March 8, 201115 yr Ok here is my scenerio. I installed a Parity, Cache, and 4 data drives. Formatted them in the webmenu and ran a parity check. I received errors on two of the data drives, and noticed that tw of my drives showed up as 500gb instead of 1.5tb (due to Gigabyte's HPA). I pulled the truncated 1.5tbs out so I could fix them at a later time and swapped out all of the SATA cables on the remaining drives to make sure my errors weren't cable related. I boot the server back up and I noticed that I am no longer able to run the parity check to see i I still get errors. Is there a way where I can just "REDO" everything and start all over from scratch?
March 8, 201115 yr From the system console or telnet type in 'initconfig' and confirm with 'Yes'. This will throw away your current parity data and initialize a new configuration. It will forget about any drives that aren't currently in the array (such as your 1.5 TB drives). When you click 'Start' next it will start a new parity sync with only those drives that are present. Data drives will not be overwritten, so your data will be safe. However, you are susceptible to a drive failure until the parity sync AND a subsequent parity check both complete without errors.
March 8, 201115 yr Author Great. I'm not worried about data as there is nothing on the drives. I want to make sure my array is in tip top shape before putting any data on here.
March 8, 201115 yr and noticed that tw of my drives showed up as 500gb instead of 1.5tb (due to Gigabyte's HPA). Gigabyte's HPA does not steal 1TB. It shrinks the disk by about 2 Megabytes. Something else is going on in your server.
March 8, 201115 yr Author and noticed that tw of my drives showed up as 500gb instead of 1.5tb (due to Gigabyte's HPA). Gigabyte's HPA does not steal 1TB. It shrinks the disk by about 2 Megabytes. Something else is going on in your server. http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f16/1-5tb-showing-up-as-500gb-in-vista-64bit-465185.html#post2621291
March 8, 201115 yr and noticed that tw of my drives showed up as 500gb instead of 1.5tb (due to Gigabyte's HPA). Gigabyte's HPA does not steal 1TB. It shrinks the disk by about 2 Megabytes. Something else is going on in your server. http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f16/1-5tb-showing-up-as-500gb-in-vista-64bit-465185.html#post2621291 I had never heard of that... interesting.
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