RAID 10 fails when initialize in windows.

[ToastyBear]

So I recently ripped all my HDDs out of my case. Threw them into a San Digital RAID enclosure connected via 1 single SFF-8644 cable connected to an Adaptec 8885E with external SAS.

 

So heres the problem. I setup the RAID in the RAID card bios. All goes well and I boot up. Launch windows disk management. See the unknown disk with 7450GB unallocated as expected. So the normal thing I do when I had intel raid is to open windows disk management, "initialize" the disk, then allocate the space into one single volume, then use the thing for storage like usual.

 

The problem is when I "initialize" it under windows disk management. The thing explodes. The raid controller immediately throws an error and says volume is degraded and it tells me to rebuild as soon as possible and I can't see the drive under windows anymore. I am probably doing something horribly wrong but I never used a raid controller before and google is not helpful.

 

 

So the setup is (not sure if any of this matters)

4x4GB Hitachi Deskstar

RAID 10

512KB stripe

Write cache off

 

[TheCherryKing]

4 minutes ago, ToastyBear said:

So I recently ripped all my HDDs out of my case. Threw them into a San Digital RAID enclosure connected via 1 single SFF-8644 cable connected to an Adaptec 8885E with external SAS.

 

So heres the problem. I setup the RAID in the RAID card bios. All goes well and I boot up. Launch windows disk management. See the unknown disk with 7450GB unallocated as expected. So the normal thing I do when I had intel raid is to open windows disk management, "initialize" the disk, then allocate the space into one single volume, then use the thing for storage like usual.

 

The problem is when I "initialize" it under windows disk management. The thing explodes. The raid controller immediately throws an error and says volume is degraded and it tells me to rebuild as soon as possible and I can't see the drive under windows anymore. I am probably doing something horribly wrong but I never used a raid controller before and google is not helpful.

 

 

So the setup is (not sure if any of this matters)

4x4GB Hitachi Deskstar

RAID 10

512KB stripe

Write cache off

 

Are the proper drivers installed?

[ToastyBear]

I believe so. I downloaded the drivers and did the driver update via windows device manager. Maybe ill give their tech support a call tomorrow.

 

Oh the RAID volume is not "initialized" under the RAID controller. I don't think that part is suppose to matter though.

[ToastyBear]

Ok i have no idea what I did. But I did something using the windows 10 "storage" utility, not the original windows disk management utility. 

 

That thing just let me allocate the space without doing any sort of initialization. It just created a partition directly and my RAID controller didn't get pissed off this time. I think the windows initialization was deleting the RAID information. It seems to work now. 

 

EDIT. Nevermind. I put any data on it and it fails. Im definitely calling tech support tomorrow.

[dalekphalm]

On 29/10/2017 at 10:36 PM, ToastyBear said:

Ok i have no idea what I did. But I did something using the windows 10 "storage" utility, not the original windows disk management utility. 

 

That thing just let me allocate the space without doing any sort of initialization. It just created a partition directly and my RAID controller didn't get pissed off this time. I think the windows initialization was deleting the RAID information. It seems to work now. 

 

EDIT. Nevermind. I put any data on it and it fails. Im definitely calling tech support tomorrow.

Is everything new, or were some of the components used?

 

Have you tested all 4 drives for SMART errors?