RAID Swap?

[matm347]

I have 4 drives in two RAID 0 arrays on a 4-port PCI card, I also have new parts on the way which includes a new MB with onboard SATA controllers.

Will my data be preserved when I move over to the new controllers as long as I keep the same config?(stripe size/drive order)

My best guess would be yes, but I was wondering if anyone here knows for sure.

Thanks!

[matm347]

Re: RAID Swap?

I answered this one myself by doing it. The new controller did not recognize the existing RAID 0 and I had to rebuild it. Also, XP completely freaked out with the new hardware, I could not even reload on top of what I had...even though I kept the old controller card. I had to reformat..DOH!

Interesting though, is that I am going to use one drive for C so when I took the extra drive out, windows setup still recognized it as the 73gig(2x36gig). I had to remove/rebuild the partition.

[wayout44]

Re: RAID Swap?

I thought that everyone knew now that when you change mainboards you have to reload XP.

[matm347]

Re: RAID Swap?

I thought that everyone knew now that when you change mainboards you have to reload XP.

If I was the last one that didn't, then yes...everyone now knows that you have to reload XP with a mainboard swap.

I was primarily wanting to know if the RAID would stay intact from controller to controller. Judging by the lack of replies, It seems nobody knew that.

[Yawgm0th]

Re: RAID Swap?

Actually we (or at least I) visit unregularly and you had answered yourself by the time we (again, at least I) even saw the thread. ;)