Abit KR7A-Raid - PROBLEM recognizing ARRAY please Help

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
 

QTPie

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Dec 30, 2001
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<<what the hell can i do?? >>

NEVER, I repeat, NEVER again setup RAID 0.

If you do a search on RAID 0 in the forum, you'll see lots of ppl had the same problem.
IMO, you take a very big risk of loosing data by having RAID 0. It is not substantially faster than a regular hdd but if anything happens, you'll kick your valuable pr0n goodbye :confused:

Anyway, try to install the driver, utility sw again to see if you can fix it. (If it uses HighPoint chipset, then they have a RAID utility sw on their website.)
Good luck!
 

zhena

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this happened to me... more than once...actually while i was messing with my computer

if you haven't yet done anything (i.e. formated your drives) here is what you do:
keep the drive exactly as they are... goto the highpoint bios and create a new raid 0 array in the exact same config as the old array (the same cluster size, the same drives, exactly as it was.) it will say it's about to delete all the data on the hdd's or something. don't worry about that since it's not actually deleting anything...

then boot to dos and run NDD (norton disk doctor for dos) if you can't get ndd there is a freeware highpoint utility to do this for you

it will tell you that it found a partion(s) and ask you if you want to restore it (them)

kinda tricky... follow the prompts carefully.
 

stpfarms

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Jan 8, 2002
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If this works you will make me the HAPPIEST man alive.. i just spent 250 bucks canadianon a new MB and it didnt fix it so HOPEFULLY this will!

and i will NEVER have Raid 0 again for my server.... only on like a gaming amchine or something
 

zhena

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lemme know how it goes...
if it works after the partitions get restored you have to run ndd again, because this time it will actually check the hdd for errors..
afterwards the system should boot as usual
 

DPOverLord

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hey, Raid wise I could put a couple regular drives on those controllors and set it up just to use them like regular IDE ports right? Just making sure I am not too crazy
 

bigboxes

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I have the KT7A-RAID board. I found a FAQ page for you through mine. You should find a lot of answers here. Enjoy!

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