ICH10R Raid Set Portability?

sgrinavi

sgrinavi

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Help.

I thought one of the advantages to using the onboard RAID was that you could install your raid array on another board (that has the same chipset) and it would find the disks and go on with life....

I have taken all of my current disks from one board to another without issue, but it seems that going from my Rampage II Extreme to a P6X58 is not so simple. I was going to reformat my boot array anyhow so I could use the SATA 6 ports, but it'd be nice if I could just get my (RAID 0+1) data array on-line without going back to my back-up.

The disks are not plugged into the SATA6 ports, the Intel RAID utility sees them, but does not recognize them as part of any array, I have tried them on SATA II ports 1 thru 6 with the same results.

Am I missing something here?

PS, please, I already know on-board RAID sucks, so don't have to remind me (LOL)
 
It's likely that the Intel OPROM would have to match the OPROM on the old board. I had issues with Nvidia onboard RAID one time when Gigabyte updated the BIOS which updated the RAID OPROM which caused Windows to no longer work with the array (similar to how you described with your Intel array). I had to flash back and wait for a revised BIOS update that didn't fubar the OPROM.

RAID is portable to another PC in the event you move the controller and the drives to the new system. With hardware cards, you can just pop the card in any system and the array will work which is a big reason I like putting my OS drive on an independent controller so I don't have to reinstall Windows if I upgrade my board. It's more of a crap-shoot if you try it with onboard RAID.
 
It SHOULD work with the same exact controller. And often works with in the same family.... ie: from ICH9R to ICH10R. However, the RAID BIOS can affect this as Volkum stated.
 
If you really need to get the data off, Linux dmraid should be able to mount it.
 
keenan said:
If you really need to get the data off, Linux dmraid should be able to mount it.
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What is this Linux that you speak of ? LOL... I have a back-up, but I'm lazy and it is a couple days old....

The boneheads from the Asus tech forum are suggesting that I wipe out the SSDs, get windows installed and go from there. There is a BIOS update available, maybe that'll put a fire under it.
 
If you're serious about wanting to try, I'll see if I can help you out, but if you're not comfortable with the command line it's probably going to scare you :p If you're interested go download and boot a Finnix LiveCD and PM me, we'll go from there.
 
Windows 7 repair disk and a back-up saved the day! I had both arrays back up in a couple hours. WOO HOO. I might have lost an hours worth of data (my daily back-ups run at 8:00 pm, I think I shut down at 9:00 the day before I lost my system )

SO, no, ICH10R portability is not guaranteed.....
 
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