2 SATA RAID drivers come with Neo4?

I don't get it.. The Neo4 comes with 2 floppy disks. One SATA RAID Driver from Silicom Image, and one from nVidia.
Why 2, is one better than the other?
And why do I need to install it? I don't use RAID, I only have one SATA disk in my system. Yet "RAID Driver" comes up as uninstalled in my Device Manager?

My motherboard has 8 SATA ports http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/13-130-484-02.JPG see? 4 orange 4 purple.
But I only use SATA1 (one purple)
Why do I need to disable the others, do they clutter up system speed? do they steal power?
Which one should I use for my single harddisk, does it make any differnece if I use orange or purple? It's like choosing red or blue pill, I have no clue.

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[email protected]
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Quote from: Quadrifoglio Verde on 03-March-07, 23:47:11
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you no need to put them both, only one of them.
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Im looking to install Windows XP pro 64 bit and notice the only drivers that are missing in the download section is the Raid drivers for Nforce3.
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Quote from: Supershanks on 15-August-05, 19:39:15
I'm confused your after nvidia drivers yet spec shows = VIA® K8T800 chipset.
If Nvidia d/load the nvidia64 drivers & make a new floppy with the updated drivers. to do this Right click the D/L driver File & select unpack/unzip. Navigate to the \Nvidia\nForce_vrsion ?? \IDE\WinXP folder copy everything except the raidtool Folder onto floppy.
luck
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I have built all three the same way (F6 install on all three, install both drivers for the nforce3's, intel ich5r raid driver for the intel). I'm using twin 74GB Raptor 10k's in RAID0 for all three.
After the base OS build and chipset driver installation, The fastest of the three is the gigabyte board at 106MB/sec in Sandra.
Coming in second at 100MB/sec is the Intel system.
Dead last is this MSI board, at 57MB/sec.
I've cross-checked with HDTach, and the results are similar. The other boards are twice as fast with RAID0 than the MSI.
Is this a "known issue"? I've tried upgrading drivers and everything (The latest are the ones on MSI's site, but they yield the same results, even after a fresh F6 install using them).
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Seems alright for others, though I don't know what sata ports (1&2 or 3&4) he is using.

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Hello,
I have a PATA drive installed as Master on IDE-3 (Promise Controller), using Windows XP as the operating system. I also have an aditional drive as Slave on IDE-3.
I recently bought 2 SATA drives which I would like to use as a RAID array, so I connected them to SER-1 and SER-2, on the ICH5R controller.
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The PATA IDE channel associated with the Promise controller is exclusively designed to be used as a RAID solution. It seems you have an invalid hardware installation of your 2 EIDE drives. Although you succesfully installed WinXP using that configuration, you're destined to have unpredictable behavior because of it.
WinXP looks to the BIOS first to identify hard drives. Then it does something that no other OS has done before (except maybe Win2K), it attempts to detect the hard drive directly through the wires itself. If it finds something, it installs resources to get it to work right. In your case, WinXP has bypassed the BIOS and detected the drives but doesn't really know where they are. WinXP just knows they are there so it supplied the necessary resources to complete the installation.
That drives that are connected to the Promise controller must use the Promise RAID drivers supplied with your motherboard so that the Promise controller can properly report to the OS. You could have conected the same two drives on the same controller, but they needed to be configured as RAID drives within the Promise controller utility.
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Finally, you would set the "Onboard Promise IDE" menu as "RAID" to have the drives properly recognized through the BIOS. Currently, you have that set as "S-ATA" but you have no S-ATA drives installed on that controller.
I realize this does not resolve your original problem, but at this point, I would recommend that you back-up data at your earliest convenience and start over.
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K7N2G-ILSR (MS6570G) Promise RAID Driver trouble with 1TB SATA-II HDD XP SP2

Hi, I'm having trouble getting XP to recognise my new HDD.
I am using a MSI K7N2G-ILSR. I already have a 40GB IDE drive I use for the OS and apps, and an 80GB drive I use for storage. I recently bought a new 1TB Samsung SATA-II drive to increase the storage.
To begin with I simply plugged it in (port on the mobo marked SER1) and hoped XP would auto detect it. No such luck, so I used a USB to SATA convertor to connect the drive, format it, and check it worked properly. All OK, but still no result from windows when I go to the disk management settings.
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The drive came with jumper pins but no jumpers. I am slightly confused as I have read the jumpers can be used to force 150 speed from the drive, but also that SATA-II is 100% backwards compatible and doesn't need jumpers whether it's host is SATA or SATA-II.
I have read through various threads in this forum and have not been able to find a solution. The drive works fine, the RAID bios seems to work fine, but I can't achieve a detection by XP (with SP2).
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Quote from: blardyblah on 08-November-08, 05:31:23
Cool, thanks. It wouldn't let me install the exe, was I supposed to change to extension to .inf? Anyway, it did let me install the Promise driver from the floppy, and that now shows properly in the device manager.
I will reboot and report back.
"Cool, thanks. It wouldn't let me install the exe, was I supposed to change to extension to .inf?"
No, just run it 1st. Its self extract archive which will expand the drivers to desired location.
"Anyway, it did let me install the Promise driver from the floppy, and that now shows properly in the device manager."
Yes, that's the same drivers.
"I will reboot and report back."
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[Athlon64] 'No disks detected' when installing WinXP64bit on striped SATA RAID

I've been using my RS480M2 board with a dual boot config (WinXP Pro 32bit and WinXP Pro 64bit) using a Maxtor Diamond Plus 80G SATA hard drive configured as an IDE/ATA. I set the controller as "IDE Controller" in the bios. Everything has been working just fine and I must say that I really do notice a big performance improvement on the WinXP64bit compared to the WinXP32bit.
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Sorry for the late reply. I finally got to install Windows XP Pro 64bit onto my RS480M2-IL configured as SATA RAID 0 (striping) with 2 80G DiamondPlus SATA hard drives. The sata drive that worked is the one on this link:
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Three manuals with this mobo and I just can't get it set up.
I have the 865PE Neo2-FIS2R, an Intel 3.0GHZ Northwood processor, a pair of 256 memory chips configured as dual channel. A pair of SATA drives are on the Intel ports. The IDE has four devices connected, a HDD, Zip drive, and a pair of CDs. All of the hardware, jumpers, cables seem to be working fine.
My goal was to have a SATA Raid 0 setup, with the spare drive for backup and misc storage. CD's and Zip for input, burning, etc.
After everything was connected I booted Win XP Pro from the CD, did the F6 thing and installed the drivers for both Intel and Promise (Fastrack and drivers). Setting up the bios "Integrated Peripherals" was a real problem and the book very little help, but I finally got the system to recognize things so I could format and boot and install the OS. I did the Control-I thing and configured the Raid drives (at least I think). So far, so good.
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What I'm leaving out are the--literally--hours of time I've spent trying to get the devices configured right in the Bios' "Integrated Peripherals." I have no idea what I'm doing and the book is no help. But the devices are all there now and the OS runs fine (but not as a Raid 0 set up).
The book says I can migrate this configuration to a Raid volume. How, when I get that error message?
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ardi

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Quote
The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition offers the flexibility to
upgrade from a single Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive to a two drive RAID 0
configuration when an additional SATA hard drive is added to the system.
This process will create a new RAID volume from an existing disk. However,
several important steps must be followed at the time the system is first
configured in order to take advantage of RAID when upgrading to a second
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1. BIOS must be configured for RAID before installing Windows* XP
on the single SATA hard drive.
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2) In the SATA RAID Contoller you need to setup a RAID Array with your SATA Drive.
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P55-CD53, how to install SATA AHCI drivers and Matrix Storage Manager?

Please excuse my noobness as this is for my first PC build and much of it is Greek to me, but could someone please inform/educate me as to what the following drivers (link) are for and which need to be installed after a fresh installation of Windows 7 Pro x64? Do I need to install all of them because some of these appear to be redundant, just from different manufacturers, or am I mistaken? I have a single 500GB HDD but will probably add more down the road.
JMicron JMB36x IDE Drivers (including floppy driver)
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Update Date   2009-07-27
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Update Date   2009-07-24
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Thanks.
After booting from the Windows 7 disc, I selected Repair Windows, Load Drivers. Which specific controllers do I need to install for the P55-CD53 MB since there are multiple controllers listed for each of the four SATA compressed files?
Considering the multiple files and multiple controllers, is there no one out there with a P55-CD53 that has AHCI mode enabled that can give dumbed down instructions on how to do so?
The manual states "Select the appropriate RAID controller and press enter." Well... which one is the appropriate controller? Am I suppose to load the driver for all the AHCI controllers if that's even possible?
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Intel(R) ICH 10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 6 Port
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Turns out that none of the drivers for the controllers listed in iaAHCI.inf could be installed. However, I went ahead and installed the drivers listed for all the controllers in iaStor.inf. I reinstalled Windows 7 to get rid of the BSOD. I then installed the chipset drivers and Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

PT8 Neo SATA Raid Configuration Utility

I recently upgraded my system which was running a AMD athlon 1.2GHZ processor and only 128mb SDRAM. The system was stable and running windows XP home edition.
I upgraded to the PT8 Neo motherboard which supports SATA hard drives. I was expecting a dramatic increase when I upgraded my system to the new P4 800mhz FSB 3.0GB processor and 512MB DDR 400mhz ram.
I was still using my WD 60GB EIDE Hard Drive when I upgraded the Motherboard, Ram, & Processor. The upgrade went smoothly and system worked without glitches.
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I have updated the bios of the motherboard and updated the driver for the SATA raid controller using Live Bios Update 3.
I am having 2 problems:
Problem 1. When I enter the bios for the SATA Raid configuration utility after the initial post by pressing , none of the selections are available. I move my arrows down but nothing highlights and I can't select anything in the configuration utility except ESC key to exit.
The SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS.
The initial SATA Raid Configuration displayed immediately after the post, does show the hard drive.
I want to be able to boot from the new WD Raptor Hard Drive and transfer all the existing files from the IDE Drive to the SATA drive, but I can't seem to get the drive to initialize, format, fdisk, etc.
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Keep in mind, I have downloaded the latest bios, latest drivers, etc.
The rest of the components on my machine are as follows:
1. Custom Built Computer (Non-Branded)
2. 60GB Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE Hard Drive on IDE0 (Master)
3. DVD Rom on IDE0 (Slave)
4. MSI 52x32x52x CDRW on IDE1 (Master)
5. Zip 100 IDE Drive (Slave)
6. Floppy Drive
7. Pentium 4 3.0GZ 800mhz FSB
8. 512mb DDR 400mhz Memory
9. ATI All-In-Wonder PCI Video Card
10. SIIG Firewire controller
I have already tried removing the SIIG firewire controller thinking that it was getting in the way of available resources. That did not work.
I have invested alot of money on this system, I wanted the best and have always used MSI motherboards because of their stability and reliability.
Please help as soon as possible.
Thanks

first off you are only using one SATA so no option are avalible in Raid Bios
in order to install windows the safe way detach your 60ata hrad drive plug in the raptor and install windows then Press F6 at the begining the you will have to the SATA diskett in the floppy drive in stall SATA windows drivers continue with install.
once you are fished Windows, drivers then shut down and plug in your ATA hard drive turn on your PC enter the bios navagate to the Advanceed BIOS Features/Boot Sequency selected your SATA raid drive as First boot then CD roms as second. then your done boot in to windows

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