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flores417   03-03-2009 at 03:17:50 PM

I have gigabyte-MA790FX-D5S i updated the bios from F5 to F7 to accommodate my new phenom II 940 BE. i have a 120gb HD and to sata optical devices on the ATI controller and 2 WD 500gb HD on the gigabyte controller in a striped configuration. when i updated my bios i have no access to my raid but windows asks me to format the remaining amount of space approx. 450gb. is it possible that i am missing a bios setting or driver or do i have to recreate the raid and learn to back things up more often. thanks in advance for any helpful comments.

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   03-03-2009 at 05:56:59 PM
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I can't really say about nVidia stuff - I hate them anyways - but it's unconscionable that a driver update for a controller would kill a RAID; anyway - the best policy with RAID0s is to do an image backup as soon as you're 'happy' with them, i.e., consider them 'volatile' as they aren't repairable like RAID1s...

GB GA-X48-DS5 w/f8a BIOS - Q9550 stepE0 @ 3.825Ghz:
8Gb (4x2) 1066 G.Skill F2-8500CL5D @ 1080 (DDR2-8640) 5-5-5-15 on 2.4(6:5)mult/1333strap...
CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000 w/Silverstone SST-CMD01 ESA 5ch fan controller/4ch temp sensor:
4 150Gb WD Velociraptors in two RAID0 pair-OSs & swaps; 2 1Tb WD RE3s in RAID1-data; 1 Sg 1.5Tb backups...
Multiboot via BootIt NextGeneration:
VistaUltimateX86/VistaUltimateX64/XpProX86/XpProX64(courtesy of TechNet)
SBD!


Message edited by bilbat on 03-03-2009 at 05:57:26 PM
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flores417   03-05-2009 at 01:17:12 AM
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i was looking in my device manager and i found a SCSI/Raid Host controller with a question mark wondering if that could possibly be the missing driver for the raid. i just dont see how i lost the raid with a bios update.

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   03-05-2009 at 01:34:12 AM
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B%tch at nVidia - it's their creation! And while you're at it, b%tch at 'em for me, too, for hijacking the whole ESA 'open standard' to only work on nVidia-sourced chipsets! 'Open standard my #ss - just ask 'em for the SDK, if it's so open...

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Jahren   03-06-2009 at 05:34:46 PM
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its not lost.
I recovered my data after a motherboard falure (change from asus p5q pro to gigabyte ud3p) using the software called "disk scavenger"

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