KT3 Ultra2 (problems with raid).

I have 4 80gb hard drives set up on my pc, and am trying to set them up as plain jbod drives, but the fastbuild utility that creates the arrays wont allow me to do anything besides a 1+0 stripe. Ive looked around for information on the controller itself (mbfasttrak133 lite), and really cant find anything useful on it at all. The 1+0 stripe seems to result in 4 80gb hard drives, but ive heard that if one drive fails in this setup, ill lose the info on 2 drives.
My specs:
Windows 2k Pro SP4
4 Seagate 7200 rpm 80gb (ST380021A) drives (2 hard drives on ide1, and 2 hard drives on raid1)
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.753ghz)
1024 MB DDRAM
GeforceFX 5600 256MB

That could be a problem then, my board just came with the standard kt3 ultra2 manual, and a few cool extras (some kind of cut out), but no manual on raid, and nothing in the kt3 manual about raid beyond a basic description.

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Bluegenes
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Also, my AEC A6880 is giving me a ROM expansion error, even though, in both OSes it can be seen....usualy. I just want to fix it
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Turn off onboard raid ctrl 1st. There are conflicting.
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hi people
need a bit help here
just bought this mobo yesterday to prepare for my cpu upgrade soon
i plugged everything in and it went fine but couldn't install xp until i just left everything in the bios at default
turned off my computer for a bit then i left and came back after about a hour to find out it wouldn't even post
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i unplugged everything and went bare bone (including putting in only 1 ram chip) but still 2 red and 2 green lights
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well i'm off to work right now
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I have MSI K8N Diamond (Bios version: 1.9)
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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
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1. Enabled nvraid from bios, (just enabled the 2 drives which i'm gonna strip)
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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:
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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:
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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.
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i have 3 sata's on ports 1, 2 and 3 and i create the array fine,
all sata options in bios are enabled,
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That sounds like a raid0 problem. No doubt about that. If I were you I would wait for someone like syar2003 to chime in here and help you out. I'll try and give my suggestions but I don't know how much help they'll be.
If you know for a fact that you gain disk performance with three drives in a raid0 array then I would disregard everything I'm about to say: I've never heard of a raid0 array with three drives. I didn't know you could have a raid0 array with three drives. Obviously, this does not mean that you can't do it, it just means I didn't know you could. I've heard of mirrored arrays with two active drives and one inactive backup because I set my machine up like that. Try putting the two drives on ports 3/4. Forget about the third drive, I don't think it's help. Disable the controller and raid all together on ports 1/2 (in other words, just disable ports 1/2 wherever possible). Then update nVRaid for your new two drive array and try again. This should fix your problems.

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