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Bands-Online Steve
Hi guys!
I'm having some problems with my RAID configuration, and was
wondering if anyone could help? Here are the details of my setup:
OS: Windows XP Professional
Motherboard: ASUS
RAID Type: RAID 1 (mirroring)
RAID Details: SiI 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.27
I have two 120GB Maxtor hard disk drives, of type 6Y120M0.
For about two years now, my computer has been successfully running a
RAID 1 mirroring setup. On a few occasions (especially if I turn my
computer off without shutting down), I've had the usual RAID warning
when I boot up (the one that suggests you press CTRL + S or F4 to enter
the RAID utility) to tell me that my drives are out of synch. I've
always solved this by entering the utility and choosing "Rebuild
Mirrored Set". I then perform an online rebuild (which runs in the
background while I continue to use my PC), and don't see the warning
anymore on boot up.
However, I recently started getting the warning, but when I try to
rebuild the mirrored set, I get "You can not rebuild", but that's
all. I don't get any information as to why this is. The system
appears to still be reporting two SATA hard drives. If I choose
"Resolve Conflicts", I'm told that "No Conflicts exist".
Strange!
I'm guessing that one of the drives might have developed a fault, but
have no idea how to prove this. Is there some kind of diagnostic tool I
can run to learn more about the nature of the problem, and to find out
whether one of my drives is faulty? I've considered deleting the RAID
set and starting again, but have no idea how to go about this (other
than choosing "Delete RAID Set"), and I don't want to lose the
information on my hard drives. (I do have a backup, but using this
should be an absolute last resort.)
Any help as to how I can get my RAID setup working again would be
gratefully received!
Thanks,
Steve.
I'm having some problems with my RAID configuration, and was
wondering if anyone could help? Here are the details of my setup:
OS: Windows XP Professional
Motherboard: ASUS
RAID Type: RAID 1 (mirroring)
RAID Details: SiI 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.27
I have two 120GB Maxtor hard disk drives, of type 6Y120M0.
For about two years now, my computer has been successfully running a
RAID 1 mirroring setup. On a few occasions (especially if I turn my
computer off without shutting down), I've had the usual RAID warning
when I boot up (the one that suggests you press CTRL + S or F4 to enter
the RAID utility) to tell me that my drives are out of synch. I've
always solved this by entering the utility and choosing "Rebuild
Mirrored Set". I then perform an online rebuild (which runs in the
background while I continue to use my PC), and don't see the warning
anymore on boot up.
However, I recently started getting the warning, but when I try to
rebuild the mirrored set, I get "You can not rebuild", but that's
all. I don't get any information as to why this is. The system
appears to still be reporting two SATA hard drives. If I choose
"Resolve Conflicts", I'm told that "No Conflicts exist".
Strange!
I'm guessing that one of the drives might have developed a fault, but
have no idea how to prove this. Is there some kind of diagnostic tool I
can run to learn more about the nature of the problem, and to find out
whether one of my drives is faulty? I've considered deleting the RAID
set and starting again, but have no idea how to go about this (other
than choosing "Delete RAID Set"), and I don't want to lose the
information on my hard drives. (I do have a backup, but using this
should be an absolute last resort.)
Any help as to how I can get my RAID setup working again would be
gratefully received!
Thanks,
Steve.