- Jul 9, 2004
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Hey. I do some tech work on the side, but I'm not formally educated. I know regular stuff, but this problem is beyond my knowledge and I'm hoping to get some help from you all.
Here's the scenario. Guy brings me computer. It won't boot to WinXP. He has a laundry list of other stuff, but that's the main thing. I plug it in and turn it on, and I find out that it has a 2x80 GB disk Raid 0 array. The array happens to be on the SIL 680 raid card, which I know from experience is a terrible card.
Both disks and the card appear to be working normally. The problem as I see it is that the card doesn't recognize the two disks are supposed to be a Raid0 set. The configuration utility says that Set 1 is disk 0 PM (primary master) and Set 2 is disk 3 SS (secondary slave).
So, is there any way to get the array fixed from this state? Is it as simple as telling the card to build another Raid 0 array with the same stripe size? Is there something else I need to do?
Please help me out. Thanks.
Here's the scenario. Guy brings me computer. It won't boot to WinXP. He has a laundry list of other stuff, but that's the main thing. I plug it in and turn it on, and I find out that it has a 2x80 GB disk Raid 0 array. The array happens to be on the SIL 680 raid card, which I know from experience is a terrible card.
Both disks and the card appear to be working normally. The problem as I see it is that the card doesn't recognize the two disks are supposed to be a Raid0 set. The configuration utility says that Set 1 is disk 0 PM (primary master) and Set 2 is disk 3 SS (secondary slave).
So, is there any way to get the array fixed from this state? Is it as simple as telling the card to build another Raid 0 array with the same stripe size? Is there something else I need to do?
Please help me out. Thanks.