Hi
I’ve had two PC’s have an issue where I get the error
From the RAID controller:
RAID -foreign configuration found all drives lost.
The 1st time, not being familiar with the error. I gave the user a new PC, thinking the HD failed.
The 2nd time, I imported the foreign configuration and all seems well.
So my basic question is, does the error:
RAID -foreign configuration found-all drives gone
Mean the drives or controller is failing or unreliable or something else?
Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
If you have large SATA drives that use a hardware based RAID ,they must be either NAS grade or enterprise as there is a feature called TLR that needs to be turned on in order for the controller to verify that a drive is working.
Basically the difference between enterprise and desktop drives is if there is a read or write error on a drive ,the desktop drive will try to recover the sector for up to 15 or 20 seconds.
On a HW RAID controller ,it is set to timeout after 7 seconds if a drive doesn't respond and flags it as bad.
So step one is are using using the correct drives?