Will disabling raid in bios break the array?

[da_ging]

basically I've just set up a raid 0 with 2 640gb WD drives but one of the drives has aam enabled and annoyingly ftool does not detect the drives , I'm assuming that if i change the sata from raid to normal it will detect them and let me change the aam but will the raid array go **** up if i do change from raid to non raid in the bios while i do this??

oh and should i use that wdtler thing to change the settings as per here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery or will it be ok without doing it?

 

[smids]

First, disabling RAID in BIOS will not cause the array to die completely. When you turn it back on again, the drives should work fine, as before. This was certainly the case on nVidia based RAID implementations. I am not sure whether the same is for Intel chipsets, however. I wouldn't bother with TLER as this is for hardware RAID cards which 'timeout' a drive and flag it as failed if it doesn't respond after a certain amount of time. Given that you are using onboard RAID by the sounds of it, you needn't bother with this feature.