Hey

 

I have just reconfigured my array, as it was a boggy.  I removed all but two of the drives, and then rebooted.  I ran the initconfig script in putty, and it completed successfully.  I am now trying to put the largest drive that I have in there as the cache drive, but when i go to \\tower it tells me that there is no parity, and there is actually three drives, one of which is missing.  I ran the initconfig again just to make sure, and it did the same thing again.  When I try to then assign the parity in the device settings page, the raid wont allow me to start it as it says that there are too many drives missing. 

 

All I am trying to do is wipe everything and then start again.  I have all the data on the other disks that I pulled out of the RAID which I am trying to put in some form of order back on the raid server.  I am attempting to read the disks just in a sata dock on my other desktop but they wont read either.  Have I seriously screwed up?  What i intended on doing was completely erase, copy over one disk at a time, into the right folders and places, then insert another disk when necessary.  This I thought would be a relatively simple task, however it has not proved to be so.

 

I have had a look around the forums and the wiki to see what I can find there is only the initconfig solution and that is not seeming to work. Do you have any suggestions?  Is there somewhere for a newbie like me to read step by step instructions on how to install a parity and a new disk so that i can start copying stuff back to it?  I am seriously stuck, and don't know what to do.

 

Thanks

 

Alistair

Hey

 

I have just reconfigured my array, as it was a boggy.  I removed all but two of the drives, and then rebooted.  I ran the initconfig script in putty, and it completed successfully.  I am now trying to put the largest drive that I have in there as the cache drive, but when i go to \\tower it tells me that there is no parity, and there is actually three drives, one of which is missing.  I ran the initconfig again just to make sure, and it did the same thing again.  When I try to then assign the parity in the device settings page, the raid wont allow me to start it as it says that there are too many drives missing. 

 

All I am trying to do is wipe everything and then start again.  I have all the data on the other disks that I pulled out of the RAID which I am trying to put in some form of order back on the raid server.  I am attempting to read the disks just in a sata dock on my other desktop but they wont read either.  Have I seriously screwed up?  What i intended on doing was completely erase, copy over one disk at a time, into the right folders and places, then insert another disk when necessary.  This I thought would be a relatively simple task, however it has not proved to be so.

 

I have had a look around the forums and the wiki to see what I can find there is only the initconfig solution and that is not seeming to work. Do you have any suggestions?  Is there somewhere for a newbie like me to read step by step instructions on how to install a parity and a new disk so that i can start copying stuff back to it?  I am seriously stuck, and don't know what to do.

 

Thanks

 

Alistair

If you ran initconfig and it prompted you for a response, you MUST type "Yes" (Capital "Y" and lower case "es" )

from your description you did not respond to it correctly and it did not take effect.

 

Joe L.

Just a thought as you didnt say if you have done this... try rebooting after you have run initconfig!!

Thanks for that, It worked a charm.