moving RAID 0 array

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Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.2GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor
- OEM
1GB RAM (2 sticks 512 MB Kingston 3700)
MSI Neo Platinum K8N NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb chipset
2 Samsung Spin Point 2004C (200GB, 186 GB effective)
1 500 GB WD Caviar 16SE


Hi all, I tried moving a RAID 0 striped array to another motherboard.
The motherboard I currently have this RAID 0 on is the one listed
above using the nForce 3 chipset. The one I wanted to move the array
to is a Gigabyte K8 Triton with the nForce 4 chipset.

I found this wasn't possible since the new motherboard uses different
RAID drivers although the chipset manufacturer is Nvidia for both; So
I moved the RAID 0 array back to the MSI board it was originally
installed and working on as the OS drive.

However, instead of throwing out the spare parts of my older system I
bought another AMD socket 754 processor ( AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
2.2GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor - OEM) to use with the old
system. So the system is almost the same as before aside from the
processor and RAM and added WD drive as the OS disk. I plugged the
hard drives into the same SATA inputs as before and tried both
combinations (drive 1 to sata 3 and sata 4, drive 2 to sata and sata
4) of input arrangements in case it mattered.

The difference, I just realized, is that these drives used to be the
OS drives and startup drives and now I'm asking them to be the
secondary drives. I have already added the WD Caviar 16SE 500GB as
the main startup drive for this system. I just wanted to hook up the
RAID 0 array to back up some data before I move them as the OS drives
for my new system. So one thing I haven't tried yet is to use the
RAID 0 as the startup drives and unplug the WD drive. I will try that
now and see if they will boot without error. Typing this up made me
remember the differences.

Currently, this is the error I get at startup:

Warning: Have option ROM cannot be invoke (Vendor ID:10DEh, Device ID:
00Fh) Nvidia RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.81 Copyright (C) 2004 Nvidia
Corporation
 
Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.2GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor
- OEM
1GB RAM (2 sticks 512 MB Kingston 3700)
MSI Neo Platinum K8N NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb chipset
2 Samsung Spin Point 2004C (200GB, 186 GB effective)
1 500 GB WD Caviar 16SE

Hi all, I tried moving a RAID 0 striped array to another motherboard.
The motherboard I currently have this RAID 0 on is the one listed
above using the nForce 3 chipset. The one I wanted to move the array
to is a Gigabyte K8 Triton with the nForce 4 chipset.

I found this wasn't possible since the new motherboard uses different
RAID drivers although the chipset manufacturer is Nvidia for both; So
I moved the RAID 0 array back to the MSI board it was originally
installed and working on as the OS drive.

However, instead of throwing out the spare parts of my older system I
bought another AMD socket 754 processor ( AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
2.2GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor - OEM) to use with the old
system. So the system is almost the same as before aside from the
processor and RAM and added WD drive as the OS disk. I plugged the
hard drives into the same SATA inputs as before and tried both
combinations (drive 1 to sata 3 and sata 4, drive 2 to sata and sata
4) of input arrangements in case it mattered.

The difference, I just realized, is that these drives used to be the
OS drives and startup drives and now I'm asking them to be the
secondary drives. I have already added the WD Caviar 16SE 500GB as
the main startup drive for this system. I just wanted to hook up the
RAID 0 array to back up some data before I move them as the OS drives
for my new system. So one thing I haven't tried yet is to use the
RAID 0 as the startup drives and unplug the WD drive. I will try that
now and see if they will boot without error. Typing this up made me
remember the differences.

Currently, this is the error I get at startup:

Warning: Have option ROM cannot be invoke (Vendor ID:10DEh, Device ID:
00Fh) Nvidia RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.81 Copyright (C) 2004 Nvidia
Corporation

I just tried powering up with only the RAID 0 array connected and I
got the same error as before.
 
I just tried powering up with only the RAID 0 array connected and I
got the same error as before.

Ok, both drives are showing up as STATUS healthy and detected in
Nvidia RAID manager. This is what the Nvidia RAID display looks like:


Striping Error 372.62 GB

Disk 1 Samsung SP2004C Healthy 186.31GB SATA Primary Master

Disk 2 Samsung SP2004C Healthy 186.31GB SATA Secondary Master
 
Ok, both drives are showing up as STATUS healthy and detected in
Nvidia RAID manager. This is what the Nvidia RAID display looks like:

Striping Error 372.62 GB

Disk 1 Samsung SP2004C Healthy 186.31GB SATA Primary Master

Disk 2 Samsung SP2004C Healthy 186.31GB SATA Secondary Master

I think the problem may be that the RAID driver from 2004 may have
been updated, and the one I used was one of the newer versions. I
remember installing the driver on a floppy and hitting F6 for third
party software when I installed the OS a while back. I probably used
a driver that was in between between the newer driver offered at MSI's
website and the one that came on the disk in 2004/2005. This
incompatibility is ridiculous, for the same f****** board.

Oh well, screw it, I will just install them on the new system and
never move them. lol And never keep anything important on them
without back up. So aggravating.
 

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