I have a home built WHS with a RocketRaid 1740 controller. I bought new hardware so that I could get SATA II performance out of my hard drives. The drives were set up as JBOD drives on the RocketRaid. I removed the drives from WHS using the Console and let it copy the data to the remaining drives. Went into the Highpoint RocketRaid manager in Windows and deleted the "array" and selected Unplug. Removed the drive from the server. Put the drive on the new server/machine I built and it says "Device Verify Failed" when I boot it up with AHCI enabled. Doesn't see it at all if I changed the bios to IDE mode. Windows doesn't see the drive at all. Put the drive in an eSata enclosure, sometimes it get recognized as a hard drive, sometimes not, when it does, Drive Manager says it's unreadable. At no point in the new system or external enclosure does it seem to spin up. If I put the drive back on the RocketRaid 1740, it's recognized, spins up, appears in the RAID Manager and is available to add to WHS storage. I'm certain that it has to do with something on the RAID card, but I don't know what or why. I have 5 Hitachi 1TB drives, the 1 that I hadn't yet put in the old WHS works just fine in the new one.
My next step is to boot into the RocketRAID's bios at startup, haven't done it yet cause I don't have it hooked up to a monitor. I'm hoping that has some setting that the Windows version of the RAID manager doesn't.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
