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RAID/IBM DFT question
Well I had a nice little suprise waiting for me at 5:45AM this morning. I woke up hearing a nice ticking sound coming from my computer. I figured that it was the one the fans and that wire or something had gotten into its way and just needed to get moved. I went to move the mouse since my monitor was in powersave mode and then nothing happened...I rebooted and the highpoint controller didnt pickup my two 60gb IBM GXP drives that I have 
...After some panic and doing a cold shut down I finally was able to get the drives to come back up and boot into Windows2K. I ran Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk and everything seems fine, but I do get a noise coming from the drives when speed disk starts up....
So this is the question. I know that the DFT doesnt usally pickup hard drives on a RAID controller, so do I have to worry if I take the cable that the drives are on and boot it off one of the VIA controlled IDE ports and have DFT take a look at the drives to see if theres anything wrong with them? I rather not wipe out my data if I dont have too.
Scott
...After some panic and doing a cold shut down I finally was able to get the drives to come back up and boot into Windows2K. I ran Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk and everything seems fine, but I do get a noise coming from the drives when speed disk starts up....So this is the question. I know that the DFT doesnt usally pickup hard drives on a RAID controller, so do I have to worry if I take the cable that the drives are on and boot it off one of the VIA controlled IDE ports and have DFT take a look at the drives to see if theres anything wrong with them? I rather not wipe out my data if I dont have too.
Scott
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