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spodosaurus
Hi all,
My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its
way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and
found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So,
I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up
one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access
to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this
from).
I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of
finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be
one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have,
so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well
(seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option).
So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's
where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux
support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of
these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in
the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the
$200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably
trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help
me out.
TIA,
Ari
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spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/
My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its
way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and
found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So,
I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up
one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access
to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this
from).
I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of
finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be
one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have,
so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well
(seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option).
So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's
where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux
support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of
these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in
the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the
$200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably
trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help
me out.
TIA,
Ari
--
spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/