Solved: RS2WC080 Raid5 - all drives listed as Foreign Unconfigured Bad. Did I lose all my data???

bmauk · ‎07-31-2015

After a power outage, the Web Console 2 lists all my drives as Foreign Unconfigured Bad.

I am using controller RS2WC080, with 5 WD 1TB drives in RAID 5 config on a single virtual drive.

Is this recoverable?? Did I lose all my data??????

Please help!

/b

bmauk · ‎08-02-2015

Figured it out! Wanted to post my answer in case it help someone else one day...

I may not be 100% accurate in my representation, but basically the configuration is written to both the controller and to the drives.

So here's what I did:

I flipped all the drives from "Foreign, Unconfigured Bad" to "Foreign, Unconfigured Good".
Scanned the Foreign configuration, verified that it was correct
Accepted the configuration
Ran consistency check

And that's all it took. Data is back, array is Optimal, and im breathing easy.

whew.

/b

bmauk · ‎08-02-2015

Figured it out! Wanted to post my answer in case it help someone else one day...

I may not be 100% accurate in my representation, but basically the configuration is written to both the controller and to the drives.

So here's what I did:

I flipped all the drives from "Foreign, Unconfigured Bad" to "Foreign, Unconfigured Good".
Scanned the Foreign configuration, verified that it was correct
Accepted the configuration
Ran consistency check

And that's all it took. Data is back, array is Optimal, and im breathing easy.

whew.

/b