Abit KR7A-Raid - PROBLEM recognizing ARRAY please Help

stpfarms

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Jan 8, 2002
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Dont get me wrong, I am a huge Abit fan until now....

Here are my specs

Athlon XP 1900+ Retail with Retail fan
4 Maxtor 5T03H03 ATA 100 Hard drives
Abit KR7A Raid MB latest BIOS
Micron 512 MB Cas 2.5 ram
nothing is overclocked

i set up 2 raid configurations.....
Raid 0 for the first 2 drives
Raid 0 for the next 2 drives

after about a month, i booted up and all of a sudden it said

Array
Stripe #1 Maxtor 5t03H3 "Serial Number" removed

i lost everything EVERYTHING... the hard drive wasnt removed and i booted up into the Max Plus Floppy drive software and sector by sector tested the drives and they are both fine... then a week later the same thing happened to my other array

120 Gigs not backed up down the drain!!!

what the hell can i do?? anyone see this problem... the drives are fine, i think the raid controller must be failing! im upset!! a lot of important info was on them

i ordered a KR7-Raid 133R and it should be here soon... i hope i can just replace the motherboard and all will be fine!!! it will recognize the array again and im set... am i in a dream world????

Steve

FYI

In the Controller BIOS it recognizes both drives just doesnt recognize it as an array any more