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2006-11-08 01:15:23
Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6976|Little blue planet, milky way
Hello Guys,

Some of you may or may not know that my primary gaming machine has been idle for a little over 3 months now, due to critical hardware failure. I originally suspected a drive problem, then later a controller problem, and now I seem to have put it down to the drive controller bus on my mobo, as NO drive will work in the PC, whatsoever.

Thing is: I have a couple of Sata drives in raid-5 config on a sil3114 controller. And I REALLY want to keep that data. So I'd just go replace the board you might suggest. Yes, but the dealer went belly up, so I need a new board from somewhere. Now, seeing as the board I originally chose seems to have been crap, I want another brand, and I want a RAID-5 controller (looking at Promise TX4310 currently) seperately for the sata drives.

Question: Can I KEEP my currently configured RAID-5 config/data on another controller ? I dont want to loose that data, and I dont want to get another controller based on the sil 3114, it sucks.
2006-11-08 01:25:38
joker3327
=IBF2=
+305|7052|Cheshire. UK
You can get another board that supports raid 5 but you stand a very good chance of losing your data ...a work around would be to set up a raid 5 using 2 identical drives with the new board ..then power down and replace with your old drives to try to recover the data ....you should be able to as all raid configs have to conform to set standards
2006-11-08 08:29:14
Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6976|Little blue planet, milky way
I can't boot a raid5 on two drives only. do you mean create an identical raid with identical drives ? That'll be hugely expensive (4 new drives), more so than getting an identical board. I do want to get rid of the onboard controller, but not at all costs.
2006-11-11 15:36:20
doc. josh
Member
+48|6998
iam shur u can get 1 new drive and transfer all yer stuff. thats y u dont run more then raid 0  in my opinyon
2006-11-12 04:37:45
misconfiguration
GURU
+86|6849|Indianapolis, IN
Even with a new controller, your config should lie in-tact. Just configure the controller to act in the same manner as the previous one. If you'd lose your data over something this small wouldn't RAID be obsolete in the first place? Have you looked into SoftRaid, I've been running it for 1.5 years now with a hard drive crash I was able to slap a new one in and rebuild my array.

http://slacksite.com/slackware/raid.html


^ don't be afraid to save a shit load of money!
2006-11-12 04:49:12
=Karma-Kills=
"Don't post while intoxicated."
+356|7038|England

misconfiguration wrote:

Even with a new controller, your config should lie in-tact. Just configure the controller to act in the same manner as the previous one. If you'd lose your data over something this small wouldn't RAID be obsolete in the first place? Have you looked into SoftRaid, I've been running it for 1.5 years now with a hard drive crash I was able to slap a new one in and rebuild my array.

http://slacksite.com/slackware/raid.html


^ don't be afraid to save a shit load of money!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SoftRAID!

Make it go away

Yeh i had softraid... basically avoid it. It works for normal use (eg 1 OS) but once you go beyond that (Dual boot etc) it becomes useless.
2006-11-12 07:02:49
misconfiguration
GURU
+86|6849|Indianapolis, IN

=Karma-Kills= wrote:

misconfiguration wrote:

Even with a new controller, your config should lie in-tact. Just configure the controller to act in the same manner as the previous one. If you'd lose your data over something this small wouldn't RAID be obsolete in the first place? Have you looked into SoftRaid, I've been running it for 1.5 years now with a hard drive crash I was able to slap a new one in and rebuild my array.

http://slacksite.com/slackware/raid.html


^ don't be afraid to save a shit load of money!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SoftRAID!

Make it go away

Yeh i had softraid... basically avoid it. It works for normal use (eg 1 OS) but once you go beyond that (Dual boot etc) it becomes useless.
Well the entire point of RAID would be to backup crucial Data, e.g make a network server, setup NFS or Samba and host your files. Why would you want to dual-boot on any system managing your RAID Array?

http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1102791/L

Last edited by misconfiguration (2006-11-12 07:09:24)

 

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