RAID 1 on ASUS using Intel SATA RAID one drive bad - what to do?

[Wiz]

I installed this for a friend a year or more ago and now one drive of the pair shows bad during boot. Of course XP still boots but what do I do with it now?
With my scsi RAID I have a nifty program that has stuff like auto rebuild & spare utils etc but what does this setup have?
It is an ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe mobo using Intel RAID 1 with a pair of Hitachi 160GB drives.
Thanks!

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Wiz
I installed this for a friend a year or more ago and now one drive of the pair shows bad during boot. Of course XP still boots but what do I do with it now?
With my scsi RAID I have a nifty program that has stuff like auto rebuild & spare utils etc but what does this setup have?
It is an ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe mobo using Intel RAID 1 with a pair of Hitachi 160GB drives.
Thanks!

You should be able to replace the failing drive and then have it rebuild the array. You'll have to consult the documentation for the controller/software to figure out exactly how to do it (ie, RTFM ).

If it doesn't support hot-swap, you'll have to power it down to replace the bad drive, but you should be able to rebuild it in the background.

 

[Wiz]

Yeah, "should" is the word.
I expect to see some kind of a function for that, but I don't see any on the RAID screen that comes up with "CTRL I" during boot.
Is there some kind of software that's supposed to run after the OS loads for management?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Wiz
Yeah, "should" is the word.
I expect to see some kind of a function for that, but I don't see any on the RAID screen that comes up with "CTRL I" during boot.
Is there some kind of software that's supposed to run after the OS loads for management?

Like I said, consult the documentation for the controller (ie, RTFM. ) There *must* be some sort of option for re-syncing a RAID1 array if one mirror is broken and then replaced; it's nearly worthless without that.

 

[Wiz]

Thanks, I don't have access to the original docs but I found a pdf on the ASUS site that refers to the Intel Application Accelerator. I think that's what I need, seems to have something called "Migration" in it.