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Post by ninjagull on Jul 18, 2010 9:08:52 GMT -5
Hi hope somebody can help.
After lots of research on building my own NAS for home use I invested in an Intel D510 board, 5 Western Caviar WD5000AADS drives and two netcell SR5000 (one for backup) and built then into an old PAckard Bell case with new 405 watt PSU.
I am using 4GB (industrial) CF card on SATA converter plugged into to motherboard on which I have the FreeNAS operating system.
The 5 500Gb drives (all jumpered to 1.5Mb transfer rate) are all plugged into the Netcell card.
Have now tried both Netcell cards and updated to latest firmware 1.7.6.1. When I first boot and use Ctl-N for BIOS setup of card on of the drives comes up as 'U' Unassigned. Other 4 are part of Raid 3 array.
I then delete array leaving all drives Unassigned. Then create new 5 drive array (0) and Array A0 shows 5 drive-Raid 3 good.
Then do save and exit and then shutdown and then start system. More often than not the same drive keeps coming up as unassigned, partial array or fault.
I have plugged the drive into seperate PC and tested it and it seems OK.
I have tried new data and power cables. If I plug drive into a different port the fault moves with the dive onto that port.
I think I read somewhere that 750Gb Western digital drives did not work with this card?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
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