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Asus, Mainboard, P5B Plus, Raid 0
I'm installing a Raid 0 configuration and use the Intel rom to configure the 2 hard drives (2x Wd 250 GB Sata) in a Raid 0 array. When rebooted, the system checks the array and displays a boot prompt showing the drives to be OK. After the ICH8 drivers are loaded using F6 and Windows detects the one big drive and formats it, then copies the files, then reboots to finish the install, the boot prompt shows "error occurred" in red under type/status for the drive in position 0. We have switched the drives and the problem does NOT follow the drives or cables. We have tried different ports - no luck. When the windows load is complete the Matrix software shows an error on one of the disks : "Raid Volume Errors" Some data requests to a hard Drive in raid 0 volume failed...etc. Tried the latest version of the Intel F6 floppy drivers - same thing.
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Thanks Spec01, that was our next step. Can you tell me if we need to load the Raid drivers using the F6 command/floppy disk when loading Windows? I'm assuming that we don't have to setup the raid array from the Intel boot rom.
If you are doing an OS RAID 0 setup windows control everything. There is no need for drivers or files to be loaded prior to windows.
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No joy here...used the Intel Matrix software Raid config. utility, setup the Raid 0 array, rebooted...all OK, until I used Disk Management to format the remainder of the Volume as a 2nd partition - tried both a second primary partition and a Extended/logical partition, and a few percentage into the format, I got a notification from the Intel Matrix Storage controller saying that there were errors "A drive in Raid 0 is failing..." I'm starting to suspect hardware - but it seems strange that the problem is always reported to be drive 0 even when we switched the cables...
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With Intel Matrix Storage, you should be able to insert a new disk into your system, and within the Intel Matrix Storage UI, right-click on the new drive and select "Rebuild to this drive."
Separately, there is an option in the Intel Matrix UI to save a system report to a .txt file. Can you please save the report, and post it here? This will be helpful in understanding your specific scenario.
With Intel Matrix Storage, you should be able to insert a new disk into your system, and within the Intel Matrix Storage UI, right-click on the new drive and select "Rebuild to this drive."
Separately, there is an option in the Intel Matrix UI to save a system report to a .txt file. Can you please save the report, and post it here? This will be helpful in understanding your specific scenario.
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At this point we have told the Matrix software to ignore the problem on the drive, have done the full loads, etc and it hasn't recurred
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Just to followup - We replaced the mainboard with an Asus board that uses the Nvidia chipset for Raid, and reconfigured the whole system (for about the 4th time) and all went as it should. Lesson learned? From now on, all systems using Raid will use a board with Nvidia Raid! Thanks anyway....
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*just a note, if you are skeptical about using RAID software because of performace drops just give it a shot. I have used both Hardware and Software RAID setups and have seen no difference. RAID software is much easier to configure and bootup times are faster then Hardware RAID setups.
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