The Karma of RAID!, form A7V133 to A7V266-E

[WhiteWizard]

Hi, I'm planing to change my A7V133 for the new (almost) A7V266-E. The problem is that I allready have 2 disk on RAID 0 in the promise of the A7V133, would the 266 detect my old RAID just by plug in my disks?, or will I have to construct the RAID again using the RAID BIOS in the new board?. The problem is that when building a RAID, I remember that several portions of the disks are erased, so rebuilding the RAID in the new board will erase my data!, ANYBODY has tryied this?. Any finaly, what can I expect from WinXP pro, its a OEM version, seems not to have the activation thing.

Alejandro


A7V133
Athlon 1200@1333
512Mb PC133
Creative Anihilator II
SB Live! Platinium
2x IBM Desktar 15Gb ATA 100, 7200RPM
Win XP pro

 

[WhiteWizard]

It works fine. A Little disapointed anyway. The Promise Fastrak RAID controller was the same than the A7V133, same BIOS version and same revision. It detected my old RAID and boot Win XP. Win Xp boots at 640*480 resolution, no response for keyboard or mice, just freeze in the user pasword screen. After a hard reset, it boots normally, but redetect the "Win XP Promise Fastrack Controller", once supplied drivers, it restart Windows and no other thing were redetected.
I put the same cards that the A7V133 and respect the order and PCI slot where they were settled. Is extrange that the same drivers are used for the VIA KT266A and KT133A, but it looks evident that the new A7V266-E is just another enhanced version of the A7V133, they must been saled a lot for repeating the formula. The only diference is DDR, but I can teel is faster now, even when in the A7V133 the chip was overclocked to 1333Mhz and now I'm trying the A7V266-E at 1266Mhz.

ASUS A7V266-E
Athlon 1200@1266
Titan D5T cooler
512Mb DDR generic
2xIBM Desktar 15Gb ATA 100, 7200RPM on RAID 0
Creative Anihilator II (with Detonator drivers)
SB Live Platinium
3Com 10/100 NIC