Functioning drives reported as not part of RAID.

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Chipset; ICH10R

(I have a separate IDE boot drive)

6 drives connected to the motherboard in RAID 5.. A small misshap with my server. Installed new graphics card and now it boots.

Drives 0 and 5 were suddenly no longer part of the RAID according to the chipset. I'm 100% sure that they are ok, both physically and datawise.

There should be a simple app available to just mark their place manually and get everything up and running again.. Actually it should be an easy app to make completely automated as it seems to remember the actual serial-numbers of the different discs, and their place, in the RAID.

So far I have only gotten more problems by trying to protect my data by using RAID than I ever had using discs without any extra parity function.

Please please help.. I'm sure all my precious data is there, but I do not have the tools or knowledge to recover the volume without help.

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Kit installed: 9.6.0.1014User interface version: 9.6.0.1014Language: Swedish (Sweden)Intel RAID controller: Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/5 Series/3400 Series SATA RAID ControllerNumber of SATA ports: 6RAID option ROM version: 8.7.0.1007Driver version: 9.6.0.1014ISDI version: 9.6.0.1014

Device Information

Name: Array_0000Size: 11 446 GBAvailable space: 0 GBDisk data cache: EnabledNumber of volumes: 1Volume member: BrummNumber of disks: 6Array disk: JK1181YAJ2SD8VArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SGJVArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SL8VArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SWUVArray disk: JK1170YBHZW5MD:0Array disk: JK1181YAJ2SDUV:0

Name: Brumm

Status: FailedType: RAID 5Size: 9 539 GBData strip size: 64 KBWrite-back cache: EnabledSystem volume: NoInitialized: Yes Verification errors found: 0Blocks with media errors: 0Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 BytesParent array: Array_0000Number of disks: 6Array disk: JK1181YAJ2SD8VArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SGJVArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SL8VArray disk: JK1181YAJ2SWUVArray disk: JK1170YBHZW5MD:0Array disk: JK1181YAJ2SDUV:0

Disk on port 0

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: AvailableSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1170YBHZW5MDModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port 1

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: Array diskSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1181YAJ2SD8VModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port 2

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: Array diskSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1181YAJ2SGJVModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port 3

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: Array diskSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1181YAJ2SL8VModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port 4

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: Array diskSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1181YAJ2SWUVModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port 5

Port location: InternalStatus: NormalUsage: AvailableSize: 1 908 GBSerial number: JK1181YAJ2SDUVModel: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330Firmware: JKAOA28ASystem disk: NoPassword protected: NoDisk data cache: EnabledNative command queuing: Yes SATA transfer mode: Generation 2Physical sector size: 512 BytesLogical sector size: 512 Bytes

Disk on port Unknown

Port location: UnknownStatus: MissingUsage: Array diskSize: 0 GBSerial number: JK1170YBHZW5MD:0Model: ...

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Blah, thanks for no help at all.. If anyone else have this problem the only help I got was aquireing a program that is called "ZAR" (zero assumption recovery) and letting it run through everything and extract the files to a lot of external drives... For ZAR or a similar RAID recovery program to work you must resart the computer withou the RAID settings, so the program can access the discs individually.. The files opened at the time my computer crashed were damaged, but other than that it seems to be a full recovery.

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You were pretty lucky. I've tried around 10 different programs and haven't found one that has been able to recover my data.

Unfortunately I had a Raid 0 and Raid 1+0 array, and most programs will only find the Raid 0 array which of course is damaged.