KT7 RAID boot up

[LTJLover]

I have been helping my friend setup his new KT7 RAID system this past week. His RAID bootup seems to take forever (more like 45 seconds or so). He is using older drives, but once booted, they appear to work fine. He tried the latest bios with no luck. Can someone with this board let me know how long their RAID boot takes? Any suggestions?

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

 

[Atman]

I setup one last week, didn't take any longer than usual. Any network cards installed?

Sorry...cannot remember how long...but wasn't any longer than my normal rig.

 

[Guest]

I'm setting up an KT7-RAID system now. I had the same problem for a while and couldn't figure out what it was. I'll bet you have one or more drives on the HPT370 RAID controller, and the delay is occuring when the controller is detecting the connected drives. Takes forever, right? I had a drive alone on each channel (to set up RAID 0), with the jumper set to master on each (seemed logical).

Well, as it turns out, that setting was only to be used if the drive was a master WITH a slave present. So, I think what happened was that the controller sees the one "master" and thinks there must be a slave and spends a while searching for it before giving up. I unjumpered the drives (check the manual/documentation, and set the jumper for either "master with no slave" or "cable select") and the problem vanished. Now it only takes 2-3 seconds for the RAID controller to detect the drives.

Hope this helps!