Is NFORCE 4/Silicon Image Raid5 Compatable between motherboards?

[youngpro]

Hi All,

 

I've got a Asus a8n sli premium and I want to move my raid5 to a dfi sli-dr expert board, its currently a raid on the silicon image raid controller using 4 sata drives...

 

If I simply plug the drives into the asus board silicon raid ports and enable the raid, will it be detected in this machine?

 

Thanks for help everyone...

 

pro

[SeanDude05]

Are they the same Silicon Image Controller version? Same drivers? Its possible, but be prepared to need to setup the array again.

 

I'd backup any important info just in case.

[youngpro]

The asus uses Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller

and the DFI uses 3114,

 

I presume this is the same silicon image chip?

 

Problem is the asus board the raid is currently on is gone (one of my collegues sent it out before i was ready) so I've got these 4 raid drives, and no board to plug them into, I presume being a software raid all the information needed for the raid is contained on the parity calculations on the drives themselves and im HOPING plugging it into a board with the same raid controller ( the silicon image 3114) and the same chipset will yield good results, unfortunatly since the boards gone, i wont have any chance to backup data that is very valuable to me,

 

if anyone has any input, suggestions or experience that would be great.

[krylon]

I've transferred a raid 0 on the NVIDIA chip from an SLI-DR to an Ultra-D to an Expert and finally to an A8N-SLI Premium without any issue at all.

[darkangelism]

It might work, but its better to wipe it and redo because the parity info will change.