Adding external SATA drive to RAID 1 System

[w7zr]

Win XP Pro running RAID1 with SATA drives. No problem. Have an external 1TB drive via USB no problem. Decided to change the external to SATA. When I powered up I had an indication there was a problem with the RAID configuration and it was taking forever to boot. I stopped the process and removed the external SATA connection. Getting back to normal now. My question is why can't I add an external SATA drive to my RAID 1 system?

 

[wahnula]

More details please...chipset, RAID controller, etc.

Tony

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[w7zr]

Intel D945PVS mb

 

[SimonDavies]

It could have been trying to expand your RAID across the new disk and that would take a long time (replacing a broken disk on an array can take in excess of 12 hours to resync that data).

However I would be surprised if this was the case, I would have expected you to have to recreate the array with the additional disk rather than just expanding it by adding another disk to it.

Simon

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[w7zr]

Must have been a one time occurrence as all seems fine now. The external SATA drive is being recognized and the RAID 1 SATA drives are functioning normally.