RAID failure?

[pc2099]

OK scrap that! despite the changes and numeruous tests to other hard drives as outlined, the first test trying to copy data from the raid to the external firewire drive resulted in not 1 but 2 drives dropping out.

Luckily the 2 were both 1 half of the mirror meaning i could rebuild the raid. So looks like trying to use the firewire from the raid is the problem. THis may stand to reason as the firewire card is via an add-on card in a PCI slot so maybe there is some weird bottleneck in the bus when doing this causing the nvraid to malfunction.

Now however I am very worried as I have no faith in the nvidia raid drivers and I cant even back up my redundant array. I might try updating the nvraid and I might try writing data to the external drives via USB, much slower but perhapse less risky?

Can anyone suggest another solution?

Pablo

[walsterdoomit]

ive just purchased an amd 5000+, asus m2n32-sli mobo,windows media center (fancy pro) with 2 hard drives (unknown maker) i havnt had the heart or courage to pull them to see the maker....i was rerunning the wiring to tidy up and a wire came loose. i put it back....but now i have this problem also....degraded data ....thought id toss that out there for you....im trying to get up to speed on this raid thing to fix it....thanks for the help...ps havnt tried to talk to ibuypower the maker yet or nvidia....doesnt look good....

[MotoCrazy]

This thread looks a bit old, but I found it on a Google search for the same problem. I signed up just to post the solution I found/performed.

Here was my situation. Upgraded from XP32 to Vista64. While copying email backups and such, I was also installing mainboard, video, sound, etc drivers. The system hung and had to be hard-rebooted. On reboot, RAID BIOS showed degraded MIRROR that was my 750GB D:\ drive.

After searching the internet for a few hours (and reading this), here is what I did:

BACKED UP MY DATA!
Rebooted and went into RAID BIOS
Deleted one of the two 750GB drives from the mirror array
Rebooted into Vista

NVIDIA software automatically recongnized the change and started sync'ing the two drives again. I had a backup, but I did not lose one bit of data and did not need it (but use at your own risk).

I hope this may help some people out there as it seems to be a fairly common problem.