Raid 0 GA-EP45-UD3P

[Casper]

I set my raid in BIOS before installing the OS as a RAID 0 striped 128k both hard drives were detected in the BIOS Seagate 500 GB generation 12. Anyway I installed the raid controller driver during the OS install and after I was up and running updated the controller to the full driver. So I was looking at my drive C today and all it says is Volume 1 with the correct capacity. I looked under the properties thinking I would see the info on the Seagate drives but it just gives generic info with a Microsoft driver from 2006. Is this correct or should there be more info am I getting the full use of the features of a SATA RAID?

[SeanDude05]

Re: Raid 0 GA-EP45-UD3P

This is more than likely correct. What the properties tab is reading is the RAID BIOS for your combined array and not each individual drive anymore.

[Casper]

Re: Raid 0 GA-EP45-UD3P

OK the other thing I noticed in my old system in the control panel there was a RAID Controller Icon. Granted this was an AMD setup so Intel and this motherboard plus Vista maybe different. Thanks for your help in advance

[Casper]

Re: Raid 0 GA-EP45-UD3P

Ok i did find the controller software it's just not where I thought it would be. Dang Vista anyway I went to Intel's website there is and update for the matrix controller 10/23/2008. But reading the fix list I;m not sure I want to update it's like those adds you see for medication fixes one thing but the side effects could include! Anyway, I downloaded it if I have problems I will update. As for seeing the specific hard drives in the Matrix software both are listed and working properly. Maybe this will help someone else with a similar question.

[SeanDude05]

Re: Raid 0 GA-EP45-UD3P

I like your viewpoint - if it aint broke, dont fix it right? Right- I should have asked you if you were using the onboard RAID because you CAN view individual drives in the manager.