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This has been a really interesting topic. I also have a P4P800 which I |
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suspect is also on its way out and was wondering the exact same thing |
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the other day. And I have no chance of backing up all my data there is |
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just to much of it. |
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Thanks Jose. |
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Cheers |
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Rav |
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On 7/21/05, José Pedro Saraiva <nocive@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 7/20/05, Patrick Rutkowski <rutski89@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:37, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: |
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> > > Thanks for the reply Colin =) |
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> > > |
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> > > > If you remember your stripe size, then you should be able to plug |
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> > > > your drives into any ICH5R-based motherboard and get your data back. |
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> > > > Theoretically, you could plug your drives into any RAID whose BIOS |
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> > > > does not write to the disks when creating an array and then recreate |
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> > > > the array in the BIOS with the same stripe size. I don't know if |
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> > > > software RAID can rebuild your array, but that seems like your best |
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> > > > bet, lest you have a friend with a lot of SATA RAID controllers (s) |
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> > > > he's willing to lend out. |
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> > > |
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> > > I already ordered another ICH5R motherboard (similar to my P4P800 but |
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> > > a new model, since my old one is not available anymore) to try that |
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> > > out. I'm almost sure that my stripe size is 64KB (default). If so, |
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> > > plugging my hard drives into the new board and creating a new array |
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> > > with the same stripe size will give me access to my data? Or is there |
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> > > the risk of loosing it all? Do you know if the ICH5R writes to the |
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> > > disks when creating the array? |
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> > > |
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> > > > If all else fails and your data is priceless, grab a couple grand and |
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> > > > look into professional data recovery, because unless you can find a |
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> > > > super-geek, that will probably be your best bet. |
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> > > |
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> > > Unfortunately I cannot afford such a service, even though my data is |
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> > > crucial to me, they're just too expensive for my pocket. :-( |
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> > > |
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> > > José Pedro |
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> > My one BIG FAT WARNING to you would be to think for 30 seconds or more before |
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> > pushing any buttons when redoing your disks. |
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> > |
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> > Its very easy to accidentally format things when you don't know exactly what |
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> > your doing... at least for me it is; I've done it :-p |
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> > |
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> > Wishing the best of luck, |
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> > Patrick Rutkowski |
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> > |
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> It turns out everything is easier than we thought! |
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> I contacted Intel for some support and here's what they told me: |
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> Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support. |
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> You should be able to just connect both drives to a motherboard with |
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> either the Intel(R) 82801ER I/O controller hub (ICH5R), the Intel(R) |
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> 82801FR I/O controller hub (ICH6R) or the Intel(R) 82801GR I/O |
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> controller hub (ICH7R) and everything should work fine. |
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> Now, you just need to connect the drives. Do not create the RAID 0 |
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> volume again because this will cause the drives to be overwritten. |
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> Before plugging in the drives, make sure that the onboard RAID |
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> controller is enabled in the BIOS, or that Serial ATA features are set |
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> to RAID. Either one of the above RAID controllers, once enabled at |
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> BIOS level, should be able to detect the RAID structure on the drives. |
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> Neat, huh? :D |
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> Now I can blame Intel if anything goes wrong! :> |
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> Regards, |
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> José Pedro |
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