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old raid array on new mobo?

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ThePiston

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I have a raid array mirrored on 2 drives. They are fine, but the mobo got fried. I bought another mobo of same vendor with same drivers and such (Gigabyte). Do I even ned to create and aray or just plug them into the new mobo?
 
I was about to post a very similar question. Instead, I'll add on to this thread. This is by no means a hijack 😛

My question was that if I had a striped RAID array (striped as in mode 0), when I transfer the drives to a new motherboard, will I keep everything?
 
Yes. Just make sure not to say 'OK' or 'Yes' when it asks "Clear MBR?" or something in that sort. As long as you're using the same disk controllers (ICH7R, 8R, 9R, and MCP55, etc.) you should be able to carry over existing arrays to a new board.
 
Ok, - so let me get this perfectly straight (family photos on this array)... all of the drivers are already installed in Windows and I have Raid/IDE in the BIOS set to enabled. I already have the Raid splash screen where it says "no drives found". I need to plug in my old drives and when it finds them, it'll ask me to ?clear MBR?" and I say yes? sounds easy enough. Iwas hoping it would just popup as the same array without any interaction...
 
in case anyone else wants to know - i plugged them in an everything went smooth. it didn't ask em for anything, it just worked like it always had.
 
I have a similar question.. If I switch from a silicon image 3112 pci raid card, and move to a 4 port silicon image 3114 pci raid card, will I be able to keep my existing raid without loosing any data? Different brand of cards, but basicly the same chipset.
 
Well i know the 3114 chipset is just the 4 port version of 3112 (at least i assume), but I don't know if they use the same exact driver.
 
should be good to go - just plug them into the same port (o or 1) that you had them in prior. I don't know if that has any bearing, but I did just to make sure.
 
Since the chipset is not exactly the same, there is a small chance that it won't work, or more worrisome, that it'll seem to work, but will result in some data corruption. Remember that the "drivers" you install are often designed to work with multiple chipset variants; that doesn't necessarily mean the same part of the driver code will be running with each different chipset. I'd try it, but would certainly back up beforehand. You might also try contacting Silicon Image.
 
i'd at least give it a shot of putting old array onto new mobo - couldn't hurt to try, especially if you have the option of losing your data anyway
 
well i decided to put windows on the new 750gig drives instead of the older 250g drives. So i have to wipe anyways.. Thanks for the help Piston
 
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