[GRLUG] OT, .. Rebuildable RAID1

[Mike Williams]

Is the array at least still up? I had a fakeRAID controller years ago 
where the array was marked as unusable as soon as the primary drive 
failed, regardless of the status of the secondary. No, a proper mirror 
set doesn't have a primary drive, but this piece of junk did. I just 
pulled the fakeRAID card, plugged the primary drive into the motherboard 
and rebuilt the startup environment.

I've never used this particular card series, but have you confronted 
Intel's (or the card manufacturer's) support about their unusable utility?

On 05/18/2013 02:10 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Recently discovered after a drive failure that the nice looking "Rebuild
> Array" option in the Intel MSM series of FakeRAID (i.e. MV/OS driver, not
> full HW) DOES NOT WORK (at least in XP)!
>
> Has anyone actually used one of these FakeRAIDs to rebuild a Volume? Can't
> imagine another solution (for cost) other than a VM Host, but that is too
> complicated for some of these installations.
>
>          Lee
>
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