So I am trying to set up a raid 0 not for windows itself, but for data only. I connected all raid drives to the south bridge (SataII0/1/2/3, orange), while keeping the system ssd (and dvddrive) on the 2 GsataII_1 and 2 slots (purple).I set up my bios by setting sata mode to raid and I used the biossetup (fastbuild ATI) to set up the raid and according to the bios it works fine. Now when i boot windows however, even with the drivers provided by the website i am unable to find the raid. Not even the seagate drivedetect finds anything (at the moment i started with only two drives, one st3000dm001-9yn166 and one st3000dm001-1ch166). When i switch to sata AHCI in bios they show up normally. the "gigabyte raid configurer" for windows 7 gives me "GBB36x Raiddevice not found" and the device manager sees a raid controller, but without any driver and windows is unable to install it by itself.
i cannot find the utility cd of my mainboard and have no floppy, but from what i understand i only need them if i want to install windows on the raid, right? any idea what i may be missing to install the gigabyte drivers?
i tried to use
Chipset Driver (include sata raid driver) V3.2.1540.5
and
GIGABYTE SATA2 RAID Driver 1.17.50.2 3.90 MB 2009/09/29
The others require a floppy and i dont even know yet if i need them:
ATi SATA2 RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 3.2.1540.17
GIGABYTE SATA2 Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy. 1.17.50.2
thanks in advance!
-boonie
i cannot find the utility cd of my mainboard and have no floppy, but from what i understand i only need them if i want to install windows on the raid, right? any idea what i may be missing to install the gigabyte drivers?
i tried to use
Chipset Driver (include sata raid driver) V3.2.1540.5
and
GIGABYTE SATA2 RAID Driver 1.17.50.2 3.90 MB 2009/09/29
The others require a floppy and i dont even know yet if i need them:
ATi SATA2 RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 3.2.1540.17
GIGABYTE SATA2 Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy. 1.17.50.2
thanks in advance!
-boonie