Hooking a RAID back up

[The_Silent_One_1]

I had a power outage 1-2 days ago and my server wouldn't boot in the morning. Ended up being the motherboard. I changed the motherboard, but didn't think to label my SATA Cables for my 4 drive RAID. I'm now very nervous about hooking it back up as I don't know the proper order of the drives. It's a giga-byte K8NXP-SLI Motherboard. I'm running the 4 Maxtor 300GB drives off of the N-Force SATA RAID Controller as RAID 0+1. Any suggestions or advice is welcome.

[rgharper]

In theory you can just hook 'em up and go into the RAID setup to see if the array is recognized. In reality you could possibly scramble the data on the disks if you selected any option that would write to the disks while in this condition. Personally I'd feel comfortable trying it IF AND ONLY IF it's the same motherboard and RAID controller and since I know what options not to pick while I'm in there. YMMV.

[confus-ed]

YMMV.

He-he do people still use that one? ... Obviously! So rhetorical question !

But hell yeah definately your mileage may vary (it may be different case by case) - some controllers don't care about order whatsoever, they use the system volume identifiers to figure what stripe or mirror needs to go where, but assuming we have, as noted (least that's what I'm reading it as), exactly the same controller present on this here new board - then I can't say if this is one that 'cares' or no .. as I ain't tried it - but gigabytes technical team are in my experience pretty sharp - so my suggestion is a mail to 'em to confirm whether you've dropped lucky & got an 'unfussy about order' controller or not .. (nvidia ought to be able to confirm this also)