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A7V266-E RAID question.

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jonmullen

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I tried to boot the system to day, and it hung after searching of IDE drives attached to the Promise RAID controler. I tried the drives on other channels and on the Promise ATA100 setting. It came up fine the main IDE channel but drives are not found when I try to hook them up to the Promise contoller. Any ideas why this would start happening all of a sudden, and if not how I can get access to the data in my RAID 0 array. Thank you the help I am sure to get...I hope to get.
 
So you're saying that the drives are detected when connected to the normal IDE ports, but not to the RAID ports? I'd say that either the Raid controller is gone, or your hard drives may be flaky.
I have the same mobo, and strange problems with one of my hard drives in Raid-1. When I re-enabled the Raid software to re-scan the drives during bootup, I found out that one of my hard drives was dead. Maybe you have the same problem? It couldn't hurt I guess to run a bootup diagnostic on the drives. Or you could connect an entirely different hard drive to the Raid controller and see if that is detected.
 
. Is there a possiblity that you flashed your BIOS with the NON-RAID version update??? You say the drives are detected on the standard IDE channels. Run the mfr's non-destructive drive test with the drives on the main channels.
. Next, I would check the jumper settings on your drives. If they are WD drives, make sure they are set to Master/Standalone, NOT Master w/ Slave - WD is the only one I know of that still has diferent settings for Master.
. If those aren't the problem, then I would clear the CMOS and reset the RAID function settings. If that doesn't work, then I would try connecting another drive to your RAID channels to see if it can be detected. If it isn't, I would then buy a Promise RAID adapter card of similar spec to your on-board adapter (or RMA your mobo) and keep your fingers crossed
. Of course, before installing the PCI RAID card, disable the on-board adapter in the BIOS. Good luck.
.bh.
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