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7.4

Setting up a RAID on ASUS p5b-vm ?

Asked by PeteMulford in Personal Computers

Tags: raid, asus, jmicron

Hi

I have just bought a ASUS p5b-vm and two Samsung SATA hard drives. I connected one HDD to SATA 1 port on mobo and the other to the SATA_RAID1 port as suggested on page 1-33 of manual.

I wanted to have the drives working as a RAID1 pair. Could not see anything in the manual on how this was meant to be done so I assumed the motherboard CDROM would have the instructions and installed Windows XP Pro. During the installation I remember being given the option of two hard drives to create partitions on, and I chose the drive I beleieved to be on SATA 1 port.

Windows XP installed fine as did the SP2 update pack and all ASUS drivers including the JMicron ones. However, Im totally stumped on how Im meant to get the RAID working.

Looking at the manual on the ASUS mobo CD, it says I should go to the ADVANCED setting in BIOS and set the JMicron Controller Mode to RAID, which I have done. It then says go to BOOT -> BOOT DEVICE PRIORITY -> the manual then says something about choosing the HDD list that I want the RAID that I want to install windows to. Does that mean I should not have installed windows? Also I notice the dvdram device now has RAID before it, which seems worrying to me. When I then go into BOOT-> HARD DISK DRIVES there are two hdd drives one with HDD:PM-samsung sp250 and the other with RAID:Samsung sp250. but what I am meant to do?

I have not got a floppy for the pc as I thought they were redundant. Fool! But I made a bootable cd for the JMicron driver disk, not sure if that was ok or not. I have been booting from the cd and choosing ctrl j, but only one disk shows and when I try and create the RAID array it says I dont have enough disks..

Can anyone suggest what I have done wrong and how to fix it?

Many thanks