TH7 2 RAID setup

[JT]

Just got my TH7 2 board and was reading through the manual.

Question is when setting up the RAID. First thing I do is install an OS on the one of the hard drives in the ide channel 3 or 4. Then once installed I install the RAID drivers that come with the motherboard. Then I go in to the BIOS and set up the RAID 0 which deletes everything on the two hd that will be RAIDed. So then do I just install the OS again????

Main question is I have to install the OS twice right????

Thanks alot

 

[Redphex]

step by step installation progress

-) connect 2 hdds to the raid-controller
-) power up, press CTRL+H during the HPT Bios initialisation
-) define raid-setup - reboot
-) boot from windows CD

-) for win98, me: follow installation instructions, install drivers, blabla
-) for w2k, xp: at the very beginning of the installation you will be prompted to hit F6 in order to install raid-drivers.
Do so, have your HPT driverdisk ready.
-) Follow the installation instructions, continue setup, blabla

 

[JT]

Ok so I set the RAID up were installing the os the first time.

Thanks Red!!

 

[Kaiser_Sose]

Can you give the instructions if you want to use the two Raid channels as regular ata 100 channels

 

[rengleca]

Yes:

What I had to do was install the OS with the HD on IDE0, shutdown, move it to IDE3, reboot, and have windows xp partition and format the second drive...

no worries.

 

[jlmoun0]

Raid 0r no raid What gives better performance?

I have tried Raid and without. Setting up Raid was too easy. But my access times from SiSoft 2002 show the raid gets 14 ms access time and non-raid gets 9 ms. This is with 2 60 gb ibm deskstar 60gxp. Am I doing something wrong? What gives the best performance?

 

[Cooler666]

Sandra often gives completely wrong benchmarks for hard disks, i wouldn't trust it