Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

[yoshi68]

Hello everyone,
I am on here to try and get some help with a new build I have done and I am having some issues with it.

It is as follows

Gigabyte EP45-DS5
Intel E8400
4GB DDR2 800
9500GT
1 x 500GB Seagate SATA drive (for OS and program installs)
1 x 1TB WD SATAdrive for data storage
5 x Asus 20B1LT drives

As you can see I have 7 drives (and looking at maybe more) So I cannot fit all the drives onto the one sata controller on the motherboard, which is also why I used this board. When I have the 500G and all 5 DVD drives plugged into the Intel Sata controller, everything works fine, when anything is plugged into the gigaRAID ports, nothing is detected, this includes 2 DVD drives, and DVD drives, and HDD's, 2 of the same HDD (other ones I used for testing). even when nothing is plugged into the Intel controller, i get nothing. I have looked through the BIOS, with no love there.

I also managed to try my set up on another EP45-DS5 board and i got the exact same results. I would really doubt that i tested on 2 dud boards.

Is there a trick to getting the GA RAID ports to detect anything??

Thanks
Josh

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

Umm well all you have to do is enable "onboard SATA controller" or similar. I dont know what the BIOS is exactly on your board, but it may show you 7 drives or 5 one the first screen???? Yours saying not detected which I assume is in the BIOS??? So It may need to be switched on. Perhaps there is a mode it needs to be in to?? Read your Operators manual quickly and see if it says anything useful.

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

Just a though. Why the hell do you need 5 dvd drives?

[mv2devnull]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

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Older (bit related) threads:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/ep45-ds5-dq6-27384/

[yoshi68]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

It will be used for video editing and obviously lots of burning.

I have had a look through the BIOS (and I am quite familiar with gigabyte BIOSs) and read the manual trying to work it out.

Yes by not detecting I mean in BIOS.

on the Standard CMOS Settings page all I get listed are

IDE Channel 1 Seagate 500
IDE Channel 2 ASUS DVD Drive
IDE Channel 3 ASUS DVD Drive
IDE Channel 4 ASUS DVD Drive
IDE Channel 5 ASUS DVD Drive
IDE Channel 6 ASUS DVD Drive
IDE Channel 7 None
IDE Channel 8 None
IDE Channel 9 None
IDE Channel 10 None

Thanks for replys.
I will have a read through mv2devnull's suggestion. and let yu know how I go

[yoshi68]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

Hello everyone, just letting you know that I sorted it this morning.

I had a read through the silicon image/jmicron page that was linked just before. interesting read but didn't help out.

In the end I just sat there in from of BIOS and changed each setting that looked like it might influence the GA RAID controller and saved changes, rebooted and saw how it went.

In the integrated peripherals section.
Sata port interface was set to auto, which should detect drives when they are plugged in, I had to change it to Enabled

Then i had to change Sil 5723-1 GSATA0,1 to GUI and not set up a RAID

Thanks to everyone who offered advice

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Issues with GigaRAID on EP45-DS5

Good work, Glad to see you got it figured.