WD sentine Dx4000 recreate storage error

Hi,

I am trying to recreate my storage from scratch. i formatted all the disks and follwed instructions on the manual page 51 (56) to the letter.

when i look at the log file this is what i get at the bottom.

2014.03.02 21:10:45 - INFO - raidcfg64.exe output

******************** Driver Version Check DISABLED ********************
Delete RAID Volume…
Deleting Volume “Volume0”…Deleted

2014.03.02 21:10:45 - INFO - Deleted RAID volume ‘Volume0’
2014.03.02 21:10:49 - INFO - Re-creating RAID volume
2014.03.02 21:10:49 - INFO - D:\wdrecovery\raidcfg64.exe /Y /c:Volume0 /l:5 /ss:64 /ds:4 2 3 5
2014.03.02 21:10:51 - INFO - raidcfg64.exe output

******************** Driver Version Check DISABLED ********************
Disk Selection Failed: Invalid port selection.
Only non-RAID disks or disks of a single volume can be selected.

2014.03.02 21:10:51 - ERROR - Failed to create RAID: exit code = 1
2014.03.02 21:10:51 - ERROR - Failed to create RAID volume: RaidCfg Util Error
2014.03.02 21:10:54 - INFO - =========== Recovery app END (4) ===========

what am i doing wrong? I started on the 2nd and waited for 6 days with the display saying loading recovery.

Lucky dog :)  It took me 3 months off and on to figure it out LOL  My guess is you did what I did.  Started witt 4 drives and tried to go to 2 drives.  Raid5 to raid 1.  So it is trying to create a 5 with only 2 drives.

In any case simply slave the drives one at a time in another box and use diskpart to *clean* the drives.  You can then use the gui diskmgmt.msc to initialize the drives and format if you like.  I am not 100% sure they have to be formated.  Clean and initialize yes.

Then do recreate again.  I forget, but it should take less than 6 hours tops.  So if it goes over a day, something is still wrong and waiting 5 more days will not help.