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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Originally posted by wazza300 View Postare you disabling all unused ports? floppy drives and drive a from the bios? as this will slow down the dmi check
I have my OCZ Vertex 2 in ICH10R port 0.
I have port 1 empty as I will be getting another Vertex 2.
Port 3 is my DVD Burner and port 4 is my case's eSATA.
I then have the two Western Digital SATA6 Caviar Blacks on the Marvel 9128 Controller.
Everything else, including my onboard eSATA controller has been disabled and/or set to none. Again, I didn't have the problem on F5. But on F6, unless Hard Drive is set as First, DMI will delay...........................
I really don't care about that problem, because if I need to boot from my DVD, I just press F12. I'm just reporting it.
Originally posted by Lsdmeasap View PostYou can't use those drives in RAID, you have to buy the special RAID drives. As for the BIOS issue, you can set AHCI then in windows you can still create a RAID array with the MRU web tool. I have sent in an issue report about this a while ago, I'll remind them again tonight it needs looked at. You can still create RAID arrays though, you just have to do it in windows with the Marvell RAID Web tool.
However, as I mentioned you can't create RAID array's with those drives you mentioned as they are not RAID enabled and have TLER disabled.
I ran them just fine in RAID on F5 and am running them just fine in RAID on F6k. Any version higher than F6l will give me the IDE error.
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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Which exact drives do you have? Maybe you have older ones with TLER enabled, all the newer ones don't have it and it can't be changed, so they can make you buy the more expensive "RAID" versions.
I was basing my comment off comments from Dark Mantis here, please PM him and he'll give you some more of his thoughts/findings on this issue
MARVELL SATA3 problem
He is a member here so you can PM him here if you like.
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Also, more discussion here, read towards the later dates and you can see the issues mentioned with the SATA 6Gb/s drives
WD Black TLER confusion
I think sometimes it's possible even without TLER settings, but data loss is much more likely when ran that way.
Many people I've seen commenting the past year can't even enable RAID with them, so I dunno - maybe you have an older model before the changed things?
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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Originally posted by Lsdmeasap View PostWhich exact drives do you have? Maybe you have older ones with TLER enabled, all the newer ones don't have it and it can't be changed, so they can make you buy the more expensive "RAID" versions.
I was basing my comment off comments from Dark Mantis here, please PM him and he'll give you some more of his thoughts/findings on this issue
MARVELL SATA3 problem
He is a member here so you can PM him here if you like.
View Profile: Dark Mantis - TweakTown Forums
Also, more discussion here, read towards the later dates and you can see the issues mentioned with the SATA 6Gb/s drives
WD Black TLER confusion
I think sometimes it's possible even without TLER settings, but data loss is much more likely when ran that way.
Many people I've seen commenting the past year can't even enable RAID with them, so I dunno - maybe you have an older model before the changed things?
I bought two of those drives a week ago specifically to run in RAID0. And furthermore on F5 and F6k the performance is 250/250...actually faster than my SSD !
Like I said, when I try using F6, I can't open the Marvell RAID manager because it gives me an error saying they're in IDE mode...I know for a fact it's set to "RAID".
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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Thanks, those are the drives many say can't run RAID, or fail in RAID and loose data. So it's up to you if you want to risk that, but it's nice to see someone that has been able to created an array with them, I'll be sure to let Dark Mantis know it is possible.
As for the RAID/Marvell/BIOS issue, as I mentioned before Gigabyte is aware of the issue as I reported it a month or more ago, and just reported it again the other night to remind them.
You can still create a RAID array if you need to, just install the MRU (Marvell Web Tool), and create the array from windows. From there you can also manage your array's as well.
I'll let you know once I hear back about the bug, but for now if you need to create or manage any Marvell array you will need to do it from within windows.
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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Is the UD3P Bios F11c a final bios or a beta bios?Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 bios 3202
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Originally posted by rfvijn View PostNewegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
I bought two of those drives a week ago specifically to run in RAID0. And furthermore on F5 and F6k the performance is 250/250...actually faster than my SSD !
Like I said, when I try using F6, I can't open the Marvell RAID manager because it gives me an error saying they're in IDE mode...I know for a fact it's set to "RAID".
I'm new to this forum but am very active on the Gigabyte forum. I have been unable to set-up a RAID 0 array using WD SATA3 6GB/s Caviar Black HDD's on the Marvell 9128 Controller on my AMD GA-790XTA-UD4 Platform and wondered if you could give me a few details, screenshots etc., as to how you have managed this, as Western Digital say the Caviar Black Drives are not suitable for RAID and I could only set-up a RAID0 using SATA2 HDD's with any degree of reliability.
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Re: Gigabyte Latest BIOS
Originally posted by absic View PostHi there,
I'm new to this forum but am very active on the Gigabyte forum. I have been unable to set-up a RAID 0 array using WD SATA3 6GB/s Caviar Black HDD's on the Marvell 9128 Controller on my AMD GA-790XTA-UD4 Platform and wondered if you could give me a few details, screenshots etc., as to how you have managed this, as Western Digital say the Caviar Black Drives are not suitable for RAID and I could only set-up a RAID0 using SATA2 HDD's with any degree of reliability.
Thanks
But yeah, all I did was plug them in, boot them up, and setup a RAID array in the BIOS like it was any other drive.
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