It's an NForce2 NVRAID array (mirror) that's giving me trouble.
Long story about how I got here, but what's relevant is I accidentally selected a rebuild on a healthy RAID-1 Mirror. While I wouldn't expect it, it actually damaged the array. The NVRAID BIOS utility was crashing when I asked it to rebuild the (now unhealthy) array. To fix that I unplugged the Chan 0 drive, deleted the array from the Chan 1 drive, and even went ahead and deleted all the partitions from the Chan 1 drive. Then I was able to plug back in the Chan 0 drive and rebuild the array. The BIOS utility reported it as a healthy array. However when I exited the utility it wouldn't boot. It hung at 'Verifying DMI pool'. I cleared my CMOS, so now it still reports as a healthy array, but the BIOS gives the no system disk error when I try to boot off the array.
My Chan 0 drive is currently perfectly healthy and if I disable the raid functionality in the BIOS, I can boot of my Chan 0 drive just fine as an independant drive. Oddly, my Chan 1 drive doesn't appear to be a mirror in Disk Manager (ie it doesn't have the same partitions). So while the BIOS utility reports it as healthy, it doesn't seem to be an actual mirror.
I'd love to get the array up and running again, but I'd prefer not deleting everything off my one good drive (it's backed up to another computer already), but this seems fixable, even if the solution is evading me.
Thanks in advance!
--Nic
Long story about how I got here, but what's relevant is I accidentally selected a rebuild on a healthy RAID-1 Mirror. While I wouldn't expect it, it actually damaged the array. The NVRAID BIOS utility was crashing when I asked it to rebuild the (now unhealthy) array. To fix that I unplugged the Chan 0 drive, deleted the array from the Chan 1 drive, and even went ahead and deleted all the partitions from the Chan 1 drive. Then I was able to plug back in the Chan 0 drive and rebuild the array. The BIOS utility reported it as a healthy array. However when I exited the utility it wouldn't boot. It hung at 'Verifying DMI pool'. I cleared my CMOS, so now it still reports as a healthy array, but the BIOS gives the no system disk error when I try to boot off the array.
My Chan 0 drive is currently perfectly healthy and if I disable the raid functionality in the BIOS, I can boot of my Chan 0 drive just fine as an independant drive. Oddly, my Chan 1 drive doesn't appear to be a mirror in Disk Manager (ie it doesn't have the same partitions). So while the BIOS utility reports it as healthy, it doesn't seem to be an actual mirror.
I'd love to get the array up and running again, but I'd prefer not deleting everything off my one good drive (it's backed up to another computer already), but this seems fixable, even if the solution is evading me.
Thanks in advance!
--Nic
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