Question about RAID

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Okay, I have two identical IBM DTLA 307045 harddrives. 45 GB each, and spin at 7200 rpms.<br><br>I also have an onboard Promise IDE raid controller.<br>I had set up my harddrives to be mirrored.<br><br>Or at least I thought I did...<br><br>Today, I booted my computer, and the Promise BIOS said:<br>"No Array Detected"<br>And gave me two options: "define array", "boot normally"<br><br>Now, this kind of worried me, since it is supposed to tell me if one of the drives will fail. So, I started the "Array Builder Utility" to check my harddisks.<br><br>It seems that it only detected my one harddisk. The other was completely non-existant, according to the RAID utility.<br><br>I remember just before moving that I had changed the cables around in my computer, but thought I had hooked them back up correctly. Well, it turns out that I didn't. Only the computer didn't tell me that. So the mirrored harddisks that I thought I had, don't exist. They are not in synch with each other.<br><br>I looked for the RAID info in my manual, but remembered that they didn't give a diagram for connecting the cables. I had to go online for that.<br><br>The problem is that I don't remember how to connect them, nor do I have the site where I got the info from. ASUS's site is no help. And Promise's site didn't help me either. I either was not looking in the proper places, or the sites don't have the info.<br>So... how do I connect them? I have an ASUS A7V266-E. It has onboard sound, and an onboard RAID controller.<br>There are four IDE sockets. I also have a CDRW drive and a DVD drive on the same channel. <p><br><img src=http://www.xmenclan.org/avatars/ashaman2.jpg width=150 align=left><br><left><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Mercenary</a><br><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>Member of the XMEN</a><br>Have a Nice Day!<br><br>"Politics, war, martial arts;<br>these are tools to bend the <br>universe to your will."</left><br><br><br><p><i>Edited by: <a href=http://pub3.ezboard.com/uxmengambit.sho ... ge=EN>XMEN Gambit</a> <img src=http://www.xmenclan.org/images/x.gif> at: 7/14/02 8:16:26 pm</i></p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Iceman]

The first two channels are your standard IDE channels. The other two should be the raid channels. I would connect both drives as master on those two secondary channels. Also, if I remember correctly you have to go into the bios to tell it how to handle the raid drives, either as raid...or it treats them like a secondary IDE controller...that is what it sounds like right now. <p><table border="0"><tr><td><embed align="left" src="http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/ezice.swf" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="217" height="166" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... <td><table border="0" style='Filter: Shadow(Color=#BB1403,Direction=255)'><tr><td><span class='usertitle'>XMEN Iceman [DTM]<br>Founder and Leader of the Base Tribes XMEN Clan<br>Proud member of the Dragon Talon Mercenaries teamplayers Guild<br>Citizen of New Fenecia<br><br>"You weren't much of a challenge" - T2 bot after killing Iceman<br><br>- click on avatar for links - no, not sausage links!</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

but be careful!! If you try to set up RAID now, and do it wrong, you may lose what you've got. <br><br> <p><img src=http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif border=0 align=left>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br><br>Though a program be but three lines long,<br> someday it will have to be maintained.<br> <i>- The Tao of Programming</i><br>Life is complex; it consists of real and imaginary parts.</p><i></i>

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Crap!<br><br> <p><br><img src=http://www.xmenclan.org/avatars/ashaman2.jpg width=150 align=left><br><left><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Mercenary</a><br><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>Member of the XMEN</a><br>Have a Nice Day!<br><br>"Politics, war, martial arts;<br>these are tools to bend the <br>universe to your will."</left><br><br><br><p><i>Edited by: <a href=http://pub3.ezboard.com/uxmengambit.sho ... ge=EN>XMEN Gambit</a> <img src=http://www.xmenclan.org/images/x.gif> at: 7/14/02 8:16:26 pm</i></p></p><i></i>