On 2010-03-14 Robert Dyck wrote:
I have a client having trouble with her RAID controller. She reports
You didn't mention what RAID controller. I assume some sort of onboard, like Intel MATRIX?
that she keeps getting an error on boot that her raid set is out of synchronization.
This can happen if her comp resets/crashes or shuts off abnormally. The real issue may be diagnosing that, not the after-effect of the raid rebuild.
It takes close to an hour just to boot when this happens.
Hmm, in XP with Matrix RAID (I don't use any other ob ones) I see reasonable boot times (maybe 40% slowdown max) even when in rebuild mode. Only in Vista do I see horrendous boot times during rebuild.
she may have to replace her motherboard, but I don't want to tell her she has to do this unless I can confirm it is necessary. If she replaced the motherboard and the problem continues, I would hear
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