Intel ICH5R or Promise 378 as S-ATA HDD controller?

Which one is better and faster choice? My pc configuration is shown in my signature.
Which of the controllers will give me better performance?
Thanks in advance...

hey guys, I have a theory.
Since Promise 378 s running on PCI bus, while ICH5R SATA has its 100MHz clock locked and independent of overclocking, I am interested to know whether overclocking the PCI bus and hence increase the performance of Promise 378 SATA RAID devices would show any improvement over the ICH5R? ATA100 or ATA133 doesn't make much difference as our HDD nowadays are still running quite slow.

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Intel Ich5r -- Promise Controller

PROBLEM -
I have 2 SATA drives under the Intel ICH5R controller and one extra SATA drive running in slot 3 that is eing controlled by the probise controller. The goal is to have all drives under one controller, Intel or Promise. At first i wanted to have them all under the ICH5R controller but have found this doesnt work. Now i am wanting to know if it is possible to have all 3 drives running under the promise controller and if so then is it possible to simply transfer the current raid setup from the intel to the promise without having to start from fresh.

The purpose was not putting the 3rd drive intro raid but to have that drive run independently as its own entity under the same controller to eliminate loading up 2 controllers as it adds time to load up and also to resources.. Thats what im trying to reduce as this system takes a long time to load.

HELP! INTEL ICH5R Controller/S-ATA - "No RAID"

Hi to all who gave me advice for setting up two S-ATA drives on the Intel ICH5R controller with "NO" RAID. I really need some help.
Well, I got my two "NEW" S-ATA drives this afternoon and after following the advice given by several users in this thread, I'm having ptoblems trying to install Windows XP and I'm getting messages like "missing operating system", "Invalid system disk, (when XP CD is in CD drive) replace the disk and press any key", so I need some help please.
Ok, I setup the BIOS settings in Integrated Perpherals/On-Chip IDE Configuration to:
Mode: NATIVE
ATA Configuration: S-ATA Only
Keep S-ATA Enabled: YES
Keep P-ATA Enabled: YES
P-ATA Channel Selection: BOTH
Configure S-ATA as RAID: NO
BTW, given that I will have two Seagate S-ATA drives on SER1 & SER2 and one P-ATA drive (LG CDRW) on IDE1 as Master and the other P-ATA drive (LG DVD) on IDE2 as Master, I was just wondering if the "other options" in "On-Chip IDE Configuration" may be causing my problems and need to be altered and if so, what to?
I.e. "Combined Mode Option" and S-ATA Ports Definition"
I then switched off the computer and connected my two Seagate S-ATA drives
(ST380013AS 7200.7 80GB on SER1 & ST3120026AS 7200.7 120GB on SER2).
I turned on computer and drives were shown on POST screen as "Third IDE Master (80GB) and 4th IDE Master (120GB). I then entered BIOS to check if they were shown and they were and I selected the "ST380013AS 7200.7 80GB drive" as my 3rd boot device with the CD as my first boot device and the floppy as my second.
BOTH drives were already set to "AUTO", but the label on the physical drives states that you should choose "AUTO" and enable "LARGE BLOCK ADDRESSING (LBA), but I could not see an option for this. I did not get any software with the disk but the drive label states that you chould use "Disc Wizard" but I did not have this so I used an updated Boot Floppy that works with drives up to 137GB. I FDISK'd the 80GB drive and formatted it to FAT32 (although I would not normally do this because XP setup always finds my new partitioned ATA133 drives and starts setup and then formats it).
Note: During format, the drive was shown as "Formatting 10,780.56M" and for an 80GB drive, this did not seem right but after formatting, it showed as 76,297,91MB total disk space. FDISK showed the drive as 76,317MBytes.
Also in the BIOS, the 80GB drive is shown with "CYLINDERS:38309", "HEADS:16", SECTORS:255", MAXIMUM CAPACITY:80GB and "WRITE PRECOMPENSATION:(nothing was shown for this - what is this and should there be a reading for it)?
I then restarted the computer with the XP CD in the Master CD drive and the cd was found and showed "Press any key to continue......" but this was quickly followed by "Invalid System Disk - Replace the disk and press any key".
I tried this many times but always get the same message. Can anyone who has setup S-ATA drives on ICH5R with "no RAID" and then installed a fresh copy of XP, please help, or anyone who can help with this, I would be very grateful.
Regards
Brave01Heart

Hi
Ok, I have some more information regarding the Intel ICH5R Controller and S-ATA drives.
I tried your suggestions of " Both SATA+PATA in "On-Chip IDE Config"...." and also a few others, but it made no difference and I still got "invalid disk message". Some changes like "P-ATA only" made my CDRW/DVD drives not show up during POST or in the BIOS or My Computer.
I then used the original advice I was given:
Mode: NATIVE
ATA Configuration: S-ATA Only
Keep S-ATA Enabled: YES
Keep P-ATA Enabled: YES
P-ATA Channel Selection: BOTH
Configure S-ATA as RAID: NO
but also changed "Combined Mode Option" to "S-ATA 1st Channel and the "S-ATA Ports Definition" to P0-1st. /P1-2nd. I then inserted the XP CD and restarted the computer and this time XP installation went ahead without any 'invalid disk' messages and XP was installed without problems but I have noticed a few weird things which I would like some help with please, especially Q1:
Q1: During POST, both my S-ATA drives which are on SER1 & SER2, were shown as the Third and Fourth IDE Masters and as UDMA 5. Surely this can't be correct?
I know ATA133 is UDMA 6 and the S-ATA drives are supposed to run at 150Mb/sec but I don't know if there is a standard for that speed at the moment but it should not be shown as UDMA 5 on POST and also in Device Manager? At the very least it should be UDMA 6?
Q2: In Device Manager/IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, it shows:
Primary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 5 (S-ATA 80GB Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicale
Primary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Secondary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 5 (S-ATA 120GB Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Secondary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 2 (LG CDRW Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 2 (LG DVD Drive)
??Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller?
??Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller?
?? After installing the Intel .INF Update, these entries changed to "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers". With my two previous ATA133 drives installed in the same computer, there was only one "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers" in Device Manager, so with the S-ATA drives installed, why are there now two entries in Device Manager?
Q3: In "My Computer", the total capacity of my Seagate S-ATA 80GB drive is shown as 74.5GB (80,015,491,072 Bytes). Iknow that the CMOS value is considerably less that the purchased disk size, but where has the other 4.5GB gone?
Q4: What is the purpose of the second "Primary IDE Channel" entry in Device Manager?
Regards
Brave01Heart

Promise 378 SATA Raid question

Can someone tell me if my SATA drives are setup correctly given the details below? The only driver that works is the FastTrak 378 (not the SATA 378 driver). I want to make sure I am taking full advantage of my SATA drives. In the Promise setup it shows them operating as "Mode U5". What is this?
Any help appreciated.
My Drive COnfiguration is as follows:
SATA Drives are on SATA3 & SATA4 (Promise 378 Controller)
(as RAID 0 for performance)
Primary IDE Master - Sony DVD/RW
Primary IDE Slave - not used
Secondary IDE Master - ASUS DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - ATA 133 Drive bay (Empty)
3rd IDE Master&Slave - not used
On Board Promise settings
FastTrak 378 BIOS Ver 1.00.0.27
2+0 Stripe - Functional
HIT CTRL+F for setup and
(in the setup it shows RAID 0 Drive Array as Mode U5)
Bios Settings
Boot Device Priority
1 - Floppy
2 - ASUS DVD ROM
3 - BBS-0(RAID):FT 378 Ary 1
On Board Promise IDE - As RAID
On Chip ATA's Operation Mode - Legacy Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - no
* PATA Keep enabled - no
PATA channel selection - both
* Combined Mode Option - PATA First Channel
* SATA Ports Definition - P0-3rd/P1-4th
* Configure SATA as Raid - no
(where * is greyed out)
Bios sees both DVD ROM & Sony DVD/RW
Boot to CDROM
Start Windows 2000 install
F6
"S"
load Promise FastTrak 378 Controller
Windows 2000 setup continues...

Everything looks good to me. Like Danny said though, you will need to change Bios to "Native Mode" for the Intel controller if you ever intend to use the Serial connectors. If not you're fine.
Also it's not clear from your post if you understand that you are using the 2 SATA drives as a Raid array. This gives you better drive performance but increases the chance of losing data. MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.
The Promise SATA drivers are for using the Serial1&2, IDE3 connectors with single/separate drives where Raid arrays are not used.

ICH5R or Promise for Raid-0 ?

Greetings:
I just ordered 2 10k RPM Raptor S-ATA Drives from newegg, they should arrive shortly. I plan to configure my system with them as Raid-0 for increased performance, I just read the "Raid Setup Guide 865/875 LSR/FIS2R Rev 1.01" by Vango and it seems that my Mobo can be configured as Raid-0 with either the Intel ICH5R Controller or the promise controller.
Which one or the 2 controllers should I use? is there a performance difference with any them? any isssues, dangers or limitation with any of them?
I plan to intall my system as follows
Raid-0 (2 WD Raptor S-ATA Drives)= To boot/run windows and programs.
WD-80GB Drive (paralel) = For general storage
WD-40GB Drive (paralel) = For general storage
DVD-CdR Drive (paralel)
Which controller should I use for each drive for the best performance?
Thanks in Advance
-Andres Tinoco

I used to run Promise RAID on 875 board, but just for storage. it worked ok. My girlfried started bitching and whining about new pc so I had to give her 875, and i got myself 865pe. on 875 i installed raptors (sata 120g in raid+0 on intel chipset) It rocks!!!!! boot up speed used to be 35 sec. from push of a button till descktop load, before she put all kind of junk on her pc. On my 865 i installed two barracudas, on the same intell controller, I dont have promise chip on this board. I love the living hell out of it. Lock and Load!!!!
Couple suggestions though. Important: when you just started putting your pc together dont connect storage drives. Connect only drives you intend to use as C:
In yor case twin 'cudas. Otherwise windows might write some of the files on IDEE drive and you will not have a complete raid. I had to reinstall windows again. Second suggestion: use windows Professional edition. Home sucks, as far as raid performance goes, lockes frezes reboots. I tried 3 versions of Professional edition 1-legit and 2-pirate copies, and finally setteled on pirate xp pro. One of the pirate versions refused to install intel raid drivers.
Third: DO NOT USE NORTON. PERIOD. I tried professional system works, it freezes the system, makes it run in 400X600, in 6 colours. It looks like norton refuses to recognize and understan concept of two hard drives in a raid array.
Good luck.

RAID 0+1 using Promise 378 Controller

I'm having trouble installing two SATA drives in my system and the problem is driving me nuts
I have two existing PATA drives on the Promise controller configured as a RAID0 array, which is working fine with XP SP2. I want to add the two SATA drives (Seagate Barracuda 200Gb SATAs) to the array and configure it to sripe across like drives and mirror across the dissimilar drives. So the two PATA drives are striped and that striped array is mirrored across to the striped pair of SATA drives.
The manuals all state that it's possible to configure the promise controller for 0+1 (which is what I think I need, but when I power up the PC with the SATA drives connected to SER3 & 4, the promise controller doesn't recognise them when configured in bios "as raid". It sees the drives when the controller is configured "as sata", but then the raid bios is bypassed at POST and obviously the boot doesn't happen.
So my question is, am I missing something with the Promise Controller setup, or does the bios version I have not support Raid 0+1. I guess I need an option that says "as sata with raid", which isn't there. Which BIOS version do I need to do this? or is it something else?
Am I being dumb or do I have to delete everything and start again using the intel ICH5R controller?
The two recordable drives are connected as primaries on the two non-raid IDE controllers.
I'm new here, so any help anyone can lend a hand would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Tony

Hi Danny,
Yes, I did read it, but it did not address my particular situation - i.e. all four drives connected to the promise controller. The bits that do seemed to be saying "look at the manual", which isn't helping me. Last night, I updated the mainboard bios to 2.4, which didn't make any difference, so I'm still stuck.
Thanks for taking the time to reply
Tony

Promise 378 RAID controller wierdness

Motherboard: MS-6728 865PE Neo2
Main BIOS: AMI v2.5 29th Sep 2004
Promise 378 BIOS: v1.00.0.27
Disks connected to promise S-ATA RAID connectors: 2 x Seagate ST2500630 500 Gb SATA2
Serious instability in Promise 378 raid. Over a few cold reboots, can get each of the following in the BIOS screen, with no way of predicting which:
RAID OK and functional
Channel 1 fail array critical
Channel 2 fail array critical
I have replaced SATA leads, swapped the disk connectors around, and beefed up the power supply to 850 Watts, but with no joy, and this is before we even get into windows.
If the array actually does identify OK and XP boots, trying to format the drive gives lots of these device timeouts in the system event log:
The device, \Device\Scsi\fasttx2k1, did not respond within the timeout period.
I have downloaded the lowlevel drive utility S/W from the Seagate website, and both drives have checked out OK when connected through the 'normal' ICH5 SATA connectors..
So I've basically I've bought 1 Tb of disk space and an 850W power supply and can't do anything with it. Are the any issuse with these BIOS versions? Any help/suggestions all gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Tony

Yep - both drives got the long version of the Seagate Disk Tools test, and both passed without a hitch. That's five hours of my life I'll never get back.
Anyway - the Promise TX2300 RAID card arrived yesterday, so I disabled the motherboard Promise in the BIOS, installed the card in a spare PCI slot (my last one!), and connected the drives. It turns out that this card also wont recognise the cards at 3 Mb/s, but they worked instantly when the drive jumper was replaced to limit them to 1.5 Mb/s. Partitioned and formatted I now have a working 2 x 500 Gb RAID 1, though I'm going to leave it a week before I move anything important onto it.... er, 'just in case'.
To summarise, the motherboard Promise and this new Promise RAID card use different silicon so their implementations could be different, but neither would talk to the drives at 3 Mb/s. I strongly suspect the Seagate drives have a SATA2 problem. I could easily be wrong of course, but I'm off to the Seagate forums now to try and pin it down.
Dufflepod.

Promise 378

Hi there, I have installed Vista home Premium on my Neo 875 mobo. It holds a intel RAID and a promise 378 controller. Everything works, but the promise controller. I have tryed several drivers included the latest I could find. the 1.0.0.39/41 driver. Vista accepts the driver, but is not finalising the installation and freezes. No error codes.
Does anybody have a driver or a workaround, that lets me install so that I can connect my SATA drive on the controller? I am not going to use it in raid, but only as sata controller.
Regards
Neo

Quote from: Neiwintro on 15-February-07, 15:23:08
Hello - I have checked the promise website, but no findings there. as I wrote, i do not use the controller as RAID. I have enabled it in bios as SATA and Vista finds the controller. When I load the driver Vista accepts it, but dont finalize the installation. I have tryed the newest driver from MSI with no luck and a driver 39/41 that others seam to have gotten to work.
I haven´t tryed the one MJ is using. But i will to night - thx.
I have a single 320 GB SATA1 disk on the controller. I worked fine when i had XP installed.
My system is as following:
2 80 GB SATA 1 disks in raid 1 on the intel controller.
a pioneer DVD burner on the first pata controller
1 80 GB PATA om the second pata controller
a 320 sata 1 on the promisecontroller
P4 3 Ghz cpu
1 Gb RAM
And I hope that I can use it until this summer. when I plan to build a new PC
Thx
Neo
I have successfully installed Vista Ultimate on 2xSATA raid 1 on intel controller for testing purpose. The Promise controller without RAID works perfectly with the driver version 1.0.0.26 (which I have used earlier) without any problem. If you need the driver, please drop me an email via emailremovedbymoderator. The driver version 1.0.0.39 has a problem in starting up.
Regards,
MJ
I removed your email address from the post to protect you from spam and such. PM the guy your address to give him the contact.
Frankenputer

Need Intel ICH5R Driver to boot in DOS.

Need to be able to access my Intel® ICH5R Chipset RAID0 in DOS to create/load GHOST image of my system. Does Intel® ICH5R Chipset have DOS drivers?

Aulex: What version of Ghost are you using? Does it use 2 floppies? and the first one is essentially a WIN98Se boot floppy? and the second one is the Ghost recovery floppy?
If so, the boot floppy usually contains about 5 or 6 universal ASPI drivers some of them are SCSI drivers. When I use drive image 5.01 to restore my system using floppies, the boot floppy loads these drivers. (If the drives are formatted NTFS, DOS won't see them at the DOS prompt.) When I put in the second floppy and run D.I. 5.01, it sees all the drives, whether they are formatted FAT32 or NTFS, including both my RAID 0 volumes, one of which uses the ICH5R. I can do a backup or restore.
The reason I don't have to load 'DOS RAID' drivers is because the onboard (Promise, HighPoint) and onchip (ICH5R) RAID controllers are fancy SCSI controllers and the universal drivers that are loaded from DOS boot floppy work.
So if your Ghost bootable floppy(s) contain these drivers, give it a try.
FYI: Drive Image 7.0 askes you for the RAID drivers (the F6 prompt, like when you install Win XP). You actually use the D.I. 7 program CD to boot, then it asks you for RAID drivers.
Let us know!!!

875P Neo FIS2R-Slow boot with Raid on Intel + Raid on Promise

Hello all.
Here is the configuration I'm trying to set up (and almost did)
SI 875P Neo FIS2R,MS-6758 BIOS v2.4
P4 2.6 GHz HT
500W 6fan total
2x1G Kit DDR 400
2x74 G WD Raptor Raid0 (Intel S1-2) Win XP inst
2x36 G WD Raptor Raid0 (Promise S3-4)
GeCube X1600Pro
DVD-RW (IDE 2 )
Win XP SP2 (All latest updates installed)
I followed the instructions as they are listed in the sticky (great job btw) and configured the 2 SATA 74G WD Raptor on Intel Raid controller(serial1&2) as Raid0 and install WindowsXP Prof sp 2 on it.
Then I configured the 2 SATA 36G WD Raptor on Promise controller(serial3&4) as Raid0 and added this Raid to the existing WindowsXP installation.
This set up is working very good once I'm logged into Windows with no problems at all.
The glitch is that I need 3 min waiting time till I see the windows loading logo.
I have all the latest drivers installed also IAA and INFs and my bios is as the default values except the changes mentioned in the sticky
Onboard Promise IDE - as Raid
ON-Chip IDE Configuration:
Native Mode
SATA Only
Keep SATA Active - Yes
Keep PATA Active - Yes
PATA Channel selection - Both
Configure SATA as Raid - Yes
I did the Win XP installation twice till now, taking care to install INFs and drivers in the right order but the result is the same...3-5 mins till I have a fully operational windows environment and after that all is running like a dream.
Now, I've searched in the forum and saw that many more people have the same problem but never read the solution to it, so if someone has ever found the way to solve this or has the same configuration please tell me how he did it. Even if someone knows that it can't be solved just drop me a line telling me so. Altough the system is running smoothly I find the 3 min waiting time unacceptable and frustrating. I've run out of ideas so please help me.
Thanks in advance

Hello Blazer and thank you for replying.
Answering one at a time...
are both raid arrays setup with the same stripe size?--> Yes Both arrays are configured at 16k stripes
do you see both the intel and the promise bios setup screens?-->Yes both screens (Intel(R) RAID... and Fast Built (tm) ...)appear almost instantly after MSI's logo screen showing my Raid arrays in Normal status. The delay starts after the Promise's screen till the Windows Loading logo screen.
how is the raid bootable drive identified in the boot from menu?-->
Boot Device Priority:
1st BBS-0 (Raid): Intel <name> (---> this is the OS drive on Intel controller)
2nd Disabled
3rd Disabled
Try other boot devices NO
I have also the option to select the the Drive on Promise which shows as BBS-1 (Raid) FT 378 Ary 1 but I have left it out cause it doesn't have the OS on it.
is the OS drive labeled as C: and seen as 200GB drive [as one] from the four drive array]--> No as it shouldn't cause these are two different Raid Arrays. The first Raid on Intel's controller with the 2x74G WD Disks indeed shows as one C: 137 G and has the OS on it. The second on Promise controller with 2x36G WD Disks also shows as one D: 70G.These are two separate Arrays with 2 disks each and they show as indented.
is network boot enabled causing a delayed boot?--> I don't quit understand what you mean. In case you mean what happens if I unplug the 2 disks from the promise controller then yes if I do that the system boots fast in the Windows even if I leave the Bios setting "configure promise as raid"!!!
My problem is similar with this post: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=69994.0
other posts that have reported the same trouble:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=94944.msg683258#msg683258
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=81901.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=66662.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=98005.0 ---> I wish it was that simple, I did it as with all other drivers
I hope that info helps you helping me.

Intel Raid1 SATA + Promise Raid1 IDE - Doesn't work! :-(

Hi,
I've been using 2 x 200GB Maxtor SATA drives on the Intel controller on an MSI 875P NEO FISR2 for months quite happily. I had a couple of 160GB IDE Maxtors lying around so i thought i'd make use of them on the Promise Controller. When i added the drivers and configured them for Raid1 all seemed fine. I formatted them in XP and started to use them. Things seemed a bit odd when i noticed that somthing seemed to be locking files after i'd copied a file over a network share to this PC using the Promise Raid1 IDE disks.
Whenever i clicked and selected or right clicked and viewed proprties for a file on this raid1 on the promise controller, if i tried to delete, amend or move the file XP would tell me that the file was in use by another person or program.
I've spent days on this and i know that no one else or another program is using this file. I can say this for sure as i totally formatted the PC and did a totally clean install of XP and created Restore Points before each driver was loaded. The problem only occured after i installed drivers for the Promise 378 controller (Driver version: 1.00.1.29
). I'm using the current ones off the MSI website (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=434&kind=1). The ones off the original CD won't even detect the promise controller. I also updated the bios to v2.4. I have nothing else installed on this PC, no other drivers or programs, its Windows XP SP1. If i install the promise drivers i get this file locking problem, if i restore prior to installing the promise drivers then everything works fine.
Has anyone ever setup a Raid1 using SATA drives on the Intel controller and a Raid1 using IDE drives on the Promise controller at the same time?
This should be possible shouldn't it?
Having lost lots of data in the past, i'm over cautious now and like to have Raid1 everything! ;-)
Thinking maybe the latest drivers from the MSI website might be buggy i tried some others that i found for the same controller but now i just get an error code 10, the device cannot be started...

Hi,
I've been using 2 x 200GB Maxtor SATA drives on the Intel controller on an MSI 875P NEO FISR2 for months quite happily. I had a couple of 160GB IDE Maxtors lying around so i thought i'd make use of them on the Promise Controller. When i added the drivers and configured them for Raid1 all seemed fine. I formatted them in XP and started to use them. Things seemed a bit odd when i noticed that somthing seemed to be locking files after i'd copied a file over a network share to this PC using the Promise Raid1 IDE disks.
Whenever i clicked and selected or right clicked and viewed proprties for a file on this raid1 on the promise controller, if i tried to delete, amend or move the file XP would tell me that the file was in use by another person or program.
I've spent days on this and i know that no one else or another program is using this file. I can say this for sure as i totally formatted the PC and did a totally clean install of XP and created Restore Points before each driver was loaded. The problem only occured after i installed drivers for the Promise 378 controller (Driver version: 1.00.1.29
). I'm using the current ones off the MSI website (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=434&kind=1). The ones off the original CD won't even detect the promise controller. I also updated the bios to v2.4. I have nothing else installed on this PC, no other drivers or programs, its Windows XP SP1. If i install the promise drivers i get this file locking problem, if i restore prior to installing the promise drivers then everything works fine.
Has anyone ever setup a Raid1 using SATA drives on the Intel controller and a Raid1 using IDE drives on the Promise controller at the same time?
This should be possible shouldn't it?
Having lost lots of data in the past, i'm over cautious now and like to have Raid1 everything! ;-)
Thinking maybe the latest drivers from the MSI website might be buggy i tried some others that i found for the same controller but now i just get an error code 10, the device cannot be started...

Promise 378 - RAID 0 - Recovery settings required

I have a K8T NEO FISR motherboard with two Samsung 80gb SATA drives connected in RAID 0. Things were going along fine for the last several months and suddenly a couple of days ago, something went wrong and one of my drives dropped out of the array. Yes, it was stupid not having a current back-up of my hard drive, but regardless I am now trying to recover my files. They seem to be there, and a couple of different programs I'm playing with seem to be able to recover the files but they are corrupted. In looking at the files, especially JPG's it seems like the way the files are meshed is incorrect, and so I'm trying to find the default settings for the Promise 378 RAID 0 configuration.
I'm trying a program called File Scavenger and its asking for:
First Sector for both drives
Striping Block Size - I believe this is 128kb per the information displayed in the Promise 378 raid configuration
Data Blocks per Parity Group
Boot Sector - defaults to 319 but not sure if this is correct
From the way the pictures look, I think perhaps the setting that is causing me the most trouble is the First Sector location for the second drive... but being able to confirm all settings would be rather nice also.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated,
Cheers,
Arba

Yep - both drives got the long version of the Seagate Disk Tools test, and both passed without a hitch. That's five hours of my life I'll never get back.
Anyway - the Promise TX2300 RAID card arrived yesterday, so I disabled the motherboard Promise in the BIOS, installed the card in a spare PCI slot (my last one!), and connected the drives. It turns out that this card also wont recognise the cards at 3 Mb/s, but they worked instantly when the drive jumper was replaced to limit them to 1.5 Mb/s. Partitioned and formatted I now have a working 2 x 500 Gb RAID 1, though I'm going to leave it a week before I move anything important onto it.... er, 'just in case'.
To summarise, the motherboard Promise and this new Promise RAID card use different silicon so their implementations could be different, but neither would talk to the drives at 3 Mb/s. I strongly suspect the Seagate drives have a SATA2 problem. I could easily be wrong of course, but I'm off to the Seagate forums now to try and pin it down.
Dufflepod.

Intel 82801EB Serial Ultra ATA Storage controller?

Reworded
Bought a new HD. Seagate 80 Gb SATA.
Installed OK Setup Bios OK
Copied OS to new Drive OK
Selected new drive to boot to OK
Started windows and new hardware found. Not OK
The hardware found was "Intel 82801EB Serial Ultra ATA storage controller".
Driver found in WinNt / inf folder
Comes up with an installation error everytime "Data Invalid".
It seems to running on a std IDE controller, however I get the new hardware message everytime I boot.
Feels like something set in bios is not recognised by OS or driver is corrupt.
Any clues
Thanks in advance
Geoff

Thanks for that
Checked everything as suggested on the doco. I cannot see anything obvious. I would appear that windows see's it as a SERIAL ATA controller. However, I cannot find anything on Intel's site that refers to a "Intel 82801EB Serial Ultra ATA storage controller".
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Hi, I am going to buy a new iMac desktop. I am going for the 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel i7, 16 GB RAM and 2TB ATA Drive. I want to know whether I should go for the dual drives option i.e including the 256 GB SSD. I do a lot of 'heavy' media work. Brian

Hi, I am going to buy a new iMac desktop. I am going for the 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel i7, 16 GB RAM and 2TB ATA Drive. I want to know whether I should go for the dual drives option i.e including the 256 GB SSD. I do a lot of 'heavy' media work.

by looking at the specs the laptop is better but if your not a gamer or graphics designer then you most likly wont notice a difference in the performance at all so with that said a few downsides
the processor is i5 the i7 processor is the better processor the graphics card has half the dedicated memory that the laptop has and the hdd compared to the solid state is not much of a difference unless you wanna move your computer all the time you wont need a solid state drive
but like i said before if your not a gamer or graphics designer on your computer you will not notice the difference most likely

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