HELP on RAID on A7N8X mobo. I screwed something up...

[Quazar]

I was setting up a Raid 1 w/ 2 SATA Seagate 120Gig drives.

I did a low level format on one drive.

I then set the raid up with the Copy option.

I then rebooted, except I unplugged one of the drives. As a result when I booted it said that the raid was set up wrong and it disabled the raid.

So I Plugged the other drive back in. Same error. If I try to access the raid controler I get the same error. and 2 sets of numbers 5 times then it boots into windows on the IDE drives.

I cant access the raid bios, I cant change any of the drives. It sees the drives but then says device not found and disables the raid.

I need help please.

Quazar

[Someone Stupid]

Not sure how the bios is setup exactly for it onboard, never was found of them. Try clearing the CMOS with a jumper, I doubt it has it's own seperate bios, if it does, it most likely has a jumper to clear it as well.

[Quazar]

Man I posted this question on 3 forums and got 0 help. Thats when you know you have a really really really big problem. When no one know what to say.

I had never done a Raid before and really hadn't used disk manager in WIN XP, so I was kind of clueless how you partition the drive. Which lead to the mistake I made.

Basically the raid bois corrupted when I did this bonehead move. I tried resetting and even re-flashing the bios but to no avail. So I looked though the older bios versions to find a different raid bios. I ended up flashing the board with the 1004 bios. That downgraded the raid bios as well and I was able to access the drives again.

So the raid 1 is up and running. Now I just have to get WIN XP installed on it and I can wipe my hands of the nightmareish learning experiance.

[dajogejr]

Make sure you get the latest BIOS for that board, 1007.

Make sure you look at your board revision, get the BIOS in accordance with that.

Why would you set up a RAID, shut down, and remove a drive?

You're begging for trouble...

Break the RAID Array before you try that again.

And...if you used RAID 0, you'd be hosed anyways....you need both drives.

RAID 1, if you broke the RAID properly, you might have a chance....

Do yourself a favor, make a driver floppy with the Silicon Image 3112 driver for the RAID controller on that board. When XP asks for it in setup, you know what to do from here...