Adaptec 8805 can't force on volume

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Mikhail

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Feb 15, 2017
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Okay,
Somebody was playing with the power on the server. I have a RAID5 80 TB array whose members show as optimal but the logic volume shows as failed. The drives are fine because I can read their info (temperature for example), and I don't expect there to be much of any data loss.

I tried to force the logic volume to "on" but I'm getting a non-descriptive error that looks like:

arcconf setstate 1 logicaldrive 0 optimal advanced nocheck noprompt
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Attention: Using advanced options to force a logical device online is a dangerous operation and
requires substantial knowledge of the RAID level and the nature of the logical device failure.
Even if this operation can force the logical device online,
all data on this logical device may be lost if one or more disks contain outdated data.

All available disk segments that constitute this logical device will be forced online;
the data they contain will be used as valid data.
If you are not sure, abort and contact your service representative.
The logical device could not be forced online using the advanced force option.

Command failed.​


Anybody have any ideas how to force the volume on?
 

Mikhail

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Okay this got fixed.

In short, you need to create a new volume with the exact same settings as the old volume and skip the initialization step.