was death. When I deleted the array and created a new one (this time without replacing the failed and dissappearing harddrives), all the drives where the again and the status was "optimal" for all drives.
I don't think the drive is defect this time (Not any of the drives was with the former problems). But I would really like to know why the drives dissappear or get a "failed" status and how I can solve the problem. I have the latest bios version for the Adaptec 2400a (It was allready in there).
Strange thing is that Windows is still booting and working properly. The other 2 times Windows could not be booted anymore. Update! Windows doesn't boot properly anymore.
> Webmail Solution : 09/05/02 01:55:01 ho21893
>
> Greetings from Adaptec,
>
> I am responding to your issue with the ATA RAID 2400A.
>
> You have to shut down the system, replace the failed drive with a new one (same model & same size). Start up and press Ctrl A to go into the BIOS of the card. In there you > should found that the status of the RAID is degraded. Just highlight #0 2400A and expand it. Highlight the new drive and press Alt + A (action), choose Make Hot Spare. After the > system recognized the hot spare, it will automatically start the rebuild. The status will change to Rebuilding as well. Until 100%, then restart your machine and you should directly > boot to the OS.
>
> Hope this can help.
>
> Regards,
> Technical Support
> Adaptec
I don't think this is the solution, because the harddrives where perfectly ok last time (And I think the drive will be this time). Is the controller itself the problem?
