Same chipset required to access data off RAID-0 hard drives?

[Phoenixhunter]

Over the weekend, my Asus A7V333-R motherboard bit the dust. The vocal post utility stated that there was a CPU failure. So I threw in my old Athlon 1800+ XP. No go. So I figure the motherboard is toast (or at least the part that the CPU connects to).

Problem is, I have been running a RAID 0 configuration with two 80GB hard drives. At first I figured I'd just get a new motherboard with onboard RAID, and make the necessary adjustments for the hard drives and I'd be all set. Well I'd like to at least have a more up-to-date motherboard with AGP 8x, functional USB 2.0, etc, plus those are more available than the Asus A7V333-R is.

After talking with a few other techs, I was told that I'd need the exact same RAID chipset (Promise 20276). Is this true? Are there any PCI cards with that chipset that anyone knows of? (I searched a fair bit).

 

[redbeard1]

I don't know about promise, but I moved an array from a really old adaptec card to a new one with no issues.

My guess would be that promise would use the same algorithms on most of their cards, so there would be a chance to have it recognized by a new card.

 

[Phoenixhunter]

Anyone else have experience with this?

 

[DaFinn]

Another chipset will not necessarily recognize your array. Also, did you use the std. settings for that array (stripe size etc.). If not, even another promise might not recognize it, and adjusting the settings normally requires formatting the array... I only have experience with Adaptec and Silicon Image, so Promise might be different though.

 

[Phoenixhunter]

Any possibility of doing any harm by trying (ie not doing anything more than plugging it in and opening up the RAID bios)?

 

[Phoenixhunter]

Is there a better forum I could ask?