Bad RAID Controller Card?

One of the arrays in my Xserve RAID had disappeared from the network and RAID admin software. All the disks that make up the array have green lights and appear in RAID admin. When the host PC reboots this array is no longer detected in the Apple Fibre Channel card BIOS. After having swapped cables around I reckon the RAID controller card has failed.
Is it safe to swap the top and bottom RAID controller cards to prove the diagnosis or does the controller hold information specific to the diskset it is connected to?

The diskset info is stored on the drives, so its perfectly fine to swap controllers.
On that note however, first of all make sure you really jam that controller board in there well... first time we swapped and it wasnt in there perfectly secure, 3 drives went red and the rest was history. Also, if your controller is acting up, definitly make sure things are backed up when swapping between sets... when we've had controller issues, its usually only been volumes going down on the computer's side, but I have heard of raid admin shooting back drive errors and turning things red as well.

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I need help getting the right PCIe Raid Controller card.

I have a Mac Pro 3.33 GHz (6 core) computer running 10.8.2. I purchased a Sans Digital TR4M+ http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid-/tr4mplus.html which includes a Highpoint RR622 card but it's not bootable. I need a non-expensive card which is bootable. I'm currently using the drives in JBOD mode.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I'm currently using the drives in JBOD mode.
The RAID features built into Disk Utility support JBOD, Mirroring, and Striping without the use of a card.
RAID methods that require checksum calculation, (e.g., RAID 5) always require a card to provide adequate speed.
Consider whether you really NEED your Mac OS X Boot Volume to be on a RAID at all. A great deal of its data is either invariant (Mac OS X code and Applications code) or temporary ( caches). If damaged, Mac OS X and Applications can be rebuilt from DVDs in a few hours.
Moving the Users files off to another Volume is a great way to speed up your Mac Pro, since it reduces competition for the busy Boot Drive.

Why a Apple RAID controller card cannot delete a RAID set?

Hi,
I just have a problem with my RAID set created with RAID Utility. My configuration is as follows:
     Mac Pro (early 2009 model) 2 x 2.66GHx Quad-Core, 16GB DDR3 1066Mhz Memory
     Apple RAID Card (HW Ver 2.00 and FW Ver E-1.3.20)
     1 x 1TB HD (Apple original) in Bay 1 as boot disk configured as Enhanced JBOD
     3 x 2TB HD (WD black series RE) in Bay 2 to Bay 4 configured as RAID 5
     Mac OS 10.7.4
The RAID Utility showed the following messages:
Degraded RAID set RS2 - No spare available for rebuild
Degraded RAID set RS2 - No spare available for rebuild
Degraded RAID set RS2
Drive 3:50014ee20352f5e8 missing - Previous drive status was inuse
Drive 3:50014ee20352f5e8 failure detected - Primary disk port unusable, previous drive status was inuse
Furthermore, RAID Utility shows:
1) Bay 1 (RS1 boot drive): Assigned, verified, Status good. viable (good)
2) Bay 2 (RS2 RAID 5): Assigned, verified, Status good, viable (degraded)
3) Bay 3 (RS2 RAID 5): Roaming, verified, Status good
4) Bay 4 (RS2 RAID 5): Assigned, verified, Status good, viable (degraded)
It also showed "Severe Events" message: "Degraded RAID set RS2 - No spare available for rebuild."
I tried to delete the RAID set using Apple RAID Utility but nothing happened. Can anyone help as I have to rebuild the RAID set from scratch? Thanks.

Hi flognoth,
flognoth wrote:
I have swapped the drives in bays and it is always bay 2. I'm coming to the conclusion that either the RAID card is failing in bay 2 or there is a Lion / Mountain Lion issue with the RAID card.
I would say this is not "a Lion / Mountain Lion issue with the RAID card", as I have an "Early 2009 Mac Pro" that is running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), fully patched, that is exhibiting a similar issue, after about 4 years of no such problems.
My RAID configuration is just like yours: 4x 2TB drives, with Bays 1 & 2 as RAID 1 and Bays 3 & 4 also as RAID 1. I keep losing either Bay 1 or Bay 2 disk, and after reboot typically see it as a good disk, in the green, but now unassigned to a RAID set, and marked as "Roaming". When I assign it as a spare, so far the RS1 RAID Set begins to rebuild, and things are okay for a short while.
Initially this happened about once a month, starting about 3 months ago, now it is a weekly or several times weekly event.
I've put in new disks (several), restored from a Time Machine backup, and just came in today to find the Bay 2 disk "Roaming".....
I'm going to try a new Mac Pro RAID card, as I have a spare - just looking for information about whether the replacement RAID card will pick up the RAID sets from info cached on the disks (I hope!), or whether I have to newly create the RAID Sets & Volumes, and then re-populate from Time Machine / the old disks.
I will say that I've been running 8 "Early 2008 Mac Pro" computers with RAID cards, each configured as above, and 4 "Early 2009 Mac Pro" computers similarly configured. These were all deployed between late 2008 and the beginning of 2010. I've had little difficulty with them, and they've been wonderful when an actual disk failure has occurred. I've had about 6 actual disk failures among all these setups.
cheers!

Xserve 2006 RAID Controller

Hi Everyone,
I have an Intel Xserve 2006. Recently the RAID controller card failed so I popped back in the regular SATA controller (that it originally came with) and ordered a new RAID controller.
I am pretty sure I have the correct one for the 2006 model but it does not seem to work. I have no battery on it (thought one would come with it) the original expanded and I am pretty sure broke the other RAID controller.
Any ideas why this new one is not working also? Is it the battery?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
David Lee

Hi David,
Have you got the new RAID card in there now or the SATA backplane? I'm in London as well so will try and help you out as much as I can if you need it.
Contact details on my profile.
Thanks
Beatle

Second IDE Raid controller

I have MSI K7T 266 Pro 2 RU board, onboard raid, i want to install second raid controller card. I cant get into a bios of second card. Second card is CMD PCI - 0649 Ultra 100 Raid controller.
If the a problems when running two raid controllers in one system?
And how can i get into the bios of second raid card.
P.S. card is installed in Windows XP fine. i can see two hard drives connected to it. Right after raid bios on onboard raid it looks windows.
Please help
Thanks

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Originally posted by pcman12345
My pc boots of onboard raid. (2) 40gig drives. What do new drivers have to do with getting into bios of pci raid card. I have all the latest drivers anyway.
Any other ideas?
Thanks for your help.
It sounds like you are booting from the promise RAID controller. If so, you are well familiar with the way in which it dominates the bootup process for the first 30 seconds or so.........(dots look familiar?...)
I wonder if the second RAID card is also initiating its bios sequence at the same time underneath the Promise boot screen (underneath, so to speak) so that when the Promise routine is finished, so is the CMD routine, and you proceed from that point with both RAID controllers initialized (but can only see one of them at a time from the bios screen.)
Do you you have "boot from other device" enabled in the bios? If so you might try disabling that to see if it will sequence the RAID controllers initialization so that the CMD bios appears after the Promise bios is done (I assume you have the onboard Promise array selected as the boot device.)
A bit more trouble would be to reboot to main bios, disable the onboard RAID controller in the bios, save and reboot. At this point the Promise bios will not display and you should see a CMD bios display which you could manipulate--then reenable the Promise controller to boot, etc. If you disable the Promise controller and you still don't see a bios for the CMD RAID device you need to look elsewhere. Also, it might be that the CMD bios access requires a certain key sequence pressed during post to display?....Just some random thoughts...

Mac Pro RAID and Boot Camp and eSATA controller Card

Hello all,
I have carefully read the topics concerning the Apple RAID card and its inability to run Boot Camp. Of course, I read this after placing my order. I have been mulling over my alternatives based on everyone's input. Here is what I want to do and how I think I can get there:
My system, when it finally arrives and is assembled will be:
Mac Pro 3.2GHz
12MG RAM
4 x 1TB hard drives
Apple RAID Card
ATI 2600
Except for the RAID card, the memory and drives are third party.
My plan was to create a RAID 5 with 3 of the internal drives, with the OS and apps on the non-RAIDed drive. I wanted to install Windows in a Boot Camp partition, but since learned this is not possible with the Apple card. I also planned on using the OWC Mercury Elite RAIDs I have (each enclosure house 2 x 500GB drives, and I have 4 enclosures for a possible max of 4TB of back up) to handle Time Machine (or other BU strategy) for the internals.
I have not received the Mac yet, so cannot look inside. From what I can gather, the Graphics card will occupy the Slot 1. The Raid Card will occupy Slot 4. This leaves me with only one 4x slot for a 4 port eSATA controller card (such as the RocketRAID 2314)
As I see it, I have a couple of obstacles to overcome, and I would appreciate advice/feedback on my possible solutions.
Problem 1: In order to use my existing OWC RAID enclosures, I need TWO controller cards, each with 4 eSATA connectors. Unless I scrap the 500GB drives for 1TB drives, I am stuck. Am I correct in assuming I cannot use Slot 2 for another controller card? Is there any work around?
Problem 2: Boot Camp. Can I purchase the Newer Technology extender cable to access the two eSATA ports on the Mac's motherboard to attach an external SATA drive for this purpose?
Questions:
1) I assume I can set up an external RAID (another RAID 5?) with my OWC drives and use Time Machine to back up to them?
2) From the illustration in the Mac Pro manual I downloaded, there appear to be only 4 PCIe slots, but 5 openings (one seems to be aligned with the back-up battery). I assume this is the double-wide space for the graphics card. Can I use the extra opening for the Newer Tech ports since there is no card taking up space?
3) Should I remove the Apple RAID card (resell on ebay) and buy the CalDigit RAID Card? It has the virture of allowing a Boot Camp install AND has ports that I can buy SAS to eSATA cables for, allowing me to use all of my OWC drives.
The CalDigit Card sounds good, but I would like to make the Apple card work if I can. Also, with the OPTIONAL battery back-up, the CalDigit card isn't that much less than the Apple card. Besides, I cannot find this card anywhere, everyone's at NAB, and it's Passover next week. AND I need to get this system up and running ASAP so I can begin making the money to pay for it.
Any input would be most welcome.
Gary

Problem 1: In order to use my existing OWC RAID enclosures, I need TWO controller cards, each with 4 eSATA connectors. Unless I scrap the 500GB drives for 1TB drives, I am stuck.
You could get new enclosures with SATA port multipliers for up to five drives per SATA port.
Am I correct in assuming I cannot use Slot 2 for another controller card? Is there any work around?
Apple says any PCI-e card should work in slot 2
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Conceptual/HWtechPCI/Articles/pciimplementation.html#>
"Mac Pro detects whether an inserted card is PCIe 2.0 (5.0 GHz) or PCIe (2.5 GHz) and selects the operation depending on the card's maximum capability."
but there have been reports of trouble (maybe caused by the recent firmware update). Check with the card maker to be sure.
Problem 2: Boot Camp. Can I purchase the Newer Technology extender cable to access the two eSATA ports on the Mac's motherboard to attach an external SATA drive for this purpose?
No. Those ports are only usable from OSX, but if you only have one optical drive, you can mount another drive in the lower optical drive bay with a Pro Caddy for use with Boot Camp.
<http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2704&RequestTimeOut=500>
This simplest connection is to use the optical ATA cable (with a SATA to ATA adapter for a SATA drive).
If you want to use a SATA connection, use a iPass to SATA cable from the iPass port on the Mac Pro logic board, which is normally used for the four SATA drives when there is no RAID card.
<http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=7252016>
Questions:
1) I assume I can set up an external RAID (another RAID 5?) with my OWC drives and use Time Machine to back up to them?
Yes
2) From the illustration in the Mac Pro manual I downloaded, there appear to be only 4 PCIe slots, but 5 openings (one seems to be aligned with the back-up battery). I assume this is the double-wide space for the graphics card. Can I use the extra opening for the Newer Tech ports since there is no card taking up space?
It looks like it should work if you route the cables just above the graphics card.
<http://www.newertech.com/Static/articles/images/macensteineSATA_5.jpg>

How do you know when your raid controller has gone bad?

I fired up my xserve raid 14X400 with 2X512mb Raid Controllers and drives 1-7 on the left won't show up at all. I swapped the controllers and then drives 8-14 won't show up. I have been trying to update the firmware from 1.5 to the latest and keep getting an error with the upper controller. I can't find anywhere that you can buy a new controller. Anybody know what I should do? My apple warranty ended in June and I didn't update it so Apple isn't going to help. What should I do? Can you have the controller card itself serviced? Thanks for any help. Also, I'm hoping that my media is still good?
Todd Stanley
Deadliest Catch Producer/shooter

Hi
If you have swopped the controllers around and the problem follows the controller then that is a pretty good indication that something is not quite right with the controller. Obviously reseating - basically pulling out the affected controller, a good blast of air inside to remove and dust/grit that might possibly be stopping a good connection and pushing it back again - the controller to see if that makes a difference is one thing you should do. Swopping them over effectively does this anyway. What does the events log in RAID Admin say? There is usually some indication in the log if there has been a problem.
Its an obvious question and possibly you may have forgotten it in the panic but when you purchased the XServe RAID did you not take up the spare parts kit option? If you did install the replacement controller. If you did not and in view of the fact you did not take out the extended warranty seems overly optimistic, your only recourse in my view is to remove the affected controller and send it to your nearest Apple Repair Specialist - or deal with Apple themselves. They should send you a replacement under their Global Service Exchange Program. Make sure you send the faulty part as well as knowing the XServe RAID’s Serial Number. They should send a 90 day warranty replacement within 2 days. If you are in the UK its going to be expensive (approx £350VATshipping). Actually its going to be expensive wherever you are.
There is a possibility that one of the other guys knows a method of getting this going again and will hopefully post a suggestion soon. However the sooner you act on this the sooner you can get your RAID array back on line. I do hope you have a current and effective backup in place just in case. You should be doing this anyway.
Hope this helps, Tony

Hi, we have a G5 Blade server running OS X 10.5.8 with a dual Fibre Channel card. The OS does not read the card and cannot establish connection to the RAID controller. I have tried to move the card to another port with no luck. Ran all the updated softwar

Hi, we have a G5 Blade server running OS X 10.5.8 with adual Fibre Channel card. The OS does not read the card and cannot establishconnection to the RAID controller.
I have tried to move the card to another port with no luck.Ran all the updated software possible. Please can someone advice

Hi,
Was the card previously working in that machine? If it was and you have a G5 tower you could try the card in there. Here is a list of Apple fibre cards and cables which show what's compatible with what. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1769
The card should appear in the System Profiler under Fibre Channel and PCI Cards.
All the best
Beatle

PCI ATA 133 RAID Card VS. PCI ATA 133 Controller Card

Hello,
I just bought a 300gb HD to put into my QS. I know I need to add another ATA card, but I noticed in stores there is a PCI ATA 133 RAID and a PCI ATA 133 Controller card.
What is the difference? The ATA 133 Raid card I saw is considerably cheaper. Can I use it to run my 300Gb drive as my startup drive (iDVD issues!)?
Thanks for your help.

Additional question: I have seen that there are a number of issues with SATA II drives in the early G5. Can you recommend a drive in the 500 GB range that would work well in the Dual 1.8 GHz? A SATA II would be a good option for the future... Thanks!

RAID set and JBOD on same controller card?

I'm planning to update my RAID from the current 4-disc software 0 in my MacPro to a RAID 5 with dedicated controller (for now) and here's what I'm planning (tentatively)
• RAID 5 consisting of 8 discs, 4 inside 5.1 MacPro with MaxUpgrade's kit in use for SAS connectivity , and 4 more discs in a 1U rackmount SAS chassis, possibly OWC's new 'trayless' unit, or another similar chassis.
• Areca RAID controller ARC-1880ix-12 is what I'm leaning towards at this time.
I don't have the cash or demand (yet) for a system in a huge expansion chassis and 24 drives, but my the main thing I want to know, (since I've never had this many discs to play around with before) is when I create an 8 disc RAID 5 Array for storage, can I also connect another external chassis to the controller as a JBOD unit and have those drives therein function independently, with swap capability of single volumes? This would be very handy for individual cleint-drive backups and would free up my eSATA interface for file ingest and more flexibility.
I do know I would have to get an adapter to run more than one external SAS connection cause the Card only has one External SAS port as is. I may go with a different card with more channels for more future expansion, but it will more than likely have more internal ports than external.

l_elephant wrote:
your system is on that RAID0?
do you regularly clone your system, for when, (not in case), the RAID0 fails?
Yes, when working I backup the data ideally after every time I add footage to the RAID, if not at least once daily.
have you considered the added security of RAID6 (if your going to have that many drives . . .)
I have, and it will probably be the next step if I go to a RAID larger than 8 discs. IF I do start getting the need for 16+ I may go to a RAID 10.
when you mean storage, do you mean like archival, past projects type storage, or current working projects drive space?
Working projects. Also will look into LTO for archival in the future if the demand necessitates it.
can I also connect another external chassis to the controller as a JBOD unit and have those drives therein function independently, with swap capability of single volumes?
yes
Thank you, this is the main question I had, do you have a specific experience such as this you would share?
I do know I would have to get an adapter to run more than one external SAS connection cause the Card only has one External SAS port as is. I may go with a different card with more channels for more future expansion, but it will more than likely have more internal ports than external.
you're describing SAS expander. You can easily have more than 200 drives connected.
No I'm describing a PCI plate SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 Adapter, like this one:
http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sascablesadapters/AD8788-4.asp
Like I said, most of the cards I'm looking at have more internal 8087 ports than the external 8088 ports.
what kind of work are you doing? Vidéo, audio? One project at a time, or parallel projects? Alone or with others (colleagues, employees)? The Caldigit system looks nice for large teams of people.
This would be a mobile installation, with me as a single operator handling digital video footage, so this would be direct attached storage, no network interface necessary. Usually one project at a time, but if I get busier hopefully more than one.

Boot from Raid-hdd with a controller card installed?

Hi,
I have a problem. I've just intalled a Windows 2000 my HDD3 (IDE-raid) and everthing went well. I've put the 1st boot option to SCSI and it boots normal. But when I add a hdd to my controller card (Promise Ultra100) it doesn't boot the raid, instead, it tries to boot from the hdd on the controller-card. I've just got this card, and had a KT3-Ultra ARU before. There I could change between "Ultra-0, Ultra-1, Raid-0 and Raid-1 etc. etc." in the bios, where Ultra stands is the Controller card and Raid in the onboard raid. So, why can't I do this on this, newer card? Any1 know how to work around it or how to fix it?
This is what I have:
IDE1:
Master: Western 180GB
Slaev: Maxtor 250GB
IDE2:
Master: NEC 1300A
Slave: Lite-on-it 40125W
IDE3 (Raid):
Master: Maxtor 80GB
Slave: Maxtor 80GB
Controller card IDE4:
Master: Western 250GB
Slave: Western 250GB
Controller card IDE5:
Master: Western 200GB
Slave: Seagate 30Gb
Controller card = Promise Ultra100
And yes, I have the modded version of the bios couse I wanted to have a real raid on my IDE-drives. How can it even be raid if it's only one drive? But that doesn't really matter, couse the boot-options are the same as before.

Hi, I did as u said and bought a new controller card (Titan Electronics Inc. Ultra ATA/133 IDE). But it didn't help, it's the same as with the older Promise card.
This is what happenes:
When I add a hdd to the controller card it finds the hdd and such. Everything works normal untill the os-boot-process begins. Because there is only one alternative called "SCSI" in the bios, where u chose where to boot from it thinks it should boot from the controller card (cause it is a kind of SCSI-card). But I want it to boot from the raided-drivers on the onboard raid (whitch also is a kind of SCSI-card). The thing is that it mixes them up, and only tries to boot from the controller card i've installed, and ignores the raided-drivers. When I had my Kt3 Ultra-aru I could chose between booting from:
IDE0
IDE1
IDE2
IDE3
CDRom
Raid0
Raid1
(this options only showed up when I had my Promise ULTRA controller installed on it)
ULTRA0
ULTRA1
ULTRA2
ULTRA3
But with this, newer and more expensive card, I can only chose SCSI in the boot sequnce.
Any idea how to fix that? Maybe to mail to the MSI so they fast can added that choice to the BIOS in an update?
Would be thankfull for any help possible

Brand New RD240 ThinkServer can not see the LSI 8708EM2 RAID Controller During Bootup

I have a brand new out the box RD240 ThinkServer that can not see the LSI 8708EM2 RAD Controller it came with. This RAID controller simply does not want to function. This RAID Cntroller does not show up during the boot up and I even tried putting in a different slot in the riser card, thinkn maybe it was a bad PCI-e slot, but made no difference. Also the Lenovo Easy Setup software does not find this controller either. So I'm wondering if there is an issue with the RAID Controller or is it a bad Riser card? Does anyone have any idea's on what can be done or what I may be missing?

For a list of Warranty Support contact numbers, please visit:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/feedback/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-76613
In the U.S. you can call: 1-800-426-7378

MSI K9N2 Diamond 780a & On Board Raid Controller

So like to know anyone would know why Raid 0 setup with 4 Seagate ST3250410AS would have get corrupted BOOTMGR & BCD after few day on idle time. Since I build this system with pair of 9800Gx2 and AMD 955, always had issue with the raid. Just to be getting worst over time. System seem to crash out and this is a clean install of Window 7 64bit with nothing but drivers. Reboot, show only channel 2 SATA drive failed and sit there waiting for me to fix it. Now every drive been tested and two have been replace by Seagate to to rule out two drives. No matter what drive in channel 2 SATA still will fail on that channel. I've already replaced cables on the drive, nothing change it. Seagate no longer willing to work with me saying Nvidia issue. MSI wont support board seeing no longer being made. Video card, CPU, Motherboard all have been replace this year under RMA. So seeing there new parts and clean OS, I can't think of anything on top of my head that would cause this.
Love to know anyone else as had problems with this chipset or think of idea to try.
Foxler of Furry Fandom

Quote from: Jack on 02-December-10, 16:32:26
PSU maybe? What kind of device are you using (brand & model name)?
If it was PSU, would have lot more issue than Raid.
TPG-750M
W0158RU - Video Cards
Quote from: Bas on 02-December-10, 20:21:07
One of the drives gone bad?
As stated dosen't matter which of the drives are in channel 2 Sata, it always fail on that channel. All drives been tested, two were replace by Seagate just because I felt they were bad. Had +20k hours on them. Once you power down, the array would come back to normal.
Quote from: Fredrik on 02-December-10, 21:51:57
Yeah. Just a thought, are they all jumpered the same? Try SATA 1. And we know Windows 7 has had issues with RAID 0 setups before, so go search for an updated driver.
Lulz, Nvidia hasn't update there drivers since last year. So there no update for 780a chipset. I run a 4 drive setup on MSI 890FX been fine to this day. Seeing only happen when the system in idle, I've believing there some power management kicking in on the chipset, even so I have power profile set to "always" on everything.
I'm to that point were dropping all Nvidia support in my shop. Since 590SLI boards there as been bug and bug with all there chipset and video cards.
Hybrid SLI - (Only Issue In High Clock RAM)
GeForce Boost
590, 680a, 750a, 780a Raid Issue ( got 6 boxes of good motherboard, that I had to replace out because Raid controller.
Driver for 196.75 stop some video cards fan, took my 9800GX2 and got 2 8800GT, and 9800GTX+ that failed in other builds from that update.
Mobile GPU issue since GeForce 8xxx line, just ask HP, Apple, and my 9800m GTS, 480m GTX SLI setup.
Dropping support holder, as we all know BFG and XFX no longer have Nvidia video cards. BFG lost sales over OEM video cards and killed company. XFX started to sell ATI base, then Nvidia wouldn't sell them new Fremi cards. I'm glad I only put MSI video cards in all system I've built for myself and other. BFG no longer up holding to the warranty on there cards.
More work than I need ~sigh~
Foxler

Problem with NEO2 and sata controller card

1.Product Type: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (MS-7025)
and the controller card is a InnoVision DM-8301 and the hard drive is a Seagate ST3320620AS
2.BIOS version: The newest one, 1C0 or something.
3.External VGA Type: Geforce 6800 GT
4.CPU Type: AMD 64 3500+
5.Memory Type: G Skill ZX 2048mb.
6.Power Supply Type:
7.Operating System: Xp Pro
8.Problem Description:
Hello. I have a strange problem with my controllercard. I wrote this text to InnoVision suport and they send me files and bios updates for a whole week and it was still the same problem. And then i tried the card in an older computer and everything worked fine.
I wrote
"Hello. I got some problems with my new controller card. I can find my new harddrive ,that's conected to the controller card, when iam inside windows and it's seems to be no problem. I can look on every seting on it and everywhere i look i can read "No problem". I Also did some test with the seatools programe and everything was fine. But when i schould copy files to it the coumputer start lagging after a few seconds and i cant do anything. After a while i can move the mouse around but the it laggs again. My computer is overclocked at the time but i have tried to use the harddrive when it's not clocked also. Also when im goin in to teh controlpanel and starts the setings for Sillicon Images sata controll and have music on my computer, the music laggs for a very very short moment. Something must be wrong and i can not find it."
It's still the same problem in my computer. The older computer had a MSI moderboard with a VIA chip and i have a nForce 3. InnoVison said i should talk to you about this problem. I have 3 harddrives but i use this controllercard because i want to have my computer overclocked and then i can't use 2 of the sata ports as i think you know.
I would be very thankful if you could help me with this problem.
//Martin

I've used a noname SATA pci card (non raid) with SIL3112 on my neo2 without problems with 1C bios.
Think you may try with a disk lower than 48bitLBA need (137GB barrier), eg a 120GB disk
Quote:
have the InnoVision EIO DM-8301 and had alot of problems using it with WD 160MB SATA drive.
I am using Intel 865 based MB with 2 original SATA channels. The original SATA channels are bootable.
I could not used the EIO card with 160G HDD. The whole setup is working only after I connected oine of my 120G Segate SATA HDD to the EIO Sata card.
I think this card do not properly support HDD above 120G.
Please respond to: [email protected]
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/storage-devices-80/sata-as-boot-20080-2.html
Btw: you have xp sp2 ?
48bitLBA is not enabled in the first version.
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm
Edit:
Here's another with complete different setup and same problems
http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/Topic212148-4-1.aspx
I doubt it has anything to do with your motherboard and/or bios.
Btw: I looked at innovision and their drivers in download area are very old.
Get the latest SIL3112 drivers for XP here:
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=63&cid=3&ctid=2&osid=4&
And remember 3112 is sata150 only , so it's not sure it will work with your drive at all .
Anyway it should be set to fixed sata1.5G with jumper - not certain the controller can autonegotiate
without trouble. You cannot have command queing enabled either , disk support only NCQ and controller TCQ
so having command queing set ON will cause major conflicts in data transfers.

RAID controller on G4; problems... is RAID dead? Help please!

Hey.
Here's the deal... Our graphics department has a MAC G4 (fully upgraded. newest patches, OS, etc.) that's got a 4 port SATA RAID controller. They use this with four 750GB hard drives as an external RAID (the OS is on a seperate, 65GB hard drive). The way it's set up, through Apple's OS, is we have the four 750GBs in pairs... those pairs are striped, and then the two sets of striped 750s are mirrored. This has worked just fine for a number of months, but we recently had a power surge, and now we're unable to mount "Monkey" (the name of the 1.4TB array).
See the below screenshots for more clarification.
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/raidsetup.JPG
This shows the RAID card, and the four SATA cables coming out of it.
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside1.JPG
As you can see in this and the below screenshots, this shows the 1.4TB Striped set as 'online', but the two below (the two 750GB hard drives) show up as "offline".
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside2.JPG
this shows the actual drive i click on. same thing
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside3a.JPG
If i click the entire array, you can see how it's set up (the Mirrored RAID set consisting of the two Striped RAID sets). The RAID sets (all 3 of them) are showing up as online, yet the drives are offline. No idea why. The drives are all powered, and are spinning, and plugged in.
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside3b.JPG
when you click "Monkey Drive", nothing shows up in it. i don't remember if anything ever used to. if you click 'mount', nothing happens.
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside4.JPG
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/leftside5.JPG
this shows the exact same problem as the first RAID set.
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/verifyRAIDset1.JPG
If you try to Verify the RAID set, it shows that no repairs are necessary
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/verifymonkey.JPG
If you try to verify Monkey, you get a "Volume Needs Repair" error... but when you try to repair it, you get this:
http://www.amcdoors.com/lorenzo/repairmonkey.JPG
Really need help; this is a pretty critical problem. Someone that's familar with RAID solutions on MACs please help me out. We can't risk losing any data if at all possible.
Thanks
~Lorenzo

have you gotten this to work yet ?? if not let me know
-d

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