Rescue RAID 0

[mayagrafix]

The Mobo (socket 478 P4) on my old system went south . I had a raid 0 setup made with IDE drives using the onboard RAID controller chip. The HD's are ok, it was the Mobo that died (RIP). :beer:

My question is: if I install a RAID controller card on my new box with the old IDE Raid 0 drives, will all of the previous data be recognized by the new PC? or will I have to reformat, etc. or reform or whatever to get them to show up?

Thanx for any help :)


Notes:
The PCI controller card is necessary because the new box only has SATA conectors and the RAID drives are IDE (or ATA).

For reference>
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1621

[cw823]

Unless it was the same exact raid controller it probably will not recognize the RAID. There are however data recovery tools for RAID hard drives that I've heard about, but anytime you run RAID0 with no backup, catastrophic data failure is always a possibility.

Just be glad they weren't the new Seagate drives that now RIP. ;)

[mayagrafix]

Thanks for the input. Fortunately I did have most of the files backed up, but no backup for last 6 months. One grows complacent in old age I guess.

So if I can get a PCI raid card with same controller it might work then?

Whats the story on the Seagate drives?

[cw823]

Thanks for the input. Fortunately I did have most of the files backed up, but no backup for last 6 months. One grows complacent in old age I guess.

So if I can get a PCI raid card with same controller it might work then?

Whats the story on the Seagate drives?

That link you posted, it looks like it's some kind of proprietary Gigabyte RAID system, not sure what controller that would have, but very doubtful that you'd find an addon raid controller that would utilize the same chip.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=592386

[shadowdr]

Thanks for the input. Fortunately I did have most of the files backed up, but no backup for last 6 months. One grows complacent in old age I guess.

So if I can get a PCI raid card with same controller it might work then?

Whats the story on the Seagate drives?
It looks like a promise fastrack by the manual but it also lists the IT IT8212F chipset. You would pretty much have to identify the onboard chip used and get an add in card that uses the same one. There were at least two in the manual. They are kind of old so you might have to look really hard to find a compatable pci card that matches. I did happen upon one that say's that it is the chip used but it still could be different. Located here (http://www.microtron2000.com/IDE_ADAPTERS-ITE_IT8212F_UDMA_133_IDE_RAID_PCI_Controller_Card. html), never heard of the site but a controller that old will be hard to find.

Good luck.

[fritzman]

If you can't track down something with that chipset... I've been pointing people towards a program called 'Active Undelete' which has always had excellent results. http://www.active-undelete.com/faq-raids-types.htm

Download the trial and give it a whirl. Industry standard software, and no adware/spyware.