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  • Broken HighPoint Striped Array Reconnected!

    I have (had) a 90GB striped raid array on my MB's HighPoint controller.
    During a large file move, one of the drives broke and destroyed the Array.
    The symptom was that the controller reported drive 0 as a member of a broken array and drive 1 as just a drive.
    In windows, drive 0 showed up as having a file structure indicative of a trashed FAT.
    Drive 1 reported as having no partitions by fdisk.

    Code:
    Steps to fixing the problem:
    0, [b]Do not do anything that would write to either disk![/b]
    1, Delete the raid using HighPoint's Windows Raid Manager. (gulp)
    2, Recreate the raid using the bios raid setup.
       a, [b]Be sure that you use the same stripe size![/b]
       b, and, that the drives are hooked up the same way
           (Master/Slave, Cables, Controller Channels & all)
    3, Run Norton Disk Doctor in Windows.
       a, It will report that the drive has no partitions and ask to search for one (or more). Say yes.
       b, It may also report & fix other disk problems.
       c, [b] Do not let it do a surface scan.[/b]
    4, If it works this far, [b]get your data onto another drive![/b]
    In my case the drive had a mechanical problem that prevented it from accessing a few cylinders around 11% of the way into the drive.
    Got it all back!
    On the other hand, IBM is not doing Warranty cross-ships now!?
    chuck
    Last edited by cjolley; 15 October 2001, 13:07.
    Chuck
    秋音的爸爸

  • #2
    Thanks for the tip.

    Hope I never get to use it though!
    Lawrence

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    • #3
      IBM _is_ doing warranty cross ships, but their tech guys will spend an hour trying to talk you into running their utilities to try to "fix" the drive.

      - Gurm
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      • #4
        Gurm,
        According to the tech I talked to, they aren't doing it at all right now
        He said that hopefully they were planning on starting again next month .



        I had already run the Drive Fitness Test:
        DFT Failure Code: 0x70 (Defective Device)
        chuck

        PS. I just started DFT & went bowling for a couple of hours
        Last edited by cjolley; 15 October 2001, 13:25.
        Chuck
        秋音的爸爸

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        • #5
          >>Broken HighPoint Striped Array
          >>
          >>


          >>Shudder<<
          WinXP Pro/Win2K Pro
          Pentium 4 1.7 Abit TH7II-RAID
          HD (boot): Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 60GB
          HD (RAID-0): WD WD400BB 80GB (2x40GB)
          Kingston 256MB 800MHZ RDRAM
          ATI Radeon 8500 128MB
          Hauppauge Wintv #401
          Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

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          • #6
            More than likely not related to the Highpoint.

            Never thought you'd hear ME say that, did you??

            IBM has had a bad run of defective drives over the last several months. The 60/75 GXP's seem to be the ones in trouble.

            Dr. Mordrid
            Dr. Mordrid
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            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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            • #7
              Yup, this was a 45gig 75GXP produced & purchased one year ago.
              I have another (the other half of the raid), so I ran Drive Fitness Test on it in "Exercise" mode for 4 hours & it came back clean.
              I will run the replacement for a day & night before I use it to rebuild the raid.

              This was definitely a defective drive. Not the raid controller.
              Run by it's self the drive would hang format.exe at 11% complete and make weird squeaking noises.
              The bad place was occupied by a copy of install for the Monster Truck Madness II Demo.
              So, it's plainly Microsoft's fault.
              chuck
              Last edited by cjolley; 16 October 2001, 06:51.
              Chuck
              秋音的爸爸

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              • #8
                So, it's plainly Microsoft's fault.
                chuck
                Of course it is, isn't everything?

                Dr. Mordrid
                Dr. Mordrid
                ----------------------------
                An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

                I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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