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Abit KR7A-Raid - PROBLEM recognizing ARRAY please Help

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stpfarms

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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
 
A lesson to be learned, don't use Raid 0 with important data on it. Get a Raid 5 card if you want a backup.
 
once the stripe is gone .... your pretty much done . one thing you may want to try (now that your data is lost anyway) is putting all four of your disks on a single array instead of using 2 seperate ones. that would give you some monster performance, plus maybe clear up the issue of you losing your stripe becuz your controller is only dealing with one array instead of 2. if you feel like forfitting half your space for security, you can setup a raid 0 + 1 array with all 4, and just use 2 of the HDDs as backup. im a fiend, id setup all 4 in an array 😉
 
You might get lucky if you havent done anything else with them since, ie tried to recover them yet.

I would get a raid 5 card if you already have four drives,
That will let you set up all 4 as one array using stripe set with parity, it will be fast and backed up.
That would give you the best performance and the best data protection.
I believe you need at least 3 for raid 5.
 
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