are you 100% sure you are using the correct driver? |
that board has both Intel raid and SilicionImage raid chips, the Silicon Image is 4 connectors , the Intel only 2. most likely you are using the incorrect driver; try the silicon image one from this page http://www.abit-usa.com/downloads/dr...es=1&model=130 try the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Driver or the SiliconImage one(s) |
try the Intel RAID driver then, the disk you downloaded doesn't hold the drivers I think, it's only for config |
from my link, download the " Intel Application Accelerator RAID Driver" , unzip the contents of the .zip to the root of a floppy and use it during the XP setup:) |
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You will be prompted to Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A: When prompted, insert the floppy disk containing the following files: IAAHCI.INF, IAAHCI.CAT, IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.CAT, IASTOR.SYS, and TXTSETUP.OEM and press the Enter key. |
jackpot! http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=13173 Quote:
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you don't need to follow those instructions by the letter; you only need to download these files : ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-suppo...aar353_enu.exe The first thing to do is obtain the driver files that we need. AFAIK Silicon Image doesn't provide generic drivers on their website; you have to go to the mfg of your particular board. I got mine from Abit here. There are a couple places to get the ICH5R drivers. You can get them out of the Intel Application Accel. package, the Intel "F6" diskette creation utility, or your OEM. Since we're trying to avoid using a floppy strike the diskette utility and let us use the IAA Package. after you extracted the IAA package, place these files on a floppy: iastor.sys iaStor.cat iastor.inf txtsetup.oem done. |
Try nLite, it allows to integrate drivers in the setup (and change lots of other things). Normaly it should work, but a while ago (v0.7x ? ) it caused loads of read/write errors during setup. |
:super: great news :) remember that RAID 1 only protects against HDD failure , not data corruption or software error. if your purpose is to just create a fail safe for your "my documents" folder, a simply copy/paste/replace script from C: to D: will work out more effectively |
4-way RAID 0 "should" be faster, but best to do a quick compare maybe with the E; set them up for RAID 0 with 2 disks vs 3 disks vs 4 disks vs 1 disk (no raid) also, use different apps to test (sisoft sandra also for example). also if you do a quick format, remember that the OS will format the drive sector first time there is data written to it... so performance is not very correct with the extra formatting overhead. for the read speed this can matter also. with HDTach you can do write tests (in the reg version) to unformatted volumes, try that. READ speed with RAID-0 is not very very fast compared to single drive AFAIk, it's the write speed which is much better. |
read speed for the first RAID-0 2 disk array is great, that the Intel raid one right? the second array on the SiliconImage is faster than a single SP2504C which only scores about ~57Mb/s in single drive mode; so you do gain a bit here at ~76Mb/s |
that's quite an increase indeed, check also that average read speed, impressive! |
what mobo is that koensa? ;) |
how is your CPU cooled? |
If you mirror, no data will be split. Mirroring can only be done using 2 drives. Striping splits the data and puts it on 2 drives. The only (common) RAID arrays that support 3 drivers is RAID5 and JBOD. |
I would never recommend RAID 0 unless you are 100% sure that loosing any of the data on that array is "okay" and "acceptable". |
Only few, expensive RAID controllers have "array expansion". This is mostly in a RAID 5 array.... |
didn't you backup on another disk???? |
I try to keep 3 different backup copies of important data, at least:) |
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