Moving Raid 0 to New Mobo

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 10:30

Hi all,

I've just upgraded to a New Mobo and CPU.

On my old setup I was using 1x80gb drive for the op system, and 2x120gp raid 0 drives as general storage.

Can I get my new setup to recognise my old Raid? The old setup used a promise 376 controller, however the new one uses a different type..not sure of the name atm.

Old Setup was Chaintech Zenith Mobo / Athlon XP 2500
New Setup is ASRock 939Dual SATA-2 / Athlon 64 3700+

If I've gotta re-setup the old board and transfer the data I'm gonna cry!! :eek:

Fred

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 11:06

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:53

Thanks for the info

I managed to salvage one of my old cases I had laying about.

I've put in an old PSU I had, plus the old mobo/cpu. Once I get this setup I'll transfer the raid drives across then transfer the data to an external HDD which I luckily bought last week

Wish I had transferred the data before I swapped out the Mobo though :mad:

cheers,
Fred

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 13:05

Was just thinking about possible future setup.

Since RAID 1 is just mirroring drives, would a change of controller still mean you couldn't access the data on either drive?

Seems a bit scary that if your mobo screws up you can't recover data

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:40

Seems like the safest option would be not to use RAID at all