Setting up RAID 1 / totally confused and lost!!!

[coolman7]

I just installed a 2nd hard drive and am trying to set up a RAID 1 array. The new drive is formatted and blank and the other has all my data on it.

They are both WD 120gb with 8MB cache. I'm not even sure what to set the jumpers to. The drive with data is connected to IDE 1, CDROM as slave to IDE 2, and new blank drive to IDE 3.

Windows recognizes the drive and has installed it and they are named as 1. (drive w/ data)WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 2. (formatted blank drive) ITE DISK ARRAY 0 SCSI DISK DEVICE.

However when I boot, the bios does not recognize the drive. It shows IDE channel 0 MASTER as the drive with data and channel 1 slave as CDROM, the rest say NONE.

When the GigaRAID boots it only recognizes drive 0 ( DETECTED) and drive 1,2, and 3 say NOT DETECTED and a message appears that says " NO DISK RESERVED FOR RAID USE, RAID DISABLED".

I have made sure that RAID was enabled in BIOS and even tried enabling
and disabling drive 1 MASTER RAID in BIOS with no success. :disgust:

Will I have to reformat both drives and then re-install windows or can I set this up as I have it.


This is my first time doing this & any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!!

 

[shoRunner]

you more than likely need sata drives

 

[lansalot]

Nothing there about the motherboard or other config details. If you have IDE raid, then you should be able to set your existing drive up as source and mirror to the second. But without details, probably not much help will be forthcoming :/

 

[coolman7]

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro nforce3 250 board
AMD 754 2800+
1.1 gb ddr - sdram
Nvidia Gforce 6600
WIN XP pro sp2


I do have IDE RAID.

Not sure how much more detailed you need than whats there?

 

[lansalot]

Why is windows recognizing " (formatted blank drive) ITE DISK ARRAY 0 SCSI DISK DEVICE. " ?

Have you somehow set your new drive up as an array? If so, remove it.

IDE3 (new disk) should show up in the BIOS - if your BIOS is set to auto.

A small tip by the way: consider backing everything up before mirroring - in case you build the mirror the wrong way round.

 

[coolman7]

With all due respect, if I knew WHY it was happening, I would not need help!!

BIOs is all set for AUTO and I even tried to get BIOS to recognize by selecting AUTO maunally, but nothing comes up.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks much!!

 

[lansalot]

So quick to type your first line, you didn't answer my second line. That's the important one.

But, I'm sure the someone else you request will be along soon to help you out further.

 

[coolman7]

I think so.

Have a good evening lansalot!

 

[lansalot]

Still didn't answer the second line though....

 

[montag451]

Careful - When you set up a RAID, it is possible that the data on both drives may be destroyed.

Hope you have backed up

 

[coolman7]

other than windows recognizing the drive, if I did do something, I sure don't know what it could be

 

[coolman7]

I would not like to lose my data, but I would not cry over it, nothing very important anyway. Would I lose all data? should I just start over with 2 blank drives?

Thanks!

 

[coolman7]

Here are two posts from techguy.org that gave me solutions on the first go around!! These guys are Great, check them out!!

http://forums.techguy.org/t357410.html

anandtech, you have some stiff competition!! Get to work!!