Disk on MSI mobo RAID controller to another MSI mobo

Hello,
I'm running two drives in a non-raid setup but they are connected to the RAID controller on the K7N-Delta ILSR motherboard. What I was wondering is wheter I can reconnect these drives directly on the regular controllers without hitches. And can I expect these disks to work properly if i buy a new motherboard and connect them to the RAID controller on the new motherboard which has possibly a diffrent raid controller integrated.

Hello! If the RAID controller is different you might have a problem with a new mobo.
Is there anything obstructing you from saving the data somewhere else, when fixing the setup that you want? 'Thinking it could be a work-around to store selfcreated, important data and stuff on a regular cheapo IDE disk for a while. Updates and programs is not too hard to find, so there is no absolute need to copy and store those.

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Hello
I'm going to install a RAID-1 with 2 SATA harddisks from seagate using the onboard VT8237 RAID controller of my KT6 Delta.
I guess there should be no problems and that the temperature on the motherboard will be fine.
However, what will happen if I want to move later on to a new motherboard with another raid controller or install a dedicated RAID controller?!?
Will I loose all my data? Or will the new raid controller duplicate the data based on the source drive?
Thanks
JohnQM

I have read somewhere that the following migration paths apply for raid:
1. raid-1 can always be migrated to a new RAID controller, no matter which brand, because raid-1 is just a mirror and no important information is written in the partition table
2. raid-0 or other raid-levels
2.0 from one brand of RAID controller to the same version of the RAID controller of the same brand: no problem
2.1 from one brand of RAID controller to a new version of the RAID controller of the same brand: usually no problem (upwards compatible)
2.1 from one brand of RAID controller to a RAID controller of another brand: no go
Can someone confirm this please?
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JohnQM

More than 4 IDE devices using the Raid controller on the MSI-6567 645E Max2-LRU ?

Here is the specs page of the board
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=79
I have a HD and a CD-ROM drive on the first IDE controller, and an HD and a CD-writer on he second IDE controller
Since the specs say the board only supports 4 IDE devices I was wondering-
1) Can I connect another HD to one of the onboard Raid controllers, and work with it in addition to all the other IDE devices currently plugged in, without RAID?
i.e. CD-writer, CD-ROM, and 3 HD's working together ?
2) Can I connect 2 more HD's, one to each onboard RAID controller and have them work in raid in addition to all existing IDE deviced?
i.e. CD-writer, CD-ROM, 2 HD's and 2 more HD's in RAID format working together ?
Thanks in advance..

But like I said, I do not intend to connect CD-ROMS to the RAID controllers, only HD's - the CD-ROM and CD-Writer are currently connected to the normal IDE controllers and I don't plan on changing that in any case
My question was whether or not i can add more HD's to my current system by adding them to the RAID IDE's
simply put, to be 100% clear my question is this -
will the current configuration work:
IDE 1 = CD-ROM + HD1
IDE2 = CD-WRITER + HD2
RAID IDE1 = HD3
and will this one work:
IDE 1 = CD-ROM + HD1
IDE2 = CD-WRITER + HD2
RAID IDE1 = HD3
RAID IDE2 = HD4
when HD3&4 work in RAID mode
Thanks again for you help
RE your suggestion - why not put a CD-ROM and an HD on the same IDE ? that way my HD's are connected to different IDE controllers for better performance

Intel raid controller ROM in MSI 875 updated yet?

Intel recently enabled the raid 1 option for the raid controller in their ICH5R chipset.
On the Intel website under the "Important information on Intel RAID Option ROM version" section Intel write the following:
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In order to fully utilize the new features included in version 3.5 of the Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition, Intel recommends that you first upgrade your system BIOS to one that includes version 3.5 of the Intel RAID Option ROM. You can obtain this system BIOS from your motherboard or system manufacturer.
The latest bios for my 875P Neo-FIS2R MS-6758 was released 2003-6-26 so I find it hard to believe that the 3.5 raid ROM is included since the software was (officially) released on 7-7-2003.
Furthermore I still have no raid 1 option when configuring my intel raid controller - only performance arrays can be set up.
When will MSI release a new bios with the latest Intel raid controller ROM?
Best regards
Andreas

I also humbly await the arrival of the (875P)6758 1.7 Bios update to enable RAID1......Any ideas on when we might get it?...any one?........eeerrrr...how about an ftp site address for a beta bios? anyone?..speak up I can't hear you back there........
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Polecat out

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

MSI GNX MAX-FISR P4, RAID Controller

I just ordered and received a MSI GNX MAX-FISR P4 motherboard, and I have a question. My impression is this has a RAID controller, yet P. 2-18 of the manual suggests that I can only connect ONE hard drive to IDE3, the raid controller. THis doesn't make sense to me--by definition a RAID controller must support 2 or more hard drives. Is IDE3 a standard IDE connection and RAID is only via serial ATA?

wonkanoby is right. he and i had this conversation a few days ago. in addition, i called msi last night and confirmed it. if you have 2 IDE drives that you want to RAID on this board, then you can hook one of the drives into IDE3, but you must use an SATA-to-IDE converter for the other drive (and hook it into one of the SATA ports).
i wish they would have clarified that a little more in the product description page on MSI's website. but it's a super board! very easy to set up.

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.
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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.
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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

MSI 845E Max2-BLR raid controller...

I've got the upper named motherboard and a big problem with the onboard raid controller. I have 2 HDDs on raid 0. I can't install linux on it. The first thing I made, was that I mailed Promise. They told me, the fault is that on the boards is only a LITE Version. Is there a way, that I can flash it to a normal controller, or am I hopeless lost???
Cya mike

you mean on an ide each for raid 0,not the same ide
lite raid purley means its got less features than full blown version on seperate card,so their comment makes no sense
ask if its a linux thing here
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/

Disk Priority Problem with Raid

I have MSI K8N Diamond (Bios version: 1.9)
Here's my problem:
I've got total 4 hard disks. Those are plugged to sata ports
(not to silicon ones, 2 silicon ports are free) also i got no hdd on ide, just a dvd burner
I've planned to create a raid0 array from my WD drives 36x2 with Nvidia raid:
RAID0
1. WD Raptor SATA 36GB
2. WD Raptor SATA 36GB
NONRAID SATA
3. Seagate SATA 300GB
4. Seagate SATA 300GB
Here are the steps that i followed:
1. Enabled nvraid from bios, (just enabled the 2 drives which i'm gonna strip)
2. Set hard disk priority to
1>NVRAID
2>SEAGATE
3>SEAGATE
3. Created raid0 and hooked my both WD drives (f10)
Everything is fine, windows starts to install. Problem just begins after this.
After windows licence agreement (f8) where u choose the disk to install windows, setup tries to install windows on E:
C: Seagate
D: Seagate
E: My NVRAID Stripe => why the hell is it E???
But I set my hdd priority in bios and set the NVRAID first priority as i mentioned earlier.
Why is this priority setting been ignored?
The only workaround i found is removing the Seagate drives physically, then install windows on nvraid as C:
why the hell i must remove my drives everytime i install windows, is there a proper way?
P.S. Same thing happened with silicon raid, so i think this is not a nvraid issue

Halloween,
You may very well be correct, I use an add-in High Point RAID Controller in most of my systems, as you can see in my signature and have one problem from the very start.
When I have the High Point RAID Controller Plugged in, it does not matter which PCI-Express slot I use and the motherboards secondary RAID Controller is Enabled in BIOS the system while not boot. This happens with my K8N Neo4 Platinum and my Diamond Plus motherboards. They have made changes to the BIOS on the Diamond Plus, but the K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboards are still that way and I can not use the Silicon Image RAID Controller on those MB’s yet and its been over four months now. You my have uncover another bug in the BIOS, on these same lines.
You really should get the problem on record with them. Have you used their new nZone trouble reporting system yet. It a lot easier to use than the e-mail help request system. Here is the link to the web site
http://support.msi.com.tw/techSptlogin.php and they have been fixing problem through this system. I have gotten two BIOS fixes so far and they keep list of your request on hand with there current status so you just check every day and answer what questions they have or download and test a fix, which some times and some times do not work. Your respond to the fix or questions and the normally respond within one three days one-way or another. I like it because I can give them a blast on any request I have not heard from them on in a reasonable length of time and a complete transcript of the your messages to and from them is right there for you to refer to if you need it.
Roger
When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings. It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it.

MSI Super RAID 2 Triple mSATA Adapter Board

I bought the MSI GT70 2PE Dominator Pro 890 laptop.
Its the basic one with only 12gb ram and 1x 1tb hhd. It was $1800 vs the $2100 of the one that came with 16gb ram and a 128gb msata (includes raid board though)
I bought this one, as I already have a 1tb Samsung evo 2.5"ssd. And 2x8gb corsair vengeance ram sticks. Plus the 128gb board is rather small amount of memory, I use laptop for 3d animation and 4k video editing. 128gb would maybe fit a single project. So $300 difference for a $116 raid board, $40 4gb ram stick, and $55 for 128gb msata. I don't need/want the 4gb ram or the 128gb msata, so it would've meant paying $300 for a $116 msata raid board.
I have a raid nas server for my main editing, but when im on the go I want more storage.
I found this MSI Super RAID 2 Triple mSATA Adapter Board (supports 3 mSATA SSDs) 607-16F42-01S, its sold by MSI
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Triple-Adapter-supports-607-16F42-01S/dp/B00JDTUZUE
This would work right? I'm fairly certain. I would just need a bios update for the raid controller to be enabled, when I go to msi and drivers for my laptop theres always 2, one for raid setup and one without.
My main question is, this board accepts 3x msata, and msi brags about this and its 1500mbps capability. But I want to know if I could use this board and not use raid. Just have 3x msata as 3 separate drives. Then dump in 3x 1tb Samsung evo msata's. And if I can, would this controller allow all separate 500-550mbps transfer, or would it limit the individual transfer rates?

I was thinking that since super raid 2 or whatever its called, fully allows all three msata drives to operate with full bandwidth while theyre in raid, hence the 1500mbps read 1000-1100 write speeds, that all sata connections are indeed full sata 3 and with/without raid would still allow full bandwidth speeds. I guess im just curious about the controller itself, being able to hand 3 separate feeds and providing optimum bandwidth to each individual drive.
My 'ideal' plans, are 1tb Samsung evo msata x3 (though the crucial m500 480gb msata on sale for $200 are quite tempting), and my 1tb Samsung evo 2.5". I'd have OS on one msata, source files on another, and output files on the third msata, with temp file/cache/scratch disk being the 2.5" drive.
Either that, or pick up the last 8gb ram stick needed to max out ram at 32gb, make a 12ish gb ram disk for scratch disk. Then use the 2.5" for files and games and such.

Shopping For A RAID Controller

I have seen the Areca brand name on here many times, so I assume they are the best for what we do. But, there are so many models that I have no idea what to look for. I probably won't ever have more than 4 or 6 storage drives plus an SSD system drive. Maybe a couple of external drives and an NAS.
If I have Windows 7 64-bit
i7-2600k processor
ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard
32 GB RAM 1600
GeForce GTX 580 Amp! from Zotac
AX850 PSU from Corsair
Every component is reasonably fast, bu I am sick of the senseless limitations of this mootherboard. My drives are aging so they need to be replaced.
Which specs are important for video editing? Which brand and models are most popular and shoould I wait for some new release?
Another thought - If a RAID controller is over $400 US, Is it more cost-effective to upgrade to a more capable motherboard/processor with all the ports I need?

What to look for
Brand
Areca or LSI
Ports
8 or more
Card
PCIe-3.0 8x
Cache
512 MB or more
Multi-lane
SFF-8087/8088
Examples
Areca ARC-1882 series or LSI MegaRAID 9285
Warning: You have to realize that on your motherboard adding a dedicated raid controller will entail that your video card will throttle down from PCIe-16x to PCIe-8x mode, resulting in a 10 - 15% performance penalty, due to limitations of the chipset. A dedicated raid controller, especially with around 6 disks always outperforms an on-board raid by a wide margin. To see some benchmark results, look here: Reflections
To see what meets your requirements, also consider the raid level you want to use. If raid3 or raid30, then LSI is out. You can check out what controllers are popular here: Detailed Results but you have to be registered and logged in to access the page.

K8N master2-far doesn't detect Areca 1220 raid controller

Today i purchased the last components for my system. Everything works perfectly except for my Areca 1220 8x pci-e raid controller. As i feared the controller is nowhere to be seen, not in the bios, not in windows. I already had bios version v1.10 but flashed the bios version on the msi site anyway. Nothing changed. On the msi site under "QVL" i see my Areca at the bottom of the list. Does that mean that this MB can work with this controller? What must i do to make it work? I think i have to see it at least in the bios!
Your help is appreciated. Now 5x 300 GB of storage is doing nothing.

Quote from: Bas on 10-November-05, 20:30:00
Maybe you need to update the cards firmware.
I already looked into that matter and found out that the only way to upgrade the firmware or bios is to use their http tool McRAID Storage Manager. This of course is done in windows. Now windows doesn't see my Areca 1200 and so McRAID doesn't see it either. I can't update my Areca.
This problem is well known by the motherboard manufacturers. Let me quote something from the Areca site:
Q10150407 - Is there any socket 939 motherboards that work with your model ARC-1210 raid controller? In a SLI board I would use one 16x slot for Graphics card.
Our PCIe ARC-12xx series controller uses Intel IOP332/333 processor. The Intel high performance IOP (IOP331/332/333) has integrated the bridge chip in the controller. But the original NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset BIOS has the problem after Bridge IRQ routing. All controllers use Intel new IOP 332/333, such as Areca, Intel, and LSI have the same IRQ routing problem. Those NVIDIA 939 M/Bs can be worked in the Windows environment. Due to the Windows system takes over the BIOS job, and Linux & FreeBSD need to use the M/B BIOS, so it has problem with our PCIe controller.
Currently, DFI, Ausu, MSI and Gigabyte have BIOS to solve the problem. If you have problem in this kind of mainboard, please try to manufacture latest BIOS.
We have tested DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI & ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, and Asus A8N-SLI Premium. It works very well with our firmware 1.38 and newest mainboard BIOS. Try to swap the graphic and our controller, if you find some warm boot problem in the Asus A8N-SLI Premium.
I still think i need an updated bios for the k8n master2-far (ms-9620). The fact remains that there are problems reported with every SLI motherboard. I knew this already from the socket 939 platforms. I was sceptical about the k8n master2-far but thought that a server MB should have no problems. I did ask a question about this however at the shop where i bought this MB. I even found an reply from you to another user who had similar concerns about the Areca controllers and an SLI MB. You said that it should not be a problem. Even so i always kept the possibily open that this problem can happen. And here i am
Thanks for your help. More input is always appreciated as i am still waiting for an answer from MSI in the Netherlands about this problem. Right now my server is doing nothing. I hope my raid controller will work very soon.

RAID CONTROLLER help

I need major aisstance, in my windows days, if I had a raid controller, all I had to do was hit 56 and load the drivers for the raird array and move forward. Now I havr 4 1.5tb sata drives that I want to put into raid 0+1, I want to them boot the dvd media and use the sytem restore from my time machine drive to my new array., Problem is, the install software WONt see the raid device. I have tried a highpoint 1810, a 2130, a 2300 (I think, and they all work fine once I have a installed os on another sata disk and then format the raid, aind install the driver. I need the drievers to se raid froim the initial boot. Any wegesttions, getting real sick o this,

man, half asleep when writing that, great English dude..
Figured it out, card just not supported in leo

Raid controller disappears from BIOS

Hi,
I got a strange problem: everytime I pull out the power cord from the computer-the Raid controller disappers from Bios and of course the comp. cant find the HDD`s.
After some time I found out how to get it work again,
I have to pull out the IDE cable and power cable from the HDD and put it back again. Then the Fast Track Controller comes up again in BIOS.
Any one has an idea what that could be?
I use The Promise Fast Trak 100 Raid driver.
Thanks for reply.

Quote
Originally posted by Bas
Hi,
You should use the MSI raid drivers....
Also, check the jumper on your harddisk and the way the cables are connected, the blue connector should be on the raid controller...
What harddisks do you use?
Hi Bas,
Thanks for reply, I use 2x IBM 60GXP, 60GB HDD.
My drivers are from MSI.
Every thing worked fine almost 1 year, I did not change anything.
First I thougt maybe it could be a battery the voltage is 3.41V as it was when I bought the mobo.

Promise RAID controller & WinXP - 845 ultra

I finally got around to connected a couple of drives to the Promise Fasttrack 133 RAID controller.
When I go into windows.. It finds the controller..
So if I look in Device Manager, I do see the Promise MBFasttrak 133 Lite..
But under DISK DRIVES, the Promise 2+0 stripe /raid0 scsi device shows up as an unknown, and if I try to update the drivers.. nothing ever changes..
The drive(s) does work, more of a comsmetic issue?
Thank you,
Fred R

Some of the suggestions I don't understand quite well. Please could you explain further:
> remove the other two drives leaving the raid pair
> and cd only
>
> put raid 2nd in boot order
What do you mean with that?
> reboot press the key you need to get in to raid bios
> create the array and make it bootable
array is already created (Note: there is important data on it, can't recreate it! Only Segate 80GB is free and empty)
I don't want to boot from raid.
>
> now boot to cd to install,right at beginning it will say
> press f6 to install mass storage drive you need the
> driver on floppy to install it
I already tried the XP-Install routine to specify additional mass storage drivers. (Note: 1 single 80GB Drive was attached) Which are the suitable ones? As mentioned I tried the following:
1. Attached floppy 'Fasttrack family drivers'
Result: Message: Driver is for Win2k only. Not a single Harddrive shows for installing XP.
2. Attached Floppy (Promise Ultra 100 lite, 256 only)
Result: Driver is for Win2k only. Installation procedure hangs.
3. Driver from MSI-Site for pdc20265. Same as 2.
4. Extracting via4in1 drivers and putting WinXPIDE drivers on floppy:
Result: Installation routine doesn't recoginze drivers on floppy.
> rest should be the same as normal
>
> this should be similar as well
>
> http://www.amdforums.com/showindex.php?s=&threadid=146384
Which is the right driver for WinXP to specify for mass storage device at WinXP installation?

Disk on MSI mobo RAID controller to another MSI mobo

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