Highpoint RocketRaid 2680 (PCI-e)

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Hi,

Anyone got any experience with these?

I recently rebuilt my server, and added in all the hard drives ready to restore my backups, and the beeper on the card went off.

I thought this was the beeper on the mobo and it was the CPU overheat so I powered down the rig, and then rebooted to the bios to check temps etc.... Nothing. Then when rebooting I noticed in the highpoint bios/firmware that the raise drive "Fileshare" was showing as "Critical".

I went in, and as it was a an empty formatted drive on the array, deleted the array. I then created a new array using all 5 drives (previously I had it set up with 4 drives plus a hot spare) - I called that array "4tb_Raid5"

Now whenever I reboot it shows BOTH arrays and both of them are in offline status. I've deleted both arrays, but they both keep coming back! I can't get the array back "online" and it's starting to drive me up the flipping wall!!!

Any one any suggestions how I can restore factory defaults?
 
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Am now creating a bootable flash dish to upgrade to 1.1

This is madness! Why can't highpoint's software see my controller? It's installed and functioning!
 
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Built a bootable DOS USB "stick" which I built using this "how to"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/46707-ms-dos-bootable-flash-drive-create.html

Have downloaded the files from my second post, put them onto the drive, and then booted to it. I've then flashed the bios using:

Load.exe /c rr2680ls.v11

saving the old files and updating the config so that it only pauses for 3 seconds now.

On booting back up the Highpoint firmware shows 3 disks uninitialized, which is weird.

Initialized them and now booting to Windows..... Fingers crossed!
 
Appears not. still showing multiple raid arrays, one disabled, one critical. Have deleted both of them and set them up a jbod.

Fingers crossed that'll initialise each disk, so that I can at least see them in the OS..... or whichever one is not playing ball.
 
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Aha

Disk 2 is not showing as present in the array!

I have now physically unplugged it and am re-building using the web based tool. Fingers crossed that this was the reason why....
 
Array is still initializing...

Disk 2 was definitely the reason that the old array still showed. Not sure WHY it wouldn't delete, but my current hunch is that because the array hadn't fully initialized, data present on disk 2 was still showing another array was present - so initializing it fully should get rid of that.

I'm going to put disk 2, which is working fine, into another machine and then wipe it down, format it, then re-introduce it to the array and see if it's picked up OK.

If successful, I'll keep it as a hot-spare.
 
Array has initialized and is working fully. The lack of initialization on one disk meant that it retained the old array details and was showing up. Array is now working lovely.

Closed.
 
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