Hi everyone!
I've got an MBP with an Addonics ExpressCard->eSATA connected to my storage box with 2 500GB Seagate ES-discs in it. However I'm having some trouble getting it up and running with the RAID functions in Mac OS X. At first all was working perfectly, but then one of my drives got "Failed" next to it.
Strange, the discs were brand new, but they could've been DOA from transport. Anyway. Guessed bad cluster, so I ran diagnostics on a PC, and the discs both came out fine.
I tried rebuilding the array. The progress bar gets about 1/4 of the way with 3 hours to go, and then justs stops, the "rebuilding"-window disappears, and afterwards the log sometimes shows me "The underlying task reported failure on exit" and other times "RAID Set rebuilt successfully", however in both cases the Disk Utility still shows failed... And right now my Disk Utility just froze over :-(
So now I'm a bit stuck. One option I have is to format the bad drive entirely, and rebuild the mirror on it. Problem is, if my remaining mirror-disc quits on me in the process I'll lose everything so I'd rather try to solve this differently. I think it's something in the software, perhaps there are tricks to solve this behaviour?
Thanks in advance!
I've got an MBP with an Addonics ExpressCard->eSATA connected to my storage box with 2 500GB Seagate ES-discs in it. However I'm having some trouble getting it up and running with the RAID functions in Mac OS X. At first all was working perfectly, but then one of my drives got "Failed" next to it.
Strange, the discs were brand new, but they could've been DOA from transport. Anyway. Guessed bad cluster, so I ran diagnostics on a PC, and the discs both came out fine.
I tried rebuilding the array. The progress bar gets about 1/4 of the way with 3 hours to go, and then justs stops, the "rebuilding"-window disappears, and afterwards the log sometimes shows me "The underlying task reported failure on exit" and other times "RAID Set rebuilt successfully", however in both cases the Disk Utility still shows failed... And right now my Disk Utility just froze over :-(
So now I'm a bit stuck. One option I have is to format the bad drive entirely, and rebuild the mirror on it. Problem is, if my remaining mirror-disc quits on me in the process I'll lose everything so I'd rather try to solve this differently. I think it's something in the software, perhaps there are tricks to solve this behaviour?
Thanks in advance!