Hey guys i need some input,
Ive got a 4TB SATA2 external raid device with 4 1TB Western digital drives. I am using the Silicon Image 3132 controller for this RAID (It came packaged with this MicroNet external raid)
Im trying to create a RAID 5 with these 4 drives, but drive number 4 always produces an error and the group creation is aborted. I pulled the drive from the array and used it as an internal drive in my workstation. The drive partitioned and formatted just fine. I ran checkdisk, no bad sectors or errors. I then loaded the drive with about 300GB of data and ran checkdisk again, the disk had some orphaned files and checkdisk was able to fix that...
So the drive appears to work fine other than the orphaned file problem. It just will not work with this RAID for some reason.
I switch the drive to bay number 3 in the micronet array and the error still appeared at that specific drive, so I don't think anything internally in the RAID controller is broken or a driver/software problem..
My question is, should i just RMA this "bad" drive to Western digital or what since it doesn't appear to be "trashed".
Error message from log file while drive is in bay 3:
RAID group/path/target 0:0:2, Sense Data 70:00:0B:00:0 (ScsiError)
Create aborted, Group 0
Member 2 (Path ID = 0 Target ID = 2 dropped from group 0 "RAID5"
Error in bay 4:
RAID group/path/target 0:0:3, Sense Data 70:00:0B:00:0 (ScsiError)
Create aborted, Group 0
Member 3 (Path ID = 0 Target ID = 3 dropped from group 0 "RAID5"
thanks, andy
Ive got a 4TB SATA2 external raid device with 4 1TB Western digital drives. I am using the Silicon Image 3132 controller for this RAID (It came packaged with this MicroNet external raid)
Im trying to create a RAID 5 with these 4 drives, but drive number 4 always produces an error and the group creation is aborted. I pulled the drive from the array and used it as an internal drive in my workstation. The drive partitioned and formatted just fine. I ran checkdisk, no bad sectors or errors. I then loaded the drive with about 300GB of data and ran checkdisk again, the disk had some orphaned files and checkdisk was able to fix that...
So the drive appears to work fine other than the orphaned file problem. It just will not work with this RAID for some reason.
I switch the drive to bay number 3 in the micronet array and the error still appeared at that specific drive, so I don't think anything internally in the RAID controller is broken or a driver/software problem..
My question is, should i just RMA this "bad" drive to Western digital or what since it doesn't appear to be "trashed".
Error message from log file while drive is in bay 3:
RAID group/path/target 0:0:2, Sense Data 70:00:0B:00:0 (ScsiError)
Create aborted, Group 0
Member 2 (Path ID = 0 Target ID = 2 dropped from group 0 "RAID5"
Error in bay 4:
RAID group/path/target 0:0:3, Sense Data 70:00:0B:00:0 (ScsiError)
Create aborted, Group 0
Member 3 (Path ID = 0 Target ID = 3 dropped from group 0 "RAID5"
thanks, andy