Suggestion for fixing broken raid set
Jesus. Again. Twice in 6 months. Raid set failure.
2:58pm today : Drive 3:50014ee2aede46eb missing - Previous drive status was inuse
2:59pm today : Degraded RAID set RS1
2:59pm today : Degraded RAID set RS1 - No spare available for rebuild
Jesus...
After launching the Raid Utility, I notice that one drive is actually missing from the drive bays.. Its just gone, and I have not done anything to it. This happened last December as well. Hard booting the drive (pull out, push back in) worked last time to get the drive online, but jesus. Twice? I should maybe replace the drive? I am using Apple Raid Card, people say it turns to be pretty strict about the drives state, but why the **** it keeps disappearing from the system?!
I was already on the phone with one Apple consultant about this, and I think everything is pretty OK. I have good backups, and gladly, the OS RAID set is ok. Only our accounts and work files were in there, and all is secured. But this is really stressful.. Feels like I can't trust these drives one bit. And they are good drives, standard hardware what comes with Mac Pro.
Just when I was starting to think that everything is finally working smoothly..
Any recommendations about how to act now. I know what I have to do but, it would be encouraging if I would get some steps to how to fix it. Working order etc.
Everything works tho, taking one separate set of backups at the moment just in case. I just need to get my act together and fix it. God I am annoyed tho.
Good weekend to everyone tho. Comments are appreciated.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)