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Manually-Confirgured Software RAID Under NT?

Posted by Cliff on from the funny-how-it-used-to-mean-"bug-spray" dept.

Mandoric asks: "I recently had a RAID-0 array die due to the controller refusing to recognize it as anything but a pair of single drives. Are there any software RAID programs (preferably under NT, as it's an NTFS partition I'd be restoring) that allow manual entry of a preexisting array's stripe size, rather than forcing all stripe data to be rewritten before reading from an array? Or ways to modify the volume data of an existing program to do this?" Are there decent RAID tools, for either NT or for Unix, that will allow one to recover from errors such as this?

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  1. What hardware? by bedessen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You didn't mention anything about your hardware, but I had the exact same thing happen to me with the Highpoint 370 controller on a KT7-RAID motherboard. I rebooted one day to find that the HPT BIOS would say only "broken stripe." I figured my NTFS partition was toast. But there is a utility, raidrb, which I think is written by either Via or Highpoint. Anyway you just boot from a floppy and run it and it "reassures" the controller that the stripe is really ok.

    http://download.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/downloa ds/utils/raidrb.zip

    There is some discussion of other methods to try if this one does not work in the Raid section on Paul's KT7 page. (Google search for "kt7 faq" for the url.)