Change RAID from one controller to the other?

Spire

What are the chances of my two Raptor drives still being a functioning bootable RAID 0 array if I switch from onboard SIL 3114 controller to a highpoint or Promise PCI card controller???

Or is this a silly question...

trekrider · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:26:47 Post Subject:

I'm thinking it won't work.........but what do I know??

T-shirt · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:31:35 Post Subject:

It should work........maybe Wink

if you have the card, try it, if not, consider a full backup and restore to freshly formated drives with the new array. that's the best way for best performance anyway.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:37:13 Post Subject:

I tried that this past weekend... It worked in my case! Went from a Promise fasttrask ATA100 card to a Silicon Image ATA133 card.

Spire · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:56:44 Post Subject:

Well that sounds promising. I still think I'll plan for the worst and save everything.

Anyone else have any luck like BB?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:46:25 Post Subject:

Yea good luck. I've never done it except when changing cards for like cards. I guess it depends if the card can read the records that the other card writes on the drives.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:51:24 Post Subject:

Yeah - I didn't keep it that way for long, but it did boot to Windows. Then I wiped it clean for RAID 1.