MSI K7T266A PRO2 RU - raid question?

Question to all of you, when You creating new array in raid bios we have three options(FastTrak100 "Lite")
A/V editing -
Server -
and Desktop - 64 kb
As you see last option has 64 kb size, question is what about the rest?
Best Regards
Radoslaw ZICZ

I'm sorry mate, was not a try to spam you forum sections, i posted there and then noticed it wasn't the good place at all and copy/pasted the whole text to another post, in the socket A based motherboards forum.

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4: http://uk.msi.com/product/mb/Z77-MPOWER.html#/?div=Manual <--- thats the manual and it has a section devoted to setting up a raid array and stripe it accordingly!
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I've just put together my new system. If it weren't for this forum, I might not have succeeded. Thanks for all the info out there.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

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- Chuck! ?( ;( ;( ;( ;( ?(

got one but its lightley used for storage but amd forum storage is full of tales of woe with them
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The Sempron CPU's are 333FSB, and cannot be used on that board. There is an Athlon XP2400+ that uses a 266FSB, and these can be used on some versions of the K7T266Pro by doing a modifaction. See here
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[VIA] RAID 0 Data Recovery with MSI K7T266 Pro2

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I have two 60gb HD running in Striped mode using the on-board raid. If I were to get the same motherboard, would this allow me to see the striped array and recover my data, or am I at a loss? I have some of the data backed up, but since most of it isnt, because I have nearly filled my 120GB of space and I don't have a good backup solution.
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Quote from: Richard on 29-November-05, 06:33:47
SporkLover,
My current RAID Array is on its 6th or 7th mobo (Multiple different mobo chipsets and different controllers) and I have not lost either the Array, Partition, or any Data.
You just have to make sure that you make the primary HD the same on the new RAID and it is Crucial that you use the same Stripe Size, if you do not, then all data will be lost!
Take Care,
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Rich,
Thats comforting to know! This setup has been the best, and most reliable, so when I bought all of the components years ago, I set it up and forgot most of the parameters.
I completely used up all of the available space so I think that should make guessing that stripe size easy.
osnavi, not entirely sure what happened. It started to lock up on me randomly, and after much trouble shooting and frustration, I gave up. Eventually I saw the problem, a few of the capacitors on the motherboard started to peak, and eventually busted. Not sure what caused it, maybe it was my power supply. Its an Enermax 400W, and when I bought it, it was within the required specs for the processor and Mobo. There was plenty of case cooling, as well as CPU Cooling... so it is a great mystery to me.
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Each time when I want to disable Fast COMMAND on this mobo system won't boot ?(
K7T266A PRO2-RU BIOS 3.74+Mod
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2X256MB CRUCIAL 2100
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Did you try overclock this mobo+bios3.74?
I made some tests and when I had 3.3 bios XP 2000+ and system was overclocked 145fsb the score i had 3dmark2001 was 8780(memory had max timmings), now i have 9250,
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OK guys that is all for now.
Radoslaw Zicz
Best Regards!

Yes. There is no differance between the CPUs except a single bridge.

K7T266 Pro2 RU - RAID controller as standard IDE port?

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When I try to start up my PC with the Promise RAID enabled it won't boot, I disable the RAID controller... the PC boots and the D-Link card works great.
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Thanx !

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Originally posted by Router
Please see the similar thread "POST failure D-Link DWL-520+ Wireless".
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<big breath>
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Some question back atcha:
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EDIT: As for the meaning of life, go ask your father.
Gaah... He handed me "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and told me to get to reading....
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