Intel RTSe woes

[Prof.Linux]

So I have an Intel RTSe raid that I use for almost everything (virtual machines, steam, code, etc.) and this morning I did some maintenance on my PC and something happened.

 

So first thing first the HDD's are set in a RAID-10 array and are inside of a hot swap hard drive cage. And when I powered my PC back on I had a drive that went from RAID to non-RAID so I rebuilt the RAID array with that disk then all of a sudden the array was gone and so where the disk. I rebooted and ever reset the CMOS config and re-enabled the RTSe raid setup. Howerver the RAID array did not show up but all of the disk are "offline-RAID-members". So far I tried Hirens boot DVD (windows PE based not the XP version) and a Manjaro Live DVD and both did not recognise the disk in the OS or there ever being a RAID array.

However the Ubuntu 16.04.5 Live DVD sees the RAID array and my files.

 

So now I'm trying to figure out what to do ATM.

[Electronics Wizardy]

full system specs?

 

Normally stay away from intel motherboard raid, your much better off using software raid.

 

SInce the linux live disk sees the files, just copy the files to a backup, then restup the raid array.

[Prof.Linux]

Asus Maximuss VIII Gene Z170

Core i7-7700K + Phanteks Glacier Water block

64GB DDR4 3000

RTX Titan + Phanteks Glacier RGB Water block and Back plate

4 x WD blue 2TB hdds

256 m.2 sata SSD

Fenvi (intel 9260) wifi card

Corsair CX750 power supply

Manjaro Linux (kernel 5.7)

*other stuff*

alpha cool resivor and D5 pump

Cyber power AVR1500 UPS

Rosewell 5.25 hot swap 3.25 hdd cage.

 

And also I would like to back it up and restore but I don'y currently have a 4TB back up drive.

So I was wondering if there was a RTSe command to online the RAID disk or change something.

Or make the disk online again.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, jaypea1025 said:

Asus Maximuss VIII Gene Z170

Core i7-7700K + Phanteks Glacier Water block

64GB DDR4 3000

RTX Titan + Phanteks Glacier RGB Water block and Back plate

4 x WD blue 2TB hdds

256 m.2 sata SSD

Fenvi (intel 9260) wifi card

Corsair CX750 power supply

Manjaro Linux (kernel 5.7)

*other stuff*

alpha cool resivor and D5 pump

Cyber power AVR1500 UPS

Rosewell 5.25 hot swap 3.25 hdd cage.

 

And also I would like to back it up and restore but I don'y currently have a 4TB back up drive.

So I was wondering if there was a RTSe command to online the RAID disk or change something.

Or make the disk online again.

so if your running linux, why bother with rst at all? Software raid on linux is much better than the motherboard raid.

 

Your gonna need a backup of the data, raid is not a backup.

 

Id buy the drive and do the backups now, you need to do it anyways.

 

 

[Prof.Linux]

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

so if your running linux, why bother with rst at all? Software raid on linux is much better than the motherboard raid.

 

Your gonna need a backup of the data, raid is not a backup.

 

Id buy the drive and do the backups now, you need to do it anyways.

 

 

I didn't do a Linux software raid becuase A:) I have no experience with Linux software Raid and B:) I didn't know how friendly it would be with a distro hop when I did one.

[Electronics Wizardy]

57 minutes ago, jaypea1025 said:

I didn't do a Linux software raid becuase A:) I have no experience with Linux software Raid and B:) I didn't know how friendly it would be with a distro hop when I did one.

it will work fine between distro swaps, very little config needed.

 

ID do zfs here, very good software raid managment, and lots of good features aswell, like checksumming, snapshots, and others.

[Prof.Linux]

OK

So I got the Data back HOWEVER there's some issue witch may be the problem.

Now Like I said earlier, I don't have experience with MD raid or extra hardware to mess around with MD raid and I know BIOS RAID so I stuck with it because that what I'm familiar with.

 

But this is whats happening,

I have ONE, just ONE disk that like to make its self a offline-RAID member as mark by the EFI interface.

So I remove the RAID member from that disk and try to rebuild the RAID with that disk but the controller did not even change the disk. Its still at degraded and never bothered to try to rebuild with that removed Non-RAID disk.

So it could be the A: Drive cage causing problems (but I don't see how though unless the "back plate" that the HDD and the motherboard communicate with) B: The Sata cables or C : the disk are WD Blue disk and may not be RAID friendly.