Raid0 died already

[dgk]

That was quick. I just put it together two days ago using two 120gb WD on my trusty old MSI K7T266 (raid on board). Installed OS in one partition. Played a bit. Didn't even partition the other 200gb. Last night I was ignoring the Raid and concentrating on why the current boot drive kept seeing the CDR and DVDR as PIO only. Finally removed nVidea drivers and installed regular IDE drivers. Now the two drives are back to UDMA, big success.

Figured things were going so well I'd install an LED to connect to the Raid IDE LED port on the MB. Brought system down, plugged in wire, booted. Light works. Raid didn't. Into the controller I go, I see that one drive is fine and the other is 25gb. Not good. Two identical drives have different drive names. Only one is correct.

Corruption? Did I just jostle a cable? Reseat cables. Turn back on. Different name this time and all the space. Try deleting and recreating raid since I read that the data isn't lost and recreating the array the same way should reaccess the data. Nope, still some problem with one drive. Drive failure? Cable failure? Who knows? Grumbling, happy that I did at least ghost it before it died, I go to sleep. Plus, the light works.

 

[everclock]

So all of your data is backed up right? Try formatting each drive individually.

Run a diagnostic test on each of the drives, ur drive manufacturer should have these on their site.

 

[stan03]

haha i got a kick out of the way you wrote that. try running a diagnostic on the drives

 

[LtBlue14]

brilliantly written ^^

 

[dgk]

Happiness returns. I replaced a cable and recreated the array with the original settings (performance/AudioVideo). The data is back! Odd that one drive name is still a bit different than the other. I could have sworn they were the same. But the array is back, the data is back, it boots fine and seems to work fine. And, special bonus, the LED still works. Now if I could just find some way to have it work without sticking out the side of the case. That cat's already been batting it around. Ha, a case mod to run a third LED. Where is that drill?

Plus I really need some of those rounded cables, preferably with only one device on each. The PC Fair got snowed out last weekend and there isn't another until next weekend. I guess I can hold out that long. And if not, there's always Compusa.