Areca 1210 (4-port), originally 4-disk raid5
Moved from one machine to another, now it says the following during boot:
No BIOS disk found. Raid controller BIOS not installed!
The only explanation I have is that the order of disks got somehow mixed up and what used to be the disk connected to port 0 is not connected to a different port, and so on.
The disks are all recognized when looking at them using the controllers menu:
Main Menu -> Physical Drives -> View Drive Information
Now I could go through and try all possible combinations, but I'd rather avoid such frequent reboots if possible. Is there some way for me to figure out what the proper order of the drives is supposed to be?
Edit:
The Areca FAQ has the following to say about this issue:
I wasn't using an array that's larger than 2TB, those are four 400GB disks. Somehow the volume set info was lost, which leads me to believe (hope!) the order the drives are connected to the controller is wrong.
Edit2:
Unplugging all drives from the controller, and then plugging each drive into the same channel, one at a time (obviously), results in the controller recognizing that each drive is part of a raid set. However, as soon as a second drive is added, both drives' status changes to "Free" meaning the controller doesn't see them as part of the same raid set, or any raid set really.
I am just going to start trying the different combos, see what I can come up with.
Moved from one machine to another, now it says the following during boot:
No BIOS disk found. Raid controller BIOS not installed!
The only explanation I have is that the order of disks got somehow mixed up and what used to be the disk connected to port 0 is not connected to a different port, and so on.
The disks are all recognized when looking at them using the controllers menu:
Main Menu -> Physical Drives -> View Drive Information
Now I could go through and try all possible combinations, but I'd rather avoid such frequent reboots if possible. Is there some way for me to figure out what the proper order of the drives is supposed to be?
Edit:
The Areca FAQ has the following to say about this issue:
Areca FAQ said:Two conditions will let the system displayed after boot-up:
>>> No BIOS disk Found. RAID Controller BIOS not installed!
(1). Controller does not create any volume set. The message will be far away after you create the volume set and completed initialization.
(2). If your volume is created greater than 2TB, the BIOS will show NO BIOS DISK FOUND and RAID CONTROLLER BIOS NOT INSTALLED. This is caused by the currently M/B BIOS only support MBR table (32-bit).
I wasn't using an array that's larger than 2TB, those are four 400GB disks. Somehow the volume set info was lost, which leads me to believe (hope!) the order the drives are connected to the controller is wrong.
Edit2:
Unplugging all drives from the controller, and then plugging each drive into the same channel, one at a time (obviously), results in the controller recognizing that each drive is part of a raid set. However, as soon as a second drive is added, both drives' status changes to "Free" meaning the controller doesn't see them as part of the same raid set, or any raid set really.
I am just going to start trying the different combos, see what I can come up with.