Raid 5 Sil3114 Help Rebuilding Array, pictures included

Hello all,

I'm running Vista x64
with 4GB DDR3
2 Vill-Raptor 300GBs in Raid 0 on another controller for OS

and I have 3 700GB Maxtor's in Raid 5 on Sil3114r controller on my ASUS A8N-SLI mobo.

images of the problem:
http://www.buildamob.com/raid/img1.gif
http://www.buildamob.com/raid/img2.gif

images are also attached below at bottom of post.

I accidentally powered down my computer and one of the drives was orphaned. i deleted the orgran and tried to create a dedicated spare and it would not let me. Also, the options in SATARaid5 Manager to rebuild the array are dimmed.

It will let me create a global spare on the drive but this does nothing. Do i need to take this drive out format it, and put it back in? it is saying that the drive is healthy but i think there was a corruption of writing data onto this disk. This has happened before and it let me create a dedicated spare...

Sil3114R card will not bring one of my hard drives back online in a raid5 configuration. One of the hard drives was improperly shut down. but how can i use the sataraid5 manager windows device to bring it back online? It says all 3 drives are health. 2 of the drives are in the parity raid but it will not let me create a dedicated spare on the third drive so it can rebuild the raid array. When i try to create the dedicated spare to raid group 0 it gives me this error: "The Requested Operation Failed: Invalid Raid Group number"

 

Is it because sata5 does not know the starting LBN? Do I delete the raid group and then recreate it? will this cause data loss?

 

Phing, did you ever get a fix for this, i have the exact same problem.

 

Hello,

didi you fix the problem ? I have the same!

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

Andrea