ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

[Chike]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

The drivers installed or has the yellow mark on them?

[avguy]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

All of the drivers installed and the drives are plugged into the yellow sata connectors.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

Please show us what Matix Storage Manager says, if you have not installed this it may be why. Be sure you are using the latest Matrix and Chipset drivers (Second Link for both pages) >>

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+Matrix+Storage+Manager

This is odd for sure, but I really have not had a OS on the Gigabyte ports and then a large array on the Intel ones, but I do not see why it would be a problem unless you do not have the matrix software installed. Sorry if I forgot to tell you this earlier but I do believe it could be the issue if you don't have it installed

[avguy]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

I do have the matrix storage manager installed it shows all the drives and then I initialize them, this is what took 58 hrs. When it was done the manager showed a array with all the disk but when i go into the disk management it is not there. I have downloaded and confirmed I have the latest chipset drivers and the correct matrix manager. I am at a loss.

[Psycho101]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

First of all XP home would not be supported in a RAID configuration only XP Pro.

I've had XP Home running on a RAID0 array (two WD2000JS 200GB drives) without issue. All that was needed ofc was the correct RAID driver (NVidia RAID on an NForce 4) and away I went, after setting stripe size first. I believe you can't create a software RAID config via disk manager in Home, but there is no limitation for a hardware RAID, as after all, most of the work is transparent to XP, it just needs to communicate with the RAID conteoller, and the controller decides what data to write where etc.

This is a puzzling problem indeed. I know that when you install the Matrix Manager, the usual channel entries where you can see what drive is plugged into where, in Device Manager is replaced by a single entry, in my case "Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller". However all drives show up correctly in both My Computer and Disk Management.

I'm sure I read about a similar problem when researching AHCI/Intel Matrix Manager for optimizing my new SSD. I'll have a look through my browsing history and figure out where I read it and if it may help. I'll post back if I find something useful.

58 hours is a long time, but RAID5 does have heavy duty redundancy, so maybe that's why there's such a long wait, due to each drive having redundancy data for every other drive in the array.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: ga-ep45-ud3p won't load xp with raid enabled

What does the RAID ROM say about this array?