Hight Point RAID 370/372 Chipset problems

[Chadder007]

This is a possible solution to RAID problems involving HIGHT POINT controllers and WinXP/2000.
(ex: Abit's KR7A RAID, Adaptec 1200A PCI)

This is for anyone having data corruption of the HIVE in WinXP/2K and trouble partitioning data.

Try putting both Hard Drives on the SECOND IDE Channel on the RAID controller and set one as MASTER and the other as SLAVE. There is indeed an issue with High Point controllers that has not been officially addressed yet. (Specifically the 370/372 model)
Hight Point is working on new Chip Revisions for this....and BIOS updates. Hopefully they won't need to recall all motherboards and controller boards with this model of chips.
As for RAID 0+1 using 4 IDE Drives, I have not been able to check out the usefulness or stability on the Hight Point controllers.

 

[Bad Dude]

I don't have any problem so far with mine. Can you give us more details on the problem?
Thanks.

 

[ToBeMe]

So, where's this info coming from???? Is there a link to an article concerning this problem???? I've used boards with these controllers for quite some time and while I like Promise better, I've not had any problems! As for moving the drives to secondary.................hard to do when your running 4 drives................

 

[Carrot44]

I could never get this controller to work with Win2K please pm or otherwise let me know whats the issue.
Always a broken stripe or not able to write to one of the drives.

Ken

 

[RanDum72]

I've had Highpoint 370,370A and now 372A based controllers. I have yet to lose a stripe or have any problems.

 

[Chadder007]

This solution was relayed to me by a ADAPTEC technician. We have been working with an ABIT KR7A RAID and an Adaptec 1200A trying to get a MIRROR to work using two hard drives. With Windows 2000, It would say the disk was damaged and could not be formatted, with WINXP it would corrupt the HIVE and Winxp would have to be reinstalled. The technician said that HIGH POINT was working on a chip revision and BIOS update that would fix that specific problem, so for now the solution is to put both Hard Drives on the second channel of the RAID controller....this solution has fixed problems on both file servers we have using the ABIT RAID and ADAPTEC PCI board.

 

[przero]

A SCSI and RAID problem? Or just a stand alone RAID problem? On my second ABIT board with RAID 0 and no problems.