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Raid 1 + Xp Home + IDE Hdd +Intel Pearl Mb..whats the deal?

Howdy, yall.

I have a client who wants to have mirroring, after his hdd turned to goo.

SO the specs are as follows;

Intel Pearl Mb
2 WesternDigital IDE Hdd !20 Gig each
WinXp Home (yuck!)

I did a bios flash, updated the SATA/RAID drivers, and the utility does not see the drives as either nonraid or raid.( after pressing ctrl+I) Whats the deal?

I have yet to master the raid configurations, (*read im a dumb ass) so any help would be fanjamertastic.

Thanks!

Lee W, MVP

It could be the Motherboard only supports SATA RAID and not standard IDE RAID, in which case you'd have to get an add-in card.

reliapoint

I agree wtih leew - Most motherboards with onboard RAID are for SATA drives only. Which model Intel Perl is it? I think there are a couple flavors.

Thomas_Roes

Hello there,

I checked the manual found at

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/D875PBZ/sb/CS-008370.htm

Conclusion: The Intel D865PERL only supports RAID with Serial ATA drives.

There appear to be SATA converters (connect your old-style IDE drive to a SATA connector). Intel does not reccomend this:

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-009017.htm

So, my advise, try to dump these 2 drives and buy two real SATA drives.

Good luck,

Thomas

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Amen, I did my homework over the weekend and came to the same conclusion, but I'm looking into the add-in card, what flavor would best suit the purpose? The mainboard, if anyone is interested is the D865PEARL.

Thanks in advance dudes!

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You are godlike. Thank you Kimosabi.

Booyakasha, the boss like the idea, so were gonna dive in. Thanks a bunch.