Areca ARC-1280ML missing array

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Areca ARC-1280ML connected to 12 Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB drives. These drives are configured in two arrays; a RAID-10 of 4 and a RAID-6 of 8.

Before I rebooted the system, I verified that both arrays were showing "healthy". Upon reboot, the BIOS declared only 1 array. In windows using the web console, it shows all the other drives, but shows them as "free" (ie. unassigned), and only gives me my RAID-10.

Areca's website isn't particularly useful, and some Googling didn't get very far. I see an option to create an array without initializing the disks, which might do the trick, but I'd love to hear from someone with experience with this.

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Sometimes the controller only wants to do one raid array per reboot.

Try redoing the Raid array again, then reboot.

Card isn't real clear on supporting Raid 6:
"RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD"
 
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Santilli said:
Sometimes the controller only wants to do one raid array per reboot.

Try redoing the Raid array again, then reboot.

Card isn't real clear on supporting Raid 6:
"RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD"
Click to expand...

Perhaps 7 doesn't support Raid 6???
 
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This is on a Server 2003 machine. Further, the OS has no idea what RAID level it is, or that there is RAID going on at all.
 
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(if RAID 6 engine supported)

I've been trying to figure out what this means, but, no joy...
 
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