Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 rev 2.1, latest BIOS
Chipset: AMD SB770
Drives: 2x 500GB Samsung HD501LJ
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
I have a problem where one of two drives in RAID 1 array repeatedly loses it's assignment to the array. Normally the drive is 1 of 2 in the array, but now it's state is single drive for some reason and drive 2 of 2 remains in the array and array status is "Critical" (obviously). The drive that loses it's assignment is reported as "Healthy" and Windows sees it, and Disk Management sees the partitions. SMART status says good.
AMD RAIDXpert user interface gives me an option to rebuild the array, choosing the "single drive" which was formerly from this very array. So I rebuilt the array yesterday, today it lost the drive assignment again and it's a single drive + broken array with one remaining drive ("Critical"). Considering it has now happened twice I would like to know why this is happening because from what I've read rebuilding arrays is always very taxing on the drives, so rebuilding the array every day would probably not be productive.
Both RAIDXpert interface under Windows and RAID BIOS utility concur on the status of the drive assignments.
I have three of these motherboards and this is the first time I have a RAID problem on it, RAID 1 normally works well for me. This particular build is 6 months old. No, I can't test with another board because that would require me to destroy the RAID setup on another machine.
A picture is worth a thousand words...
BIOS RAID utility array status:
BIOS RAID utility physical drive list:
AMD RAIDXpert interface physical drive list:
AMD RAIDXpert interface array status:
I need help fixing this in such a way that drives STAY assigned to the array. What's going on here, why is the first drive losing it's assignment to the array???
Note:
AMD's Catalyst driver distribution service is a piece of junk... All three of my machines use the same RAID driver, so it's doubtful that it's a driver issue.
Chipset: AMD SB770
Drives: 2x 500GB Samsung HD501LJ
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
I have a problem where one of two drives in RAID 1 array repeatedly loses it's assignment to the array. Normally the drive is 1 of 2 in the array, but now it's state is single drive for some reason and drive 2 of 2 remains in the array and array status is "Critical" (obviously). The drive that loses it's assignment is reported as "Healthy" and Windows sees it, and Disk Management sees the partitions. SMART status says good.
AMD RAIDXpert user interface gives me an option to rebuild the array, choosing the "single drive" which was formerly from this very array. So I rebuilt the array yesterday, today it lost the drive assignment again and it's a single drive + broken array with one remaining drive ("Critical"). Considering it has now happened twice I would like to know why this is happening because from what I've read rebuilding arrays is always very taxing on the drives, so rebuilding the array every day would probably not be productive.
Both RAIDXpert interface under Windows and RAID BIOS utility concur on the status of the drive assignments.
I have three of these motherboards and this is the first time I have a RAID problem on it, RAID 1 normally works well for me. This particular build is 6 months old. No, I can't test with another board because that would require me to destroy the RAID setup on another machine.
A picture is worth a thousand words...
BIOS RAID utility array status:
BIOS RAID utility physical drive list:
AMD RAIDXpert interface physical drive list:
AMD RAIDXpert interface array status:
I need help fixing this in such a way that drives STAY assigned to the array. What's going on here, why is the first drive losing it's assignment to the array???
Note:
AMD's Catalyst driver distribution service is a piece of junk... All three of my machines use the same RAID driver, so it's doubtful that it's a driver issue.
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