Re: Seting up raid 0 on Asus P5WD2-E Premium?
- From: jeanfrancois.chapdelaine@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 7 Jul 2006 06:53:34 -0700
jeanfrancois.chapdelaine@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
I just finished building my new computer. Here are the specs:
Asus P5WD2-E Premium
Pentium D 805 2.6GHz
2 x 512MB OCZ DDR2 800MHz Platinum Dual Channel
2 x 250GB Western Digital KS SATA 2 - 16Mb buffer
ATI RADEON X1600 512MB PCI-E
I'm not very familiar with raid. It the first time I try this.
From what I have read on the subject, the best way to install windowson striped drive is to set the array in the "bios" or the raid
controller interface and then load the raid controller's driver from
a floppy during the windows installation.
I have read the Asus P5WD2-E Premium user manual and from what I can
understand there is 3 different raid controller on that board. The
Silicon image Raid, the Intel Raid and the ITE 8212F Raid.
Now my questions are,
1. Witch controller should I use? ( faster/better )
2. Where do I plug my hard drives on the board so it will work with
that controller? (Near the Southbridge chipset or at bottom of the
board?)
3. How do I enable that controller in the bios?
4. And witch floppy driver correspond to witch controllers?
When I will know all this, I should be more then OK to setup this
thing.
Thanks for your help and patience.
JF
Hi,
I finally found all the information. For anyone interested,
1. The Faster/Better controller for this board is the Intel Matrix. I
heard that the Marvel controller is slower and is less stable. Also the
Intel Matrix is more user friendly to setup.
2. The Hard Drives must be connected in the sata port near the
Southbridge to work with the Intel Matrix controller.
3. In the bios, where you see "set sata as" you need to select raid.
And then this will allow you to enter the Intel raid controller setup
by using "ctrl+i" when the system boot. Then you can setup the array of
your choice with raid type you want.
4. The driver that corresponds to this controller is on the CD that
comes with the board. You can boot from the CD then select the first
choice on the menu that will appear. That will ask you to insert a
floppy in the floppy drive. Then it will copy the driver on that
floppy. You can now boot from your windows CD and press F6 to load does
drivers and then install windows on your Raided drives; ).
Op this will help someone, some day.
Cheers
JF
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