Motherboards With NV RAID

ZXSpectrum

ZXSpectrum

ZXSpectrum

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I am currently having a problem. My motherboard (MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum) has just died on me. At first i thought it was the psu but its the board. Regardless the problem is that i have a RAID0 array setup on the Nvidia RAID controller on the board.

If i buy a new motherboard is the Nvidia RAID controller clever enough to recognise that there is a stripe setup already there and let me use it? I am not even bothered if i have to install another o/s just as long as i can get off the info from the other partitions.

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If you put a new motherboard in you will have to re-format anyway, because the drivers and registry are already setup on your HDD for the other mobo so it either won't work at all or you will have serious bugs.

If you're worried about losing your data just plug the drives in to another computer if possible and try and remove the info you need. Otherwise you will have to take a chance and put the new mobo in, try and extract the data you want and then re-format.

On another point, I would recommend that you have another HDD for data storage when running a raid0 setup so if this kind of thing happens you won't lose any data.
 
I was just about to remove the big 250Gb HDD from my XBOX to put in a Icybox as a external storage drive to save all the important stuff on.

I am not bothered about reinstalling as i know that i will have to eventually as the IDE/Chipset drivers will just cause the machine to reboot on startup. Thats really not the issue. Generally if you setup a RAID array, be it a stripe or a mirror, you generally have to use the same controller to get it back up and running. And as the controller on the MSI board is Nvidia i am wondering if it will still be recognised as an array.

You cant just plug them into another machine and extract the data as each drive only contains half the information and the RAID controller meshes that together.
 
Pretty sure that no array information is stored directly on the disks... so no, I dont think it will recognise the stripe :(
 
Well i have sort of just tried it with a board at work. I had a Tyan Dual Opteron board that had been completely setup with O/S etc. One of the usb ports was faulty so i have swapped the boards over, enabled the RAID in the bios (Not the RAID BIOS) and it sees the array automatically. So in theory it should work with any Nvidia RAID array... Hopefully...! My other problem now is that the Akasa Eclipse cases are out of stock everywhere... :(
 
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