NVIDIA NForce Raid not recognized by windows

[soundfx4]

I have been searching for an answer to this problem for a while, and I finally decided to post this as a question in the OCforums. I can't seam to get RAID working with my two 160 gig WD HDDS. I enabled RAID in the bios, and enabled IDE 0 Master, and IDE 0 Slave for RAID. I enter the NVIDIA Raid setup and setup a stripping RAID with default options. The Raid utiltiy then recognizes the two drives as a 298.10 GB drive. After I boot into windows, however, the drives are recognized as two independant drives. I installed the NVIDIA Nforce ATA raid controller version 5.10.2600.446. That is the version reported in the device manager. I have read about problems with the nForce 3 250 GB RAID, but all the problems I have read about seam to all be different problems. If anyone has had any experiance with this, please let me know asap. Thanks.

[soundfx4]

bump :cry:

[man_utd]

As far as I'm aware there has been no real fix for this, just a problem with nvraid. Can you use the other sata ports?

[soundfx4]

I'm don't know; I only have two identical PATA drives, all my SATA drives are different so I couldn't check :(


So has this been an issue with everyone? Does anyone actually have a working Raid via the NVIDIA Raid Rom? PATA or SATA?

[redduc900]

I enabled RAID in the bios, and enabled IDE 0 Master, and IDE 0 Slave for RAID
I didn't think either the Sil 3114 or the native onboard RAID controllers supported PATA drives, unless of course you used two PATA to SATA adapters. I was thinking there were only 2 SATA ports for the native RAID controller, and 4 SATA ports for the Sil RAID controller.

[soundfx4]

I could have sworn it did support PATA. It shows up under the bios as a 298 GB Nvidia drive. Wouldn't that mean that it supports it? Maybe I'm wrong :confused:

[sean478]

did u use the nvraid driver durring win setup thats wat i have to do or it doesnt work asumeing that windows isnt on the raid

[delman]

I also had to install the raid drivers when I installed windows in the setup by hitting F6 at the very begining of the set up screen is displayed. than it asked for the floppy after it loads some drivers.

[soundfx4]

No, I didn't because I don't have a floppy drive. I have abandoned floppy drives because they are painfully slow, and they don't hold near enough data. Someone really needs to come up with a new standard for simple magnetic bootable disk. But either way, why would that effect it? I'm not installing windows on the raid so shouldn't I be able to install it any time I want?

[sean478]

I Dont Know Y It Afects It But It Does And (sloppys) Do Need To Bite The Dust They Are Anoying

[shadowdr]

Did you try the windows based raid utility to configure the array? I am assuming that your boot drive a sata drive and you want to configure two pata drives for a storage array.I am also assuming that you have optical drive on IDE 2 so that the array is on master and slave of IDE1.As far as I can tell this is supported but it being on a single channel I would not think the setup is optimal for raid0.Are you sata drives the same size as the pata? It looks as though the IDE and two SATA ports can be configured together to form an array.It is hard to tell exactly how to configure them as the mobo manual I looked at refers to advanced documentation on the driver disc.Did it perhaps come with SATA to PATA adapters so that you could run the PATA's on the SATA ports?

I would look into the windows based utility first as it may have a way to configure the array that the bios does not.The raid driver should have been installed before configuring the drives in the bios.I assume you DID do this in the correct sequence or the bios would not reflect the correct size of the array,and that the drives are jumpered to master and slave accordingly or again the bios could not set the raid mode.

[soundfx4]

Windows Raid utility? :confused: The only utility windows has is the disk managment console, and it doesn't see a 298 gig drive like it should, it see's two 150 gig drives. Is there another utility that I don't know of?

[soundfx4]

And (sloppys) Do Need To Bite The Dust They Are Anoying

Definitly, we should all put up a ban on floppy drives or something. I wish zip drives were a standard, those are actually fast. Although there are probably much better replacements out there for floppys.

[shadowdr]

The manual refers to an Nvdia raid utility located on the drivers disk that must be used to create the array.

[soundfx4]

The manual refers to an Nvdia raid utility located on the drivers disk that must be used to create the array.


oh yeah, I used that, it doesn't recognize the raid either. :(