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: One more RAID question.


jpete
Jun 17th, 09, 7:33 PM
How do I know which one is bad?

Here's the message I get on boot.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff157/jpete71chevmal/sataerror.jpg

And after I boot, I get this.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff157/jpete71chevmal/sata-1.jpg

Sorry that picture is so big but it was illegible any smaller.

I should have expanded the red "!" in the upper left when I took the picture. I did it afterward and it showed both drives and one of them had a red icon on it. It looked maybe like a lock or something.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike
Jun 17th, 09, 7:40 PM
See if there's any utility on the Seagate site (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/) that can run a test for you.
Probably listed here (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=downloads&vgnextoid=51e092db8a13d010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD ).

ChaosEnvy
Jun 17th, 09, 9:44 PM
Reboot you computer.... Go into Bios.
In the bios you can run a diagnostic on your disks. The diagnostic will give you the serial number of the disk. Match it up and you are good to go.

Big D

jpete
Jun 17th, 09, 9:52 PM
See if there's any utility on the Seagate site (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/) that can run a test for you.
Probably listed here (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=downloads&vgnextoid=51e092db8a13d010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD ).

I have "Seatools" which is listed as the diagnostic software. It gives me an error. "Fatal Error: Device Discovery....Not Found Void Initialize()"

If I expand the red "!" in the second picture, it lists the S/N of both drives. Should I just assume the one with the red icon is the bad one?

What would happen if I picked the wrong one? It would just be unbootable correct?

speedyy
Jun 19th, 09, 6:36 PM
Have you actually installed the raid driver before booting windows?

Mike
Jun 19th, 09, 7:17 PM
Judging from his previous post (http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275841) ,he's got RAID setup but 1 drive's giving error's

speedyy
Jun 19th, 09, 9:01 PM
I have "Seatools" which is listed as the diagnostic software. It gives me an error. "Fatal Error: Device Discovery....Not Found Void Initialize()"

If I expand the red "!" in the second picture, it lists the S/N of both drives. Should I just assume the one with the red icon is the bad one?

What would happen if I picked the wrong one? It would just be unbootable correct?

Most probably yes :), there could even be a small synchro failure and maybe they still both boot :)

jpete
Jun 20th, 09, 9:35 AM
Well I "synchronized" the drives and everything seems fine. What would cause the drives to be out of sync? Sectors going bad? I did some searching around and I guess if the two drives aren't IDENTICAL it will give this error. But I didn't find any warnings that the drive might be going bad.

speedyy
Jun 20th, 09, 10:15 AM
Also checked both drives's firmware?

Mike
Jun 20th, 09, 12:38 PM
Try resetting the cables to both drives.
Sometimes it just vibration that loosens the connections and gives a false error .