Lost My RAID 0 Stripe! help Pleeese!!

MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
edited November 2003 in Hardware
Guess the title says it all.

I know you guys have a better handle on this than me. I'd like to know what I should do. I have a BIOS saviour and I switched it over. There are the exact same settings on both BIOS but nothing improved so I went back.

I went here:

http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=4&fcid=7#174

and I see there are a few options such as raidrb, mrecover2, testdisk.
I also found this thread:

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4110
I have an onboard highpoint 370 raid, and I had 2 WD800JB at Raid 0 go kaput on me! The raid bios couldn't find the raid and said, "broken disk array', and that one of my disks had failed.

So i tried raidrb and other methods that would try to recover with out deleting the raid and rebuilding. But without success. So I just bit the bullet, deleted created it exactly to how it was, and used mrecover2, and now I'm back up as if nothing had happened.



Here's the configuration of my machine in question:

Win 98 4.10.1998
Case: Full Tower w Leadman/400W PSU
Mobo: Abit KT7-Raid (ZH/1.03b(Equito)BIOS w/ACPI on/BIOS Savior)
HPT 370 RAID Controller 2 disk RAID 0
VIA 4in1 4.29 Final Highpoint 1.11 Driver
CPU: T-Bird 1000 not over clocked
Memory: 512 MB of Crucial cas 2 PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive(s): Maxtor Diamond Max U66 7200 RPM 15GB (IDE #1)
CDROM: LGCD-ROM CRD-8322B 32X (I think it's a Pioneer)(IDE#2)

(2) Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 7200rpm 60GB ATA100 Hard Drives for RAID 0 IDE 3 & 4 Master and (2) Maxttor Diamond max Plus 7200rpm 60GB ATA100 Single drives on IDE 3 & 4 Slave.

So what I need to know is what the pros suggest.
I can't recall what the stripe setup/ block size was. Is the info in my highpoint BIOS? I can't find it. I know I formated /Z:64 and I recall I used a generally popular block size. What else is there?

Much thanks to all who can help.



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Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    You can delete the raid and recreate it without deleting any data. Remember that the stripe set and the data are kept seperately. So, delete the array and recreate it in the RAID BIOS and it should be fine.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2003
    And if it still doesn't work, try booting from a Norton Utilities CD and running Disk Doctor (ndd.exe).

    When I was running raid it saved my bacon (not to mention my data) many times. Let it look for partitions. When it finds one it can rewrite your mbr and off you go.
    :wave:
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited November 2003
    Thanks Prime/profdlp and on a saturday night no less!

    Okay so you're saying I don't need a third party app (yet) But t's been so long. Please bear with me.

    I have two non RAID slaves, should I disconnect them or is there potential trouble there?

    I get the "Broken Stripe" message on my black boot screen but my RAID BIOS says no RAID just four disks. Now I know the RAID 0 was on both masters. I think my block was 16k does that sound right? then what?

    My o/s is on a different physical drive. The RAID is only .wav files so do I need to worry about MBR??
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    You may as well disconnect the slave drives if they're not on the RAID...

    THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: You MUST make sure that you rebuild the array with the EXACT same settings that you had before. I can't help you with this one, obviously, but if it was Master 1 and Master 2 16K, then that's what you need to create. If you're not sure, I don't know what to tell you other than "good luck" :eek3:
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited November 2003
    Okay thanks. I'm on it.
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