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RAID problem: Invalid Raid drive

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Name: suneni
Date: December 27, 2006 at 08:34:08 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: amd2800+/512
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Hi
I have a SII 3114 PCI Raid card with 4 Sata disks in a Rais 0+1. Today when I started Windows, the raid disk was not recognised.
The card is recognised, but not the disks. At restart both the card and the disks are recognised, but in the card BIOS it says: "Invalid Raid drive".

The Rebuild option returns a message tha it is only for raid 1 sets.
The Resolv Conflicts option says "no conflicts exist"
The Java SataRAID GUI program in windows does not recognise any disks.

Do I dare to delete the raid set and create a new one? Will my data be erased?

Should I buy a new PCI card and put the disks there?

What could be wrong?
Googling tells me that others have expirienced this, but the only soultion I have seen is for Raid 1 sets, where it is possible to put one of the direves on another controller and copy data from there. But I wouldnt know how to do that with a 0+1 set.
Please help, I am totally stock!



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Response Number 1
Name: OtheHill
Date: December 27, 2006 at 08:37:59 Pacific
Reply:

Take a look here, doesn't appear to be good.
http://www.acnc.com/04_01_0_1.html


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Response Number 2
Name: suneni
Date: December 28, 2006 at 01:29:51 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks. But I have had several disk failures in my Raid system before an I was always able to rebuild - or at least access my data. So it is not entirely correct that a 0+1 is not fail safe..


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Response Number 3
Name: suneni
Date: December 28, 2006 at 10:46:16 Pacific
Reply:

Will I delete data on the disks if I delete tre array in the card BIOS and create a new smilar one?


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Response Number 4
Name: suneni
Date: January 4, 2007 at 13:30:38 Pacific
Reply:

Noone who has any idea?


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Response Number 5
Name: suneni
Date: January 4, 2007 at 13:40:57 Pacific
Reply:

Noone who has any idea?


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