theoretical question

[Strawberrymom]

If i install the raid 133 drivers for my motehrboard and then remove the fasttak ata100 card from my system and attach the hd's to the raid setup will that hose the OS?

 

[Strawberrymom]

anyone?

 

[cleverhandle]

Well, even if you have the onboard controller is a Promise (do they make ATA133 yet?), I kinda doubt it's gonna work. Promise claims that an array can be swapped to a controller of the same model. But I suspect that the ATA133 is not "close enough" to the ATA100 to do this. If the onboard controller is a Highpoint, then there's no way it will work. In any event, you can always try it - worst case is that the disk just won't be recognized. They won't be wiped or anything.

edit: I was sort of assuming you were using RAID 0. If you're using RAID 1, then maybe you can move them to a totally different controller. Promise claims that this is possible with mirrored drives, though I've heard of people having problems with it.

 

[PH0ENIX]

Even if Promise swore blind that it would work, I still wouldn't do it without a working backup.

Mirrored drives should be easy enough, after all if it doesn't see the mirror, the data on one of the drives will still be there, so you can create a new mirror.
Thats theoretical of course. 😉

If it's RAID0, like I say I wouldn't try it. There's just too big a chance that it wont work. Of course I know that with my Raid Controller (SCSI), if I remove a drive, it says it fails, but If I put it back in, when it rebuilds the array it sees the data is still on the 'new' drive, and it re-builds without loosing any data.

Because of that, I know in my situation I could always go back to the first controller if it didn't work. But in your case, once you break that array, it could be gone.

There's only one way to be sure... Backup!

😀

 

[QTPie]

why don't you give it a shot and let us knows.