Keeping RAID setup on new mobo?

[letdown427]

I have an ASRock dual sata II at the moment, with a RAID 0 set-up.

Arriving tomorrow is an Ultra-D, and so, please, please, please, tell me that I will just have to install the RAID driver that comes with the Ultra-D, and not have to completely wipe my hardisks?

What will probably happen if I just plugged it straight in enabled RAID and let it try to boot? Will it just at me?

I seriously don't want to have to reinstall my OS, I did in January, and I've got it all set up so nicely now!

 

[Drisler]

You probably will have to reinstall.
Two different Raid controllers.

Backup your data, then make the switch.
and quit complaining, you should reinstall your OS anyway, after a major change like a mothebroard swap.

 

[tommo123]

what if you have a raid setup without an OS on it? just for storage etc.

shouldnt it be picked up on the new mobo?

 

[Drisler]

Originally posted by: tommo123
what if you have a raid setup without an OS on it? just for storage etc.

shouldnt it be picked up on the new mobo?

data is data. doesn't matter if it's OS data or not, it's gone.

 

[letdown427]

Originally posted by: Drisler

Originally posted by: tommo123
what if you have a raid setup without an OS on it? just for storage etc.

shouldnt it be picked up on the new mobo?

data is data. doesn't matter if it's OS data or not, it's gone.

Maaaan that sucks. Do you happen to know where Windows 2000 Pro would store all my desktop/appearance settings etc? Yes I'll google it, just hoped someone might know.

 

[stevty2889]

Raid setup isn't going to work on the new motherboard, it would have to have exactly the same raid controler, same revision, same firmware. If you switch motherboards often, your best choice would be to get a PCI or PCIe raid controller.

 

[tommo123]

ah ok. so going from a SIl to NF4 controller = data gone.

i understand that for raid 0, but what about 1 drive set as a single jbod?

basically i have a 500gig drive on a SIl port setup as a single JBOD disk and want to move to a diff pc without copying it to different drives

surely jbod should be ok (i hope)?

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: tommo123
ah ok. so going from a SIl to NF4 controller = data gone.

i understand that for raid 0, but what about 1 drive set as a single jbod?

basically i have a 500gig drive on a SIl port setup as a single JBOD disk and want to move to a diff pc without copying it to different drives

surely jbod should be ok (i hope)?

Nope.

JBOD is just RAID without the RAID part... same issues.

 

[spikespiegal]

Backup your data, then make the switch.

Complete line of bunk - please stop quoting from 'Windows 95 for dummies'.

I've moved Windows 2000 Servers with 50+ applications on them from Intel Xeon servers running SCSI to AMD opteron servers running SATA without having to re-install, so why should I have to do it with an amatuer motherboard?

The trick here is to use a common boot device that is resident on both machines. While the RAID controller isn't the same, the motherobards in question *usually* have a common IDE controller. Moving a boot drive from the RAID on motherboard 1 to the standard IDE controller on motherboard 2 will usually boot windows just fine because the driver is common to both motherboards. Not a rule, but usually. Works with Via to Via or Nvidia to Nvidia, but not from Nvidia to Via.

Another way to do do this is use a cheap, IDE or SATA raid card, and install it on the first machine before moving the drive. Then move the card over to the new motherboard, and plug the drive into it. Provided you have boot devices set properly in your BIOS, Windows will boot, whine about need drivers, and that's that.

The problem here is that stupid RAID 0, which stops the above scenario unless you can clone/ghost the system from the RAID 0 over to a single drive. If this were RAID 1 you could do it because you only need to move one drive over to the new motherboard.

Otherwise, the Asrock and UltraD will have to be using the same RAID controller chipset to move it without forcing a re-install. Note: I said chipset and not motherboard brand because for all intents and purposes the brand of motherboard is irrelavant. Only the chipset controllers matter and the drivers used to run them, which are usually the same regardless of motherboard brand.

 

[obeseotron]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Raid setup isn't going to work on the new motherboard, it would have to have exactly the same raid controler, same revision, same firmware. If you switch motherboards often, your best choice would be to get a PCI or PCIe raid controller.

It doesn't always need to be that extreme a match. In some cases it does but in others, RAID arrays will transfer between different controllers of just the same brand. Nforce3 to Nforce4 or one Sil controller to another usually works.