Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:00:06 +0200 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: scott <hondascott@comcast.net> Subject: Re: what about highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller ? Message-ID: <200705241000.06545.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c79db1$bb131270$6401a8c0@barely> References: <000501c79db1$bb131270$6401a8c0@barely>
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On Thursday 24 May 2007, scott wrote:
> Hi Eric, you seem to be an expert at raid so I was wondering if you could
> answer a question for me. I have a ASUS A7V8X M.B. with 2 sata drives in
> stripe mode. The M.B. recently failed and I am wondering how to retrieve
> the data. I bought (tried to) a board on ebay but the company never shipp=
ed
=46rom the specs that's got some kind of Promise controller onboard. Assumi=
ng=20
you used the BIOS to configure the RAID, what you got as "fake raid" which=
=20
the ataraid driver handles. All the "RAID" BIOS does is write a RAID=20
signature on the disks, the rest is done in software.
I once moved a drive from a Promise-based fake RAID machine to an nVidia=20
machine and ataraid duly recognized that the drive was RAIDed and that it w=
as=20
missing its mate. So there's a pretty good chance you can plug both drives=
=20
into any FBSD machine and then ataraid will handle it for you.
YMMV, not responsible for advice taken, etc.
> it Are raid protocols standard so that any MB will reconfiger my array? Is
> it chip specific as in hipoint vs promise? Any help would be awesome.
The signatures are different, yes.
=2D-=20
These are your friends - Adem
GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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