Re: Raid 1 'mirroring degraded;

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I had no problem progressing through the NVidia Raid bios settings.

In the Array List it showed the disks as ID 1 and ID 2 with ID 1 set
at Boot - YES; status for both was degraded.

Highlighted disk entry for ID 1 and hit Enter to access
Array Detail screen hit 'R' to rebuild which automatically returned me
to the Array List screen where I chose CTRL-X to exit, whereupon my
system continued booting into Windows.

Once in Windows there was no disk building activity, it would appear
that the rebuild function in the NVidia Raid bios setup does not work.

I recall trying this sometime in the past with the same result, before
my nephew sorted it, possibly he deleted the existing array and
recreated a new one whilst retaining the disk data.

Thanks once again for the suggestions will keep on checking websites
to see if I can glean any further info, although the obvious answer is
to try to get hold of my nephew! :-)

Aitcho






On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:40:17 +0100, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

Using NVidea Raid bios, F10 on boot, you should get an Array list;
Array List
This should show you the array and its status (presumably degraded)
<Enter> for detail
Array Detail Screen
<R> to rebuild
Ctrl + X to Exit or Enter to go back

Above data from GA-K8N Ultra9 manual
.

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