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I do have the SATA Configuration set to "RAID" on the IDE Configuration.Randyman... said:I think you should be in "RAID" mode on the IDE Configuration if you are using a RAID Array. The individual drives will not show up in the POST. The HD's only show up in the Intel RAID screen where it shows the Array Asdignments, etc.
I am running a 2-Drive Raptor RAID-0, along with 2 non-RAID SATA HD's and a SATA DVD-RW. None of them show up in the POST (due to running in RAID mode), but they work fine in Windows...
Also, re-check your Boot Drives, and Boot Order. This appears to reset when updating your BIOS.
hi'rogelah said:I do have the SATA Configuration set to "RAID" on the IDE Configuration.
The boot order is SATA DVD-RW as "Primary" and the RAID10 array as secondary.
During POST it finds all disks (on SATA ports 0 to 3) and the DVD-RW on SATA port 5.
The Intel RAID screen shows the 4 disks in a RAID 10 array and is marked "Bootable" (they have not been formatted yet).
I get the message "Detect drives done, no drives found" just before the screen that displays the final listing before booting. The DVD-RW is shown as an ATAPI CDROM on SATA port 5.
The final listing screen is cleared and it gives the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key"
Any "You forgot to do ??" or gut feelings or suggestions will be appreciated.
It bricked my board.Randyman... said:What about the newest 1004? Is it not as good as 0910?
CD-ROM is plugged into slot 6 (port 5). There are 4x250GB HDDs plugged into slots 1, 2, 3, and 4 that make up the RAID10. I don't understand the need to format the RAID10 array before booting to do the Vista installation because that is where the drives will be formatted after I load the ICH8R driver.i686 said:hi'
your cdrom should not be a problem, if you want to boot from it, it has to be plugged on a red slot.
then first hdd on slot0 and second hdd on slot1 and so on on red plugs, your raid needs 4 hdds, the array should be one raid10, and in the post you can see them but as sata 1,2,etc
but how could you make a setup on one hdd, how many hdd's aren't formated? I'm afraid that you need to go through build an array from one hdd and then boot.
this might take a bit of time since the array has to be built befor boot and it's a four hdd's, and depends on the size too and you'll have to wait a bit ... don't reboot thinking something is going wrong.
in your bios try to set the first hdd as bootable first.
and the cd in second one.
stripe size 128k, this has been discussed long time, and appears to be the best.
after boot, you may go to intel matrix storage to check all this
and enable cache or not up to you
I don't know if it helps, but this is the way it is set in my rig.
although, I build a raid 0+1 only
i686
This problem occurs prior to booting the installation DVD, so Vista is not involved yet. I have tried setting up a RAID 0 with 2 disks, RAID 1 with 2 disks, RAID 10 with 4 disks and RAID 5 with 4 disks. POST finds the SATA DVD but when it comes time to boot from the DVD it can't find it.Randyman... said:I am using the Lite-on SATA DVD-RW drive on my P5B-D, and it works fine as a boot drive for installing XP (ICH8R in RAID mode). Maybe Vista is different?