kevinliner
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I built a computer back around 2003 that uses 2 WD Raptor's on RAID 0 (stripe), and, from what I can gather, the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card has failed.
The computer had been running fine, and I got a call from my parents saying it wouldn't boot. The FastTrak setup (just after POST) says that the array isn't working because one of the drives has failed. (So, I cannot rebuild the array, etc.) But, both drives power on fine and sound fine; and when I plug in the drives individually, the setup detects them fine, with no errors. This is why I'm guesstimating that it's the card and not the drives.
So, assuming that the card is the problem, would it be possible to buy an identical FastTrak card and get it up and running again without data loss? Or would the RAID re-setup require starting from scratch? My parents have some information that they don't want to lose, but aren't willing to drop $3k to a RAID recovery shop.
Thanks,
Kevin
The computer had been running fine, and I got a call from my parents saying it wouldn't boot. The FastTrak setup (just after POST) says that the array isn't working because one of the drives has failed. (So, I cannot rebuild the array, etc.) But, both drives power on fine and sound fine; and when I plug in the drives individually, the setup detects them fine, with no errors. This is why I'm guesstimating that it's the card and not the drives.
So, assuming that the card is the problem, would it be possible to buy an identical FastTrak card and get it up and running again without data loss? Or would the RAID re-setup require starting from scratch? My parents have some information that they don't want to lose, but aren't willing to drop $3k to a RAID recovery shop.
Thanks,
Kevin