Interesting follow-up for those interested....I received the Promise card a few days ago and installed it, hooked up the drives and the same error was reported. (?!?!) So, in a final desperation, I hooked up the 2 drives to the on-board SATA RAID controller (I believe it's a Silicon Image...
LOL. You wouldn't believe how often I've been asked "Why a RAID 0?" in the past few days. To answer at least one person, I built it as a gaming machine for myself (no real need for backups), but when my parents' computer died, I gave it to them. They didn't know the importance of backups, and I...
Just tested the cables, just in case, and that's not the problem. Also tried the boot CD and it didn't work either: in GParted, it showed both of the drives, but they didn't have anything on them. it showed them as individuals and not as a RAID/single drive, and they were "unallocated."
So, I...
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...