GT683: swapping RAID0 HD config for non-RAID/AHCI SSD boot drive

A question re: MSI skus which come with 2x HDs in RAID0 config. My system (GT683DXR-603US sku) came with 2x 500GB HDs (WD5000BEKT) in RAID0 config.
First thing I did was to replace this with a Crucial M4 256GB ssd, though prior to this I took an image of the stock system (prior to even booting it up the first time) and restored said image onto the SSD.
The first time I booted off the SSD (no other HD in the unit, as I pulled both of the WD 500GB out to try the SSD alone), I went into the BIOS and changed the SATA config from RAID to AHCI. But Win boot cycle almost immediately resulted in a blue screen. I then changed SATA config from AHCI to IDE, w/the same boot result. Finally, set the BIOS config back to the original RAID, and Win7 booted fine.
Upon confirming SSD Win7 boot and testing operation successfully, I pulled the SSD, place the 2x 500GB HDs back in the system, just long enough to break the RAID 0 array.
Replaced the SSD in the primary bay, and left one of the 500GB HDs in the 2nd bay, and that's how I'm using the system now: Crucial M4 SSD boot drive, WD Scorpio 500GB data drive ... with the BIOS SATA config set to RAID mode.
So the system is working now, but question is - should I pursue trying to change the BIOS setting from RAID to AHCI mode? I'm thinking that in order to get the SATA 6Gbps performance out of the Crucial M4, the Intel SATA config needs to be set to AHCI ... yet apparently I first need to modify the Win7 config (the SATA driver, perhaps?), before I can modify the BIOS sata config?
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

bump ... any thoughts? I'm thinking to leave my sysetm in RAID mode, as from what I've read recently Intel storage mgr supports TRIM in RAID mode as well as AHCI.

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1. If you are installing the operating system on a system
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3. The 'Uninstallation Warning' window appears. Click on
the Next button to continue.
4. The 'Software License Agreement' window appears. If you
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Click on the Next button to continue.
6. The 'Select Program Folder' window appears. Click on
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without a prompt to restart the system, click the Finish
button and proceed to step 8. If it is shown with a
prompt to restart the system, click 'Yes, I want to
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http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=1809
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Well I went for it, RAID that is. I borrowed a 300GB SATA II Seagate Barracuda from work to backup to and got started. I shall layout how I did it for those having trouble.
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I copied all that data I wanted to extra drive and made a boot floppy and copied the files from the 975xPUE CD for the Intel RAID controller.
CDROM:\IDE\Intel\ICH7R\Floppy\32
Now I shut down my system, removed the bachup drive and entered the bios.
*I set back all my setting to default, no overclock.
*Integrated peripherals/Onboard JMB361 mode: Disabled JMicron controller
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80GB+250GB=152GB RAID 0 (I have about 200GB backed up, so I going to have to get another drive, SATA II 300 maybe)
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Benchmarking: This is the best bit!
Maxtor Diamond 80GB SATA II and 250GB SATA I = 150GB Logical RAID 0 test with HDTach 3, 8mb test:
Burst Speed : 320.9 mb/s
Average Read : 120.3 mb/s
Now that is some difference from IDE enhanced so well worth the effort!
IDE: Burst Speed: 215.3mb/s
Average Read: 59.0mb/s
Now I also tested the Seagate 300GB SATA II drive which is connected to the JMicron controller in IDE mode and the results show that the JMicron does not support SATA II drives but maxes out SATA I: so even if I do buy and extra drive will I be able to add it to the RAID 0 or will I be stuck with SATA I speeds on the JMicrom controller. No doubt I will soon find out.
Seagate: Burst Speed: 150.5 mb/s
Average Read: 50.5 mb/s
Thanks for the tip Insomniac34
Gaucho

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I just purchased a 115GB SSD that I want to use as the boot drive in my Mac Pro running OS 10.6.8. I've read several articles about how to set this up but none seem to be working for me. On the SSD boot drive I want only the essentials: OS, Home Folder, Apps. Everything else (docs, downloads, music, photos, movies, etc.) needs to go on my 1TB storage HD. The problem I'm having using Carbon Cloner and Super Duper to copy the OS, HF and apps to the SSD is they're copying too much data, filling up the SSD with non-essentials (there should only be about 90GB of data being copied but much more seems to be transferred). I can't seem to lean-down what's being moved. Would doing a new install with the Snow Leopard DVD and then copying over only the essential files/folders with Migration Assistant be better, more specific?
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Hello,
Can I use IDE3 to support a non-RAID drive? If so, how do I set this up.
IDE1 has two 40 GB drives
IDE2 has CD-RW and DVD
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Anyone use RAID as their boot drive ?

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Today, I think SSD is best bet or a pair 60GB, or WD 10K 600GB VelociRaptor, etc.
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So in effect, lets just say your SSD drive fails. As you are currently setup, can you boot from your secondary drive to your backed up OSX, or do you have to have restore that backup image to a new hard drive?
My whole rational of keeping the home dir separate (disk) from the boot dir is that I can switch among any number of boot drives any time I want to. For example, as a hypothetical case*, I use 10.6.5, and I want to update to 10.6.6, 10.6.7, or 10.6.8, I just do it to my ssd. Now I can still boot from my 10.6.5 backup, say for the sake of comparison to some weird behavior I see on the update, without a blink of the eye. I'm still using my same (common) home dir because it is not involved with the update. If I want to go "back" I can restore the ssd from my 10.6.5 backup.
Of course I would actually do it the other way and boot and update from the backup leaving the ssd alone (don't want to write to it any more than I have to). Only if I was satisfied with the new OS on the backup would I then update my ssd.
The point of all this is keeping the home dir off the boot dir allows you to "flit", "jump", switch, whatever, to different OSs (or backups of the same OS) at will. Your home dir is none the wiser unless the OS dramatically changes or screws things up (so that's why this technique may or may not work across major OS revisions -- Snow Leopard to Lion for example, but its great with a single OS sequence).
While everyone always debates the pros and cons of keeping the home dir separate from the boot dir, what always seems to get lost or not mentioned is the benefit of being able to switch among the OSs when they are separate.
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bless --folder /Volumes/srvosx/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --setboot --verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Mount point for /Volumes/srvosx/System/Library/CoreServices is /Volumes/srvosx
Common mount point of '/Volumes/srvosx/System/Library/CoreServices' and '' is /Volumes/srvosx
GPT detected
Booter partition required at index 3
System partition found
Booter partition found
Returning booter information dictionary:
<CFBasicHash 0x100601210 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{type = mutable dict, count = 3,
entries =>
0 : <CFString 0x100019a60 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "System Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x100600c90 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x1006016a0 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "disk2s1"}
1 : <CFString 0x10001a2c0 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "Data Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x1006012d0 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x100601830 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "disk2s2"}
2 : <CFString 0x100019a20 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = <CFArray 0x100601280 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (
0 : <CFString 0x7fff702ae5b0 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{contents = "disk2s3"}
Substituting booter disk2s3
I can get it to boot just fine by manually populating the Boot OS X partitions, but this is a pain.
I have tried to figure out what is going on from the bless source code at
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/bless/bless-71.1/libbless/RAID/BLGetRAIDB ootDataForDevice.c
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Hi all,
First of all, my English is bad and I hope I can explain it what my problem is. Secondly, I need your expert help with my problem right now.
I'll just layout some hardware information and some history before I start. Currently, my motherboard has 3 hdd controllers which are:
1) Intel - 6 ports --> contains 2 sets of RAID drives = 2 x 60gb SSD (boot drive) and 2 x 500gb HDD (data drive) both in RAID 0
2) Jmicron - 2 ports --> 1 port is used by the DVDROM
3) Marvell - 2 ports --> I don't use these ports as they are slow and are so bad - currently disabled in BIOS
HISTORY: Before, my 2 x 60gb SSDs (RAID 0) contained Arch 64 + Windows 7 64 with Grub as the main bootloader. I remembered having a hard time setting up intel fakeraid with Arch linux + Win7 dual boot before, but fortunately, with your help, I found the solution and I've been using it ever since until today.
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After some research, I tried plugging the SSD boot drive into the JMicron controlled blue SATA 7 connector. It works. The 2 WD 640's are in the South Bridge controlled SATA 1-6 connectors (3 & 4). Windows sees the drives with On-Chip ATA Devices set to AHCI. I can setup the 640's with On-Chip ATA Devices set to RAID and the BIOS sees them during boot up, but Windows can't. I did install the RAID drivers as specified in the manual Appendix B.
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K8N Diamond Plus SiI 3132 WinXP x64 non-RAID drivers?

Hi
I'm looking for non-RAID drivers for the SiI 3132 on my K8N Diamond Plus for WinXP x64 (I managed to fine the x32 ones and they work fine so I know it's not the drives or the moboard. I tried the drivers on MSI's website.
I've searched around the forum and followed the leads onto planetamd64 and the Asus website for them, but to no avail.
To be precise, I have selected non-RAID in the BIOS, and the drives to show up on on the POST screen, but do not appear in Win 64; there is the classic exclamation mark in the device manager for a 'Mass Storage Device'. I don't want to concatenate the drives in RAID mode, so I did not try booting with that selected in the BIOS lest it destroy the stuff I have on them.
[I miss the simple JBOD option in the 3114...]
Any help gratefully appreciated!
thx
bn

Hi all,
I solved the problem.
You won't find the drivers under the drivers section of SiI's website but you will in the Knowledge Base. Look under Serial ATA | COntrollers | SiI3132, you'll find article 11043 'SATA 64 bit Windows IDE driver - released' dated 8/19/05. Click under that and you'll find a file 3132_win64_idrv_1004_logo.zip. It's what you need.
Hope this helps someone.
bn

How to back up raid drv that's in non-raid config?

I had planned to use one sata drive as my main drive, the second sata drive for video streaming, and my pata drive on IDE3 to store backup images of my main sata drv as well as bkup images of other computers on my network. But after reading some of the posts here it looks like none of the imaging programs will work even if I'm not using a stripe or a mirror config. (I have drive Image 2002, DI 7, and ghost 2003)
I'm not crazy about mirroring the 2 sata drvs because a mirror will duplicate a messed up hd (due to a misbehaving installed game, spyware, etc.) just as quickly as a perfectly fuctioning drv. I would like to be able to create a reliable restorable image of my main drv when it is the way I want it. Then when my main drv does get messed up (which has happened to me before) I can restore my good bkup and go from there.
I also like the performance advantage of a striped array, but once again how do I make a resorable backup?
Does anyone have any ideas or at least a comprise that will let me use my 3 raid connections and be able to back up. I only have one IDE connection left (besides the IDE3 that I'd like to use).

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S20 *new* RAID config for retail Windows 7 install...questions

I’ve recently ordered a S20 and I have a few questions about my situation/configuration, if anyone has the knowledge and time, I'd really appreciate it.
I’ve configured the workstation to be shipped without an installed OS, a single SATA hard drive, and no optical drive. I have a new retail copy of Windows 7 Professional that I will install, two Seagate 1TB SATA hard drives that I will install in RAID1 configuration, and a new DVD multi-recorder ready to install. The drive that comes with the workstation will be used as well, but not as the boot drive. I wish to boot off of a partition on the RAID1 set.
I’ve looked into the hardware/user guides for as much information as I could find, but I’m not clear, and thus concerned, as to what I will need to do to get RAID setup with a boot partition and install Windows.
I see that there are three SATA ports for hard drives on the main board.
1) Can RAID be configured using ANY combination of these ports, and is the unused port still available for normal SATA drive hosting?
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I am now familiar with the BIOS RAID configuration utility from reading the guides.
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For instance, can I provide the driver during installation via the Windows 7 setup?
I understand that there are also two SATA ports for optical drives on a separate controller (for five SATA ports total).
3) If I attach my DVD drive to one of the SATA ports intended for optical devices, will the system see it as a bootable device?
I need to make my DVD drive a boot device in order to install windows, so I'm hoping that the system will see it that way. I also hope that the SATA ports are labeled on the main board! (Optical 0, 1 / Disk 0, 1, 2) ???
If anyone has the time to help me with these three questions I think I will be more at ease. I worry about going off the path and ordering a blank machine, but I am adamant about a non-OEM OS.
BTW, I am moving to the S20 from a five year old IntelliStation M Pro which is the best machine I've owned so far. I also keep a ThinkPad X61 at my side. Really looking forward to the new workstation!
Cheers!
Matt
www.mattloweryphotography.com

erik, thank you so much.
I was thrown off by the Marvell driver in the S20 download page, I think. Now I'm ready to go.
Come on Lenovo...
Matt
www.mattloweryphotography.com

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"lilian zhu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi,
i am having a admin server running on port 7001 for servlet1 and managed
server
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