gordesky1 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 how do you do raid lol never did it or had it befor. Link to post Share on other sites
tito Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Get two sata drives, put them in sata0 and sata1 and configure it from the BIOS Link to post Share on other sites
brownhornet Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 http://www.overclock.net/faqs/48758-info-r...ners-guide.html Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 ok guys it detects the drives but when i push f4 for raid setup and it goes threw steps than it says cant not find retrive imfomation. and when i try the raid floppy it says wrong disk????? Link to post Share on other sites
shogan191 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Connect the twoor more identical drives physically to the computer. I leave my SATA drives to cable select. Go into the bios and be sure raid is enabled. There is usually a setting for raid and then there is usually a setting for each port. Enable the two or more ports you will be using. Be sure you have your raid drivers on a floppy. They are ususally on the motherboard cd unless it's Asus and then you have to go to their website and download them. Tap the F10/F8 or whatevery your particular board designates for configuring your raid. You will pick each drive that you want to use and the type of raid and stripe that you want Raid 0 for speed Raid 1 for backup Usually 128 or 64 stripe is good. If it has an auto or default let it choose. reboot to the OS cd and be ready to fap F6 and insert your floppy with raid drivers. Follow instructions from there. It's F6 Is it raid drivers for a DFI board that they supplied on floppy? If you had to download them you might have the wrong ones. Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 yep it came with a disk but says wrong disk Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 ok i think i got it now it loaded the raid bios so it showed both drives i say stripped on 0-1 drives than 16kb than i exited it didint tell me to format should it? or do low level format first? than setup the raid? Link to post Share on other sites
shogan191 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Normally you just format and partition using the windows install disk. If you want you could configure the raid array, and then boot to a hard drive WD or Maxtor, etc, utility to configure file system and partitions. I just use windows. Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 seems like it in raid but every time i try too installways by selecting the controller it restarts or if i let it to auto it shows a blue screen:( motherboard is dfi RDX200 CF-DR Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 think i found teh problem i took my 1stick of a-data ram out and tried it and its installing windows and allmost done.. now im not sure if it killed my stick of ram:( right now im not installing raid till i figure everything is ok. i let you guys know how everything goes:) Link to post Share on other sites
xtx Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 i use Nlite to slipstream raid drivers and make an unattended install cd. Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 ok i got everything working 100% the ram is ok to ram must of not like dual channel lol. ony thing i didint do is raid but is there anyway i could install it while windows is on? Link to post Share on other sites
xtx Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 ok i got everything working 100% the ram is ok to ram must of not like dual channel lol. ony thing i didint do is raid but is there anyway i could install it while windows is on? how many hdd's do you have? yes you can setup raid now. Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 2 160gbs setas so i could install raid while windows on? Link to post Share on other sites
xtx Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 2 160gbs setas so i could install raid while windows on? only if you had a 3rd drive. no way to setup raid and run windows on the 2 drives.what motherboard do you have? Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 dfi RDX200 CF-DR Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 so far everything is good:) Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 so far windows is installing with raid:) hdd is in one 303 partition the raid made it like that Link to post Share on other sites
gordesky1 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 http://www.pcpitstop.com/techexpress.asp?id=RA83FWKZ44WSCY3J looks like raid is working:) how does everything look? Link to post Share on other sites
Section8 Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 If it is showing as 1 Drive than you have set it up as RAID Link to post Share on other sites
X_C Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Yup, looks real good...Congrats! Link to post Share on other sites
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