RAID-----help with a failure

[GasPath]

I "HAD" a RAID system with three hard drives. Two 30 gig drives (1+0) set up on channel 1. I had a spare 40 gig I set up on channel 2 showing up as a slave. This drive was not part of the array (or so I thought). Well, one of the Maxtors died (less than a year old). I thought, "No problem, I had all my important information backed up on drive 3". I removed the drive and to my surprize, I can't read it on anything. So I took the one remaining 30gig drive and reformated it on channel one. No Problem. My FastTrak says the drive is there on channel 2, and is functional. But I can't read it with anything.

Any recommendations for trying to get this third drive back?

T.I.A.

 

[mcveigh]

I'm confused...
what raid type? 1?
with the 2 30gigers? ...1 died... you then out the good drive in another machine?

which drive got reformatted?

 

[zzzz]

Firstly, you cant have (1+0) raid with two drives.
Try hooking up the 40 gig to a non-raid ide port and see if you can read it.

 

[LED]

If you had 3 drives then prolly only 2 were RAID ) and the other just sat there cause you would need 2 (not 1) to complete the RAID 1+0

 

[GasPath]

Let me see if I can clarify this.

I had three drives on my FasTrak RAID card. Two 30 gig drives were set up in tandem and working, and I had a 40 gig just setting on channel two, not part of the RAID. One of the 30s died (clicks constantly) and won't boot. So, I removed the 40 gig, with the backup information I wanted, to another computer. Works, but can't be read. So I returned it to the system with the FastTrak and the card sees the drive. From the FastTrak bios it says the drive partition is Functional. In Win2K, Drive Manager says its Dynamic-Foreign. At this point, I'm wondering if this third drive ended up as part of the RAID configuration, and I didn't realize it. When the system was running, I saw a 60gig drive (the two 30 gig drives) and a separate 40 gig. However, I can't read the drive, so I'm guessing that this 40 gig drive was dependent on the 60gig RAID, and once that drive died, everything on the 40 gig died also.

Thanks for the help.