Question regarding raid card

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shinygecko

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I just picked up a adaptec 31605 off od ebay and it works great however i have a problem.

4 x 1TB hdd's connected to mobo
16 x 250GB hdd's connected to controller

Only way i can get windows to see the drive is by creating a logical drive and i think i accidentally erased a drive doing this

My problem is i need the raid controller to be transparent and just act as a controller so i can get all my data off the 16 drives onto the TB drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated i have googled and googled and can't figure this out.:D
 
any drives connected to a standalone controller will likely need to be initialized by the controller, in order for the controller to present the LUN to the OS. In other words, it is unlikely that you will be able to have the controller just hand the drives to the OS, they will likely need to be initialized, meaning that the partition tables and all the info on them will effectively get wiped.
 
Some RAID cards have an option that will let you pass through the drives to the OS like a non RAID controller. However, I'm not familiar with the Adaptec 31605, so I don't know if it can do it.
 
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