I have a Seagate 320 Gig HD workiing with the Win XP Pro OS with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 MB (not the DS3R to which hindsight draws my preference). I have 2 drives that work that were in a RAID array in stripe set on an ASUS A7N8X-E MB. In the old system, with the same OS noted above stopped recognizing USB drives, I thought it due to SP3, so I tried to uninstall SP3 and go back to SP2. Murphy took control of my hands ( http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/icones/smilies/fou.gif ) when the OS failed to boot, and I tried reinstalling the OS, and unfortunately when Win XP Pro asked during the install whether reformatting of the HD should be done, the overzealous Murphy answered 'yes'. The OS was never reinstalled, as I stopped at that point, realizing the error, and set the disks aside, went out, got the Gigabyte board & Seagate HD, reinstalled Win XP Pro / SP3 on the Seagate, and took to more religion on the subject of backups.
This board supports multiple SATA drives, but, unlike the DS3R sister MB, the bios has no direct reference to RAID; it configures the SATA controllers integrated in the Intel ICH10 Southbridge to AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode.
The 2 Maxtor drives from the old system are seen by the system when connected, and report to be healthy, but no attempt to reformat or address them has been done. Through Linux, I'm trying to recoveer the data - 2 prong approach (first using the old MB - new cost there, as PS died yesterday http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/icones/smilies/fou.gif - , but 2 days ago, when power was no issue, neither drive was visible on the ASUS sytem (there too, I had a single IDE drive with the same XP OS working...). The second prong is via the new Gigabyte MB where at least the drives are seen.
This brings me to a key question for both recovery and for future use of the drives, can a RAID setup in a striped set coexist in a system that is booted through a non-RAID (Seagate) drive?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Dick
This board supports multiple SATA drives, but, unlike the DS3R sister MB, the bios has no direct reference to RAID; it configures the SATA controllers integrated in the Intel ICH10 Southbridge to AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode.
The 2 Maxtor drives from the old system are seen by the system when connected, and report to be healthy, but no attempt to reformat or address them has been done. Through Linux, I'm trying to recoveer the data - 2 prong approach (first using the old MB - new cost there, as PS died yesterday http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/icones/smilies/fou.gif - , but 2 days ago, when power was no issue, neither drive was visible on the ASUS sytem (there too, I had a single IDE drive with the same XP OS working...). The second prong is via the new Gigabyte MB where at least the drives are seen.
This brings me to a key question for both recovery and for future use of the drives, can a RAID setup in a striped set coexist in a system that is booted through a non-RAID (Seagate) drive?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Dick