I've just tried to setup my first RAID 0 and it didn't want to happen...
My setup is a P5K Deluxe Wifi/AP, Q6600, 4GB Ram and two brand new Raptor X drives
The manual for the mobo is a little cryptic but sems to suggest that I can have either the ICH9R SATA RAID controller or the JMicron controller, is this right? These are two seperate controllers and shouldn't used together right?
I tried the ICH9R controller setup first and went into the BIOS, set the SATA configuration to SATA from IDE. I then saved the BIOS config change and rebooted, went into the Intel Matrix storage controller and created the RAID0 set. Both drives showed up as members and it seemed fine.
I then booted to the Vista setup screen with the ICH9R driver ready on a floppy. The vista setup could see the drive and the size was correct for two drives striped together. I then proceeded through the setup screens and chose the Vista version (home premium 64 bit). It all seemed normal until it moved to the 'Copying Setup Files' screen, where it just sat on 0% for ages. The dots were appearing continually, but no files were copied.
I restarted the Vista setup, went through the screens again but this time chose the install driver option on one of the setup screens. I stuck in the floppy with the RAID drivers on it and it highlighted the ICH9R driver but then when I tried to install it, I got the message that: 'Intel ICH9R SATA RAID controller could not be installed, get an updated version. This is the latest version of the driver from the ASUS site.
At this point, I pretty much decided to try the JMicron setup instead...I went back to the Intel Matrix RAID setup, set both drives back to NON-RAID, went back into the BIOS and set the JMicron option to SATA from IDE, saved the changes, and rebooted...
According to the manual, on the JMicron screen I should see my drives and be able to CTRL-J into the RAID setup, just like I was able to CTRL-I into the ICH9R setup, but, on the JMicron screen, all I see is my DVD drive and there is no CTRL-J option.
I carried on into the Vista setup, went through the options again, chose use disk again and inserted the JMicron driver floppy (this is also the latest version from the ASUS site). The setup did not list any files in the choose driver window, it was as if the disk was empty (probably as the JMixron RAID was not setup).
I don't get it. I'm using 64 bit drivers and trying to install the 64But version of Vista. The mobo setup was fine running Windows XP 32Bit on a non-raid and I made the BIOS changes as stated in the manual. The versin of Vista has been installed on another non-raid computer briefly so that should be fine.
I guess I need to use the JMicron controller, but the screen for this just doesn't list the drives, even though the drives can be seen in the BIOS. My DVD drive is an IDE drive so why that is listed I'm not sure
Can anyone advise? Should I flash the BIOS maybe? I really want to get this RAID up and running