I have an Intel 965OT motherboard (genuine Intel brand) and am running the embeded matrix storage on RAID 0 with 2 SATA seagate 400gb hd's. This was working great for a long time. I also had a single 200gb drive in the machine not in the raid set. So the 800gb total was in one set (bootable c: w/ xp on it), and the 200gb was by itself (d
I wanted to run an experiment, so I unplugged the raid. Unfortunately, I unplugged one of the 400's and the 200, not the 2 400's. Boot and do the quick dope-slap at the list of discovered HD's on BIOS post. I shut it off and plug the right ones in - didn't even really let it boot. But now the raid doesn't work. Even thought the drives are all plugged back in and nothing has changed on the drives, the matrix storage thing tells me that the RAID set is unbootable and "failed". What the heck? If I just unplug a raid drive and and then plug it in again, it fails and won't let me get my data back!?! Anybody have any ideas on how to get my raid back? It sounds like the raid thinks a drive failed and just needs to be told "no, its ok - try to recover". The bios RAID offers fun things like create/delete/exit which is no help. Can I just delete and recreate the raid with the same drives and not lose the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated - I don't want to have to reconstruct this data...
Thanks
I wanted to run an experiment, so I unplugged the raid. Unfortunately, I unplugged one of the 400's and the 200, not the 2 400's. Boot and do the quick dope-slap at the list of discovered HD's on BIOS post. I shut it off and plug the right ones in - didn't even really let it boot. But now the raid doesn't work. Even thought the drives are all plugged back in and nothing has changed on the drives, the matrix storage thing tells me that the RAID set is unbootable and "failed". What the heck? If I just unplug a raid drive and and then plug it in again, it fails and won't let me get my data back!?! Anybody have any ideas on how to get my raid back? It sounds like the raid thinks a drive failed and just needs to be told "no, its ok - try to recover". The bios RAID offers fun things like create/delete/exit which is no help. Can I just delete and recreate the raid with the same drives and not lose the data? Any help would be greatly appreciated - I don't want to have to reconstruct this data...
Thanks