Hi experts,
I was under the assumption, that "hardware" RAID 1 was possible with 2 of 3 drives using the onboard RAID controller on the P5Q cards.
But I am having great difficulties setting up RAID 1 on my new computer.
My system (relevant parts):
- 1x 150 GB VelociRaptor drive (SATA)
- 2x 1 TB Caviar Black Drives (SATA)
- 1x Asus P5Q-E Motherboard
- Win XP Pro with SP3 installed (on the 150 GB drive)
My Plan is to have the 150 GB drive as boot/system/C: drive, and the TB drives in RAID 1 as storage drives.
I have tried to change the setting in the BIOS for SATA drives to RAID instead of IDE. When I do that, I can access the BIOS RAID setup during bootup (using Ctrl+I), and set up the TB drives to RAID 1. However, when the setting in the BIOS is set to RAID the OS won't boot.
If I change it back to IDE, the system will boot just fine.
I have also tried to set the drives to RAID inside XP, but the "mirror" option is grayed out, and not available.
Am I missing some settings/drivers or something to be able to make "hardware" RAID 1 drives?
Are there any possible third party software that I can use for setting up my drives as RAID 1 inside windows?
In short, what can I do to set up my TB drives to RAID 1??
I was under the assumption, that "hardware" RAID 1 was possible with 2 of 3 drives using the onboard RAID controller on the P5Q cards.
But I am having great difficulties setting up RAID 1 on my new computer.
My system (relevant parts):
- 1x 150 GB VelociRaptor drive (SATA)
- 2x 1 TB Caviar Black Drives (SATA)
- 1x Asus P5Q-E Motherboard
- Win XP Pro with SP3 installed (on the 150 GB drive)
My Plan is to have the 150 GB drive as boot/system/C: drive, and the TB drives in RAID 1 as storage drives.
I have tried to change the setting in the BIOS for SATA drives to RAID instead of IDE. When I do that, I can access the BIOS RAID setup during bootup (using Ctrl+I), and set up the TB drives to RAID 1. However, when the setting in the BIOS is set to RAID the OS won't boot.
If I change it back to IDE, the system will boot just fine.
I have also tried to set the drives to RAID inside XP, but the "mirror" option is grayed out, and not available.
Am I missing some settings/drivers or something to be able to make "hardware" RAID 1 drives?
Are there any possible third party software that I can use for setting up my drives as RAID 1 inside windows?
In short, what can I do to set up my TB drives to RAID 1??