Hiya,
I have long had a simple RAID 0 setup controlled by an Intel Matrix RAID controller on my gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P board. It's just two 250 GB drives. I have a separate 500 GB drive (the boot drive) which is controlled by a separate (Gigabyte) SATA controller on the board.
I recently had to re-install Vista and while messing with the BIOS to get it to recognize the boot drive as an acceptable system drive, I accidentally shut off RAID mode in the system BIOS. I did not at any point actually delete a RAID volume in the (separate) RAID BIOS. When I re-enabled RAID in the system BIOS, it detected both disks on the RAID controller, but one was listed as a 'non-member' while the second was fine - but the RAID volume failed because it requires both. The Intel RAID setup BIOS utility that you can get to from your boot screen just lets you create and delete RAID volumes - not add or remove disks to existing RAID volumes. I know there's a more involved windows Matrix utility for Windows, but until I'm done re-installing Vista I can't get to that.
My question is: is there any reason why, after the above, my actual RAID volume would be destroyed, or is it simply a matter of getting the right utility? Has anyone had this happen before? Am I being clear about what happened?
Thanks!
Sept
I have long had a simple RAID 0 setup controlled by an Intel Matrix RAID controller on my gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P board. It's just two 250 GB drives. I have a separate 500 GB drive (the boot drive) which is controlled by a separate (Gigabyte) SATA controller on the board.
I recently had to re-install Vista and while messing with the BIOS to get it to recognize the boot drive as an acceptable system drive, I accidentally shut off RAID mode in the system BIOS. I did not at any point actually delete a RAID volume in the (separate) RAID BIOS. When I re-enabled RAID in the system BIOS, it detected both disks on the RAID controller, but one was listed as a 'non-member' while the second was fine - but the RAID volume failed because it requires both. The Intel RAID setup BIOS utility that you can get to from your boot screen just lets you create and delete RAID volumes - not add or remove disks to existing RAID volumes. I know there's a more involved windows Matrix utility for Windows, but until I'm done re-installing Vista I can't get to that.
My question is: is there any reason why, after the above, my actual RAID volume would be destroyed, or is it simply a matter of getting the right utility? Has anyone had this happen before? Am I being clear about what happened?
Thanks!
Sept
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