A7N8X S-ATA RAID Woes

[Fat | Tony]

Ok, so i've got an A7N8x and 2 WD 80 gigs in there. I've never done RAID setup before, but i am pretty apt at computers so spare no l33t jargon. I went into the RAID configuration and set it up as a striped raid... and that's all i've done. Windows isn't detecting it, and i couldn't install windows to it when i took out my IDE HDD. I'm using the onboard serial ports, a friend of mine told me that might be a bad thing. I dunno... but I do have the raid drivers installed for the mobo. Ideally i want to set it up with the RAID being the only drives in this box. So, any help would be muchly appreciated.

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[Midknyte]

Which type of RAID are you talking about? RAID 0 has no fault tolerance. if one drive goes or the array gets corrupted, you'll lose all your data. RAID1 mirrors the data on both drives, but you only get 1/2 the total space.

when you reload windows, you need to use the f6 option to load the RAID drivers from a floppy. then you can continue like a normal install.

[Fat | Tony]

Yeah, I'm probably going to go with the mirrored since this is just going to be my games/windows comp. Uhh, the drives are both brand new and never used. Right now it's set up for RAID 0 but i'm probably going to change that. also. Not only do i not have a floppy drive (that CAN change, but i'd rather it not) I didn't get a floppy with the board or anything else, so i dunno if i could just dl some drivers and put them on the disk or something and have it work that way... blah stupid things and not just working like i want it to without having to do any work.

[Midknyte]

you need a floppy drive to install the raid drivers.

there should be a floppy creator or at least the drivers on the cd that came with the motherboard. otherwise, download them from the Asus website.

how critical is this data? are you sure you need to mirror the drives? if it's important data, then that's cool. just remember that you'll only have 80GB of space total, not 160GB. Your read times will be good, but the write times will be slower (has to write data to two drives).

You could just run the drives singly, but that's up to you. Just understand what you are getting into.

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html

BTW, the setup instructions should be in the user's manual as well. It would give you more step-by-step instructions.