PING: Richard Hopkins et. al., Re: Enabling ICH5R SATA RAI..

[Kurt]

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I started a thread about 10 days ago, regarding changing the Intel SATA 1 & 2
controller to RAID mode AFTER installing W2K with the controller in normal mode.

Richard's suggestion of booting from SATA 3 with the SATA 1&2 ctrlr set to RAID
mode (no drives attached), then allowing W2K to install the drivers when it
detected the new hardware, then moving the boot drive back to SATA 1 was the
ticket. It went perfectly smoothly and the Intel ctrlr is now functioning as
expected in RAID mode (although I have not yet implemented a RAID array on it -
that project is a couple of weeks away).

Thanks, Richard, for the pointer to that procedure. ;o)

With the Intel controller set to RAID mode in the BIOS, and only a single drive
atttached, you do see the Intel RAID ROM notice in the 2nd POST screen but there
is no Ctrl-I prompt unless there are 2 drives attached to the controller. This
is understandable since there's no need to diddle with the RAID array if there's
no hardware present to support it.

Kurt

 

[TomG]

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bear in mind that the Intel Application Accelerator Raid version has a tool
to convert a non-raid configuration to raid configuration with data on the
drive(s). I have not tested it but I have read up on it so you may want to
check into that... Intel describes the functionality in their docs for the
IAA-R.

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"Kurt" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:emzgc.6857$eK3.6747@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> I started a thread about 10 days ago, regarding changing the Intel SATA 1
& 2
> controller to RAID mode AFTER installing W2K with the controller in normal
mode.
>
> Richard's suggestion of booting from SATA 3 with the SATA 1&2 ctrlr set to
RAID
> mode (no drives attached), then allowing W2K to install the drivers when
it
> detected the new hardware, then moving the boot drive back to SATA 1 was
the
> ticket. It went perfectly smoothly and the Intel ctrlr is now functioning
as
> expected in RAID mode (although I have not yet implemented a RAID array on
it -
> that project is a couple of weeks away).
>
> Thanks, Richard, for the pointer to that procedure. ;o)
>
> With the Intel controller set to RAID mode in the BIOS, and only a single
drive
> atttached, you do see the Intel RAID ROM notice in the 2nd POST screen but
there
> is no Ctrl-I prompt unless there are 2 drives attached to the controller.
This
> is understandable since there's no need to diddle with the RAID array if
there's
> no hardware present to support it.
>
> Kurt

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

"Kurt" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:emzgc.6857$eK3.6747@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> I started a thread about 10 days ago, regarding changing the Intel SATA 1
& 2
> controller to RAID mode AFTER installing W2K with the controller in normal
mode.
>
> Richard's suggestion of booting from SATA 3 with the SATA 1&2 ctrlr set to
RAID
> mode (no drives attached), then allowing W2K to install the drivers when
it
> detected the new hardware, then moving the boot drive back to SATA 1 was
the
> ticket. It went perfectly smoothly and the Intel ctrlr is now functioning
as
> expected in RAID mode (although I have not yet implemented a RAID array on
it -
> that project is a couple of weeks away).
>
> Thanks, Richard, for the pointer to that procedure. ;o)
>
> With the Intel controller set to RAID mode in the BIOS, and only a single
drive
> atttached, you do see the Intel RAID ROM notice in the 2nd POST screen but
there
> is no Ctrl-I prompt unless there are 2 drives attached to the controller.
This
> is understandable since there's no need to diddle with the RAID array if
there's
> no hardware present to support it.
>
> Kurt

Anyone know the benefit of setting it up in this configuration?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Hey Kurt, glad to hear that the procedure went according to plan!

As Tom says, the Intel controller's software suite apparently includes a
migration tool that allows you to convert one populated drive and one blank
one into a RAID array, although I haven't tried it!

Let us know what happens if/when you do though, as, if nothing else, we'll
be able to recommend it. Make sure you back the data up before you run the
wizard tho, I wouldn't like to have to cope with the consequences of the
original drive's contents being lost!
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