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| peteec... |
 Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:02 am |
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Hey all,
I'm currently using 2x250gb sata's (striped as my boot / E
drive),2X500gb sata's (striped as F drive,extra storage)and i had a
spare couple of 250 sata so thought i'd pop em in as a mirror.
Anyway,Heres my problem,
i added the drives,but when i went to set them up as an array,one of
the drives (the maxtor) was missing,i checked all my cabling,and tried
the drive in another slot (hot swap caddie),but it still failed to
detect on the raid controller bios,shown in pic 1,i then noticed that
the drive was then showing in the summary page of raid bios,pic 2,(the
second screen on boot,hope that makes sense),i then rebooted (after
checking cables etc again),same again drive not showing (and not
selectable to build and array),but its on the summary page,so i let it
boot into windows.....(hence my headache begins).
When i get in windows (xp pro),i find the drive is there...
formatted,and working,i coped some stuff on it then off again.. and
alls good....
however... its still not selectable in the raid bios,if use the windows
storage matrix software,i can create an array (using the other 250 i
got)but when i reboot the raid bios doesn't see the drive again until
its back into windows... the of course it starts rebuilding as it was
missing on boot!
Pic 3 shows what windows reports(hope its readable)
I've tried marking the drive as "a non raid drive",and also marking it
as spare,with the windows intel matrix software,but it still cant be
seen in the raid bios screen.
I've also tried a low level format of the drive,in a hope to clean any
mbr records,as it was once used as an osx drive too,but still the
same..
I also wondered if the drive was stuck in ide mode,or something like
that (i could be talking shi*e now!),so changed settings in bios,from
raid to ide mode then back again etc,still nothing!
Anyone got any ideas!?
(as short of throwing the maxtor in the bin i'm fast running out!!)
Machine is:
Intel DQ35JO
G6600
4Gb (4x1Gb)drr2 patriot
3870
Hdd as above
Windows XP Pro/SP3
Thanks in advance for any ideas
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| Maxim S. Shatskih... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:13 pm |
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Quote: detect on the raid controller bios,shown in pic 1,i then noticed that
the drive was then showing in the summary page of raid bios
Most RAID BIOSes (I'm not speaking about > $1000 serious controllers from Adaptec etc, but on the on-mobo chips) are bad and buggy, and it is really the "deed of the brave" to trust all of your data to it.
Use Dynamic Disk in Windows instead. It has only 3 limitations:
- boot volume can only be Simple or Mirror, not the other config
- with RAID5, the CPU is involved in calculating parity
- no support on XP Home
In all other situations, DynDisk is much better then on-mobo RAID chip with a buggy driver and BIOS.
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| peteec... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:54 pm |
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Thanks for your reply...
i can see where your coming from,however i believe it's something with
the drive as this drive was used in a mirror sometime ago and was
fine,i've also tried the drive on 3 other computers,1 is the same board
and the other 2 are different makes,ones a gigabyte p965-dq6,ones
another dq35jo,and ones an asus p5b deluxe,and its the same with every
board and same on ever port!!
Any other ideas?
Could it be a filmware problem with the drive?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:18 am |
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:54:18 +0100, peteec
<peteec.4e86987 at (no spam) computerbanter.com> wrote:
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Thanks for your reply...
i can see where your coming from,however i believe it's something with
the drive as this drive was used in a mirror sometime ago and was
fine,i've also tried the drive on 3 other computers,1 is the same board
and the other 2 are different makes,ones a gigabyte p965-dq6,ones
another dq35jo,and ones an asus p5b deluxe,and its the same with every
board and same on ever port!!
How did you get an 'asus p5b' to talk to a sata drive? Or does the
'deluxe' add the necessary connectors?
Besides, I have both a P5A & a P5B and they are both Socket7 boards,
and neither handle drives > 128gig properly, or else I would upgrade
the drives in my server.
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