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Any boot software that will check drives on a RAID controller?

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BigPete

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My old computer was working just fine configured on a striped set. Now, I want to change the configuration and changed it to a mirrored set so I made the necessary changes, etc. Inserted the windows CD, F6 and everything appears to be going smoothly. When the computer rebooted, it got past the part where the RAID controllers BIOS is initialized and then the computer just rebooted without going to any other screens. I've never come across anything like this and I'm at a loss because the RAID controller utility and windows setup both detect the drives without any issues.

I just set it up as a striped set again and everything appears to be working so far.

At any rate, is there any software that is able to examine drives on a RAID controller? I would rather not have to start pulling these things out and putting them on the regular IDE channel.

Also, why would everything work fine with a striped set configured but not with a mirrored set? That is just odd. I'm at a loss.
 
Someone help me out here please. The computer works fine when configured in a striped set. However, when I configure it with a mirrored set it just reboots over and over.
 
I dont think there is new firmware available. I did, however, try different drives and the samething happens. This is very strange because, like I said, it works 100% with a striped set and everything appears to work 100% with a mirrored set until windows is done copying the installation files and reboots the computer, then it goes into an endless reboot loop.

The motherboard has a builtin RAID controller. The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra. For the love of god, please tell me I'm doing something wrong. This is frustrating!
 
Ok, for anyone else who might come across a similar problem, save yourself the frustration and attempt to delete the "reserved sector" first. As I understand, the reserved sector is part of the drive set aside at the time you create the array and it holds the information regarding the array. I guess I can see why not deleting that before changing the array type can cause an issue. /cheers
 
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