anyone familiar with RAID 1?

[directhex]

unbranded SiI0680A-based card, all drives are spinning fine, and arrays are primary & secondary masters for array 0, primary and secondary slaves for array 1

& system simply wouldn't boot from ANYTHING with the card plugged in, regardless of droves plugged in - e.g. wouldn't boot from CD, plugged into the regular southbridge IDE controller, nor from floppy, with the card plugged in - meaning i couldn't try & re-flash it.

ended up tossing the thing in the sink. will hit maplin for a replacement later

[Barakka]

Fair enough

Mine are a Promise on-board and a Highpoint on-board I think, but I did look into getting a RAID card before I got the board with the Promise on-board and I noticed that most of them only supported one array at once. The cards that supported 2 or more simultaneous arrays were a lot more expensive

[Rythmic]

Sounds like a dead card - I used to have an unbranded RAID card based on the same chipset and managed (briefly) to get two RAID 0 array on it.

[directhex]

ordered a highpoint rocketraid from komplett.
should be here tomorrow

[directhex]

the rocketraid's fitted. windows threw a fit, do i backed up & started again.

and...

omg

it just works, it's fast, the management software is not only easier to use, but supports scheduling of array verification, can connect remotely to the array control service, etc etc etc



buy highpoint!!!

[Rythmic]

Fantastic - glad it wasn't anything more serious

[bledd]

is this SATA or PATA btw?>

and how much was the card

[directhex]

PATA, and thirty five quid plus express shipping from vikingland - tho there's a whole range of highpoint cards, including 8-drive pata & sata cards

[Agent]

uber bump

can you link me this card jo ?
Im looking at getting a new SATA card myself. Still think highly of it after using it for a while now ?

[directhex]

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=111198&cks=PRL is what i'm using

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=119239&cks=PRL is the sexy 8-drive version

and yes, it still works fine, no problems at all, so i still think very highly of it. the sii0680a was driving me up the wall with problems, whereas the highpoint really just works

i even updated the bios without it keeling over & dying

[Agent]

ta

considering http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=117187&cks=PRL