RAID question for AMD boards

[rexian96]

I have a question on RAID controller compatibility of various AMD chipsets. My motherboard (Biostar TA690G AM2) died last night. Still not sure how that happened but that's what it seems as the LEDs on the board are not coming up at all and also the CPU is not hot even after turning off the CPU fan. I had 2x500GB Seagate drives configured in RAID 0 and as expected, I lost the data on those (not critical data which I backup regularly).

Wondering if I could get a new motherboard (780G or 790GX) that uses the same RAID controller and get the data back? Does anyone know what controller TA690G uses and which motherboards (690G,780G etc) use the same one? I am not able to find that specific controller information from Biostar or anywhere else so wondering if AMD has just one standard RAID controller that is used in all its chipsets?

Thanks for any response.

 

[Master Bob]

Well, I imagine the RAID is controlled on the southbridge, in this case a SB600. I'm not sure how much luck you would have getting your data back though given the same raid controller.

Good luck!

 

[kirbyrj]

You have to look at the boards. They use either the SB600 or 700 (maybe 750...I don't remember). I don't have experience with the AMD RAID, but the Intel arrays work between different ICH controllers. Hopefully AMD took a hint.

 

[cpufast2]

I would think that a newer controller would pick up the array. The only problem might occur when you go to boot into windows and your older driver may cause it to BSOD. I just moved an array from a board with an 600 SB to a 700 SB and the controller picked up the array, no problem.