ICH10R raid set portability

[sgrinavi]

Help.

I thought one of the advantages to using the onboard RAID was that you could install your raid array on another board (that has the same chipset) and it would find the disks and go on with life....

I have taken all of my current disks from one board to another without issue, but it seems that going from my Rampage II Extreme to a P6X58 is not so simple. I was going to reformat my boot array anyhow so I could use the SATA 6 ports, but it'd be nice if I could just get my (RAID 0+1) data array on-line without going back to my back-up.

Am I missing something here?

PS, please, I already know on-board RAID sucks, so don't have to remind me (LOL)

EDIT: No, the disks are not plugged into the SATA6 ports, the Intel RAID utility sees them, but does not recognize them as part of any array.

 

[sgrinavi]

Windows 7 repair disk and a back-up saved the day! I had both arrays back up in a couple hours. WOO HOO. I might have lost an hours worth of data (my daily back-ups run at 8:00 pm, I think I shut down at 9:00 the day before I lost my system )

SO, no, ICH10R portability is not guaranteed.....