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The hard drive members of a RAID volume can be moved to another system and the contents of that RAID volume can then be accessed. This may be necessary in the event of a motherboard failure.
Requirements
The new system must support:
- Intel® Matrix Storage Technology (in other words, RAID)
- that type of RAID volume.
As an example, a RAID 5 volume should not be moved to a system with the Intel® 82801ER I/O controller hub (ICH5R) because that I/O controller does not support RAID 5.
How to Access the Volume Data
If the new system includes a different I/O controller than the one on which the RAID volume was created, you should not attempt to boot to the RAID volume. You should boot to an operating system on another non-RAID hard drive or RAID volume and, from there, access the contents of the original RAID volume.
As an example, if you move a bootable RAID 0 volume created on a system with ICH5R to a system with the Intel® 82801GR I/O controller hub (ICH7R), you should not boot to the RAID 0 volume. Instead, you should install an operating system on a non-RAID hard drive or a new RAID volume and access the contents of the original RAID 0 volume from within that operating system.
Related Topic
Identify your Intel® I/O controller hub
This applies to:
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