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help. ga-7vrxp raid trouble, compatability and warning
Hello,
This is about my issues with my RAID array. Does anyone know of a motherboard that is compatible with a striped IDE raid array created on a gigabyte ga-7vrxp motherboard? Last weekend my computer started to freak out. Over a 20 minute period it degraded to freezing during regular system operations to freezing in the bios. Now I can't get in to the bios every time I boot unless I clear the CMOS with a jumper. And then after I get in, it freezes after a few seconds. So I went to fry's and bought another mobo with the same IDE raid controller chipset (promise with fastrack100), hoping that I would be able to access my data. I thought in theory that one raid controller would see a raid array in the same way that another raid controller would, similarily to the way different motherboards can read different hard drives. Not so, as I find out. The second board acknowledged that there was a raid array attached, but can't boot off of it or read the data. Formatting the raid array is the only option it would offer me. After doing some digging I found this... "Hardware RAID controllers use proprietary data formats on their component drives. So you while can usually move a drive set from one particular (make & model) RAID controller to another of the same make & model, you can't interchange drive sets between differing RAID controllers, nor can you normally place drives already containing data on a RAID controller and have it understand the content." The company that manufactures the new mobo confirmed this, telling me that even different models of motherboards that they produce will not read the raid arrays in the same way. So my data is stranded and I am forced to buy the exact same hard to find, discontinued motherboard that failed me in the first place just so that I can access my data. Now that this model of motherboard has had a catastophic failure on me, i'm sure I will get rid of the second one immediately after I get my stuff off of there. But how I wish that I had never ever used the raid array in the first place. Imagine how much easier my situation wouild be now. I'm sure that I have spent way more time trying to retrieve my data already than the collective nanoseconds saved accessing my data with a raid array in place. I had no idea tha they were so tempermental to the specifics of the hardware controllers. It just isn't worth it to me. -todd |
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