My RR2310 card has been beeping from time to time (took me a while to figure out what was beeping, tbh).
It appeared initially to be related to just the cables, given a wiggle the beeps would stop and my raid array (D: drive) would reappear on reboot.
Anyway, not ruling cable-failure out just yet, going (eventually) into the card's bios it shows that the array is status: critical. Sometimes it shows three cards initialized, sometimes just two. But its very intermittent, albeit increasingly frequent.
I'm surprised that any of the 3*320 western digitals are in failure, they're only about 2 years old, and hardly pushed very hard. About 30 days at 24/7 during that time, in about six batches of five spread equally over that time - highly project-specific. I ran windows chkdisk on the D: drive and, while it found some indexing failures, it reported the drive (array) as all good.
Other than that, used for analysis several hours a day. Fwiw, my 10k 160gb raptor has been heavily in use as a system drive, every day in the same period without error.
So I'd like to recover whatever cards remain salvable, but given the intermittent nature of the problem, I was wondering if anyone knows how I can tell which of the physical drives are still capable?
I'm thinking I should just remove all drives from the array, attach them to the mobo (IP35), and reformat and test them individually, but I'm hoping this is just a false alarm. Couldn't it just be that the cables are twitching out of place, and reporting a missing drive from time-to-time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Running Vista 64, and sorry for the long post, btw.
TIA.
mk17
It appeared initially to be related to just the cables, given a wiggle the beeps would stop and my raid array (D: drive) would reappear on reboot.
Anyway, not ruling cable-failure out just yet, going (eventually) into the card's bios it shows that the array is status: critical. Sometimes it shows three cards initialized, sometimes just two. But its very intermittent, albeit increasingly frequent.
I'm surprised that any of the 3*320 western digitals are in failure, they're only about 2 years old, and hardly pushed very hard. About 30 days at 24/7 during that time, in about six batches of five spread equally over that time - highly project-specific. I ran windows chkdisk on the D: drive and, while it found some indexing failures, it reported the drive (array) as all good.
Other than that, used for analysis several hours a day. Fwiw, my 10k 160gb raptor has been heavily in use as a system drive, every day in the same period without error.
So I'd like to recover whatever cards remain salvable, but given the intermittent nature of the problem, I was wondering if anyone knows how I can tell which of the physical drives are still capable?
I'm thinking I should just remove all drives from the array, attach them to the mobo (IP35), and reformat and test them individually, but I'm hoping this is just a false alarm. Couldn't it just be that the cables are twitching out of place, and reporting a missing drive from time-to-time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Running Vista 64, and sorry for the long post, btw.
TIA.
mk17