From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 07:59:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3BB16A421 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 07:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (smeltpunt.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D5513C45B for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 07:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from adsl-dc-2f63f.adsl.wanadoo.nl [83.116.148.63] (helo=research.englishbreakfastnetwork.org) (authen=adridg) by smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.11) with ESMTP id l4O7x7ot012342; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:59:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:00:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <000501c79db1$bb131270$6401a8c0@barely> In-Reply-To: <000501c79db1$bb131270$6401a8c0@barely> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4759266.dzmxhMMC9A"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705241000.06545.groot@kde.org> Cc: scott Subject: Re: what about highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:59:09 -0000 --nextPart4759266.dzmxhMMC9A Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 --nextPart4759266.dzmxhMMC9A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGVUYGdqzuAf6io/4RAnn9AKCSAJbXI2eVEy4OVMtJGElvLZPR/ACfVRGi q1Pss+RSnmyjJf2vYfVgePM= =Nq4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4759266.dzmxhMMC9A--