Onboard raid 0+1 issue

[Mr Bob]

I run an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard with four 74gb raptors in raid 0+1 via onboard raid.

Today, my computer locked up (with the constant beep sound), and I had to turn it off by holding the power button.

When I restarted, it said the raid array was unhealthy. I went into the config by pressing F10, and then saw that only 3 of the 4 drives were displayed. So I hit R to rebuild the array, and then it selected the 4th drive. When i restart, it keeps coming up with the same issue. When I view the array, it still shows 3 of the 4 drives.

Anyone familiar enough with the onboard raid? I don't mind taking out the array completely and just working with the two of the 4 drives, and worry about it all later. I just want to be back up and running again - I'd rather run without the array now, and fix it next week when I have time to mess around with it.

I don't want to lose my data, so please only reply if you actually are familiar with this onboard raid system.

Thanks

 

[Laputa]

Looks like you have an failed drive.

 

[Mr Bob]

All I had to do was format a new drive, exchange the bad one for the new one, rebuild the array, turn on computer, and then allow the computer to rebuild the array.

 

[Laputa]

Yes, that's the good thing about RAID 5 so long as you replace the correct bad drive. The worse thing that can happen was the 2nd drive might go down shortly after that. So you may consider saving a copy of the most important stuff just in case.

 

[practor]

Originally posted by: Laputa
Looks like you have an failed drive.

My thoughts to.


Ever seen a kitten in a ball of wool. To messy for me. Two HDD raid O, clean, sweet for me