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Nvidia RAID recognized on Intel X38 Mobo???

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I recently swapped my evga 680i mobo for an Asus P5E X38 mobo. When I went to install the RAID1 (non-boot btw) on the X38, I went into bios and changed sata drives from IDE to Raid, rebooted then upon POST, entered the intel mediasheild program and selected my two drives to be raided, exited and reboot. Then just got blue screens at windows screen. Windows would start, then stop and blue screen.

I unhook the drives, windows boots fine. So, I thought, I'll set bios back to IDE (v. Raid). Then it posted, windows booted fine, and now I can see my RAID drive I had setup with the Nvidia mobo.

I never loaded any Intel raid drivers, so how can these two drives be recognized without the intel RAID drivers??? Is windows somehow using the old Nvidia raid drivers, eventhough I uninstalled all the nvidia drivers?

Also, I'm confused that all my data is still on the disks since when I was in the intel mediashield program, it said "all data will be lost" press Y or N. I said yes????

Note: I did a not do a fresh XP install with the new mobo, just a "repair".

Am I ok? Are these drives truly "raided"? What happens if they ever degrade, how would I fix a degraded nvidia raid on a non-nvidia X38 mobo?
 
Thats very very odd. So confirm that it recognizes the nvraid without you initializing a new raid in the setup screen? If thats the case, i am very happy although it seems unlikely

#1) Windows actually started to boot? aka the data on the drives was coherant
#2) If it actually did start to boot, then all you have to do is insert the intel raid drivers into your windows install (boot up into a PE disk or something)

Ive been waiting forever for some raids to be compatible, and if those two are, this is great news. Means nvidia and intel decided (probably randomly) to use the same init parameters as well as the stripe size being a compatible option

Please, keep us updated on this one
 
Thank jbrukart for the reply,

#1 Yes windows does start to boot. It has the windows screen with the blue bar scrolling across the bottom (XP pro). Not more than 5 secs into it, it bluse screens with something like "error has occurred, windows has been shut done to protect...blah, blah. If you installed new hardware disconnect it...Blah, Blah". But please remember my boot drive is a non-Raid sata drive. The two drives I am trying to properly Raid are for data storage only.

#2 what does PE disk mean? I didn't slipstream the drivers into XP (i.e. F6) when I repaired windows, so without getting into windows, I don't know another way. Perhaps you can explain PE disk.

Thanks!
 
You said they were part of a Raid1 array? Raid1 is just two drives where the data is mirrored on both drives. Unlike Raid-0 or Raid-5, each drive holds a complete copy of all of the data. Is it actually still working as Raid-1 or is it just seeing the data on the drives individually?
 
Good call, and thats also what i was trying to determine with my questions. If this is being picked up as a proper raid, or if its just seeing a single drive individually
 
did they used to be an os drive? i know when i enable raid on my board that array becomes first in the boot order. possibility that its booting off them instead?
 
GotNoRice said:
You said they were part of a Raid1 array? Raid1 is just two drives where the data is mirrored on both drives. Unlike Raid-0 or Raid-5, each drive holds a complete copy of all of the data. Is it actually still working as Raid-1 or is it just seeing the data on the drives individually?
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Well that's what I initially thought, but I would expect to see two drives recognized, both with the same data. Windows Explorer only sees one drive. I know two drives are being picked up because I can see them during POST, and in the BIOS.
 
codegrinder said:
did they used to be an os drive? i know when i enable raid on my board that array becomes first in the boot order. possibility that its booting off them instead?
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No, it was never a boot drive, just my data. My bios does however place the raid drive first, like you said above. I then have to manually change the order so my os disk is first. This I know has nothing to do with whether the Nvidia raid is recognized by the intel chipset.
 
What does Disk Management show? (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc)

Does it show both drives listed there? Does it show them as partitioned and formatted? Are both assigned a drive letter?

I'm assuming both drives are there and only one is assigned a drive letter.
 
diskmgmt shows one disk with one drive letter. When i right click and go to properties, both disks are shown
 
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