I just upgraded my RAID 1 storage set of HDDs (not the boot drive) from two 250MB to two 1TB drives within their hot-swappable enclosures. I did a hot swap of one drive to see if my RAID controller (Sil3512 PCI card) would allow me to expand the partition, but it did not, it just rebuilt the 250MB partition on the new 1TB drive
So I powered down, put both TB drives in, booted, reformatted, and recovered data from a backup drive. Then the RAID controller dropped that first drive from the set. I removed/reinstalled, swapped drives between the drive bays, reformatted, but it still kept dropping that drive from the RAID set.
Thinking there was something wrong with the drive, I removed it and connected directly to the mobo, booted, up, and it came up just fine.
I put the original 250MB drives back in the RAID set and they worked just fine.
I even swapped cables between the SATA enclosures and the RAID PCI card. Still no luck.
What could be causing the controller to keep dropping a drive that appears to be otherwise functional? Did I mess up the drive by first hot-swapping it into the set even though it seems to work properly as a standalone drive?
Windows XP SP3, 2.5GHz AMD Athon XP, 4GB RAM,
Sil3512 PCI RAID controller, Kingwin SATA hot swap enclosures, 2x Hitachi 1TB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB buffer HDDs.
So I powered down, put both TB drives in, booted, reformatted, and recovered data from a backup drive. Then the RAID controller dropped that first drive from the set. I removed/reinstalled, swapped drives between the drive bays, reformatted, but it still kept dropping that drive from the RAID set.
Thinking there was something wrong with the drive, I removed it and connected directly to the mobo, booted, up, and it came up just fine.
I put the original 250MB drives back in the RAID set and they worked just fine.
I even swapped cables between the SATA enclosures and the RAID PCI card. Still no luck.
What could be causing the controller to keep dropping a drive that appears to be otherwise functional? Did I mess up the drive by first hot-swapping it into the set even though it seems to work properly as a standalone drive?
Windows XP SP3, 2.5GHz AMD Athon XP, 4GB RAM,
Sil3512 PCI RAID controller, Kingwin SATA hot swap enclosures, 2x Hitachi 1TB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB buffer HDDs.