Raid 0 SATA on Promise Controller, Sata drive on Intel?

Hi all, wondering if I can run this setup:
(Specs in my Sig)
2 SATA WD Raptors, RAID 0 on the Promise controller
1 Maxtor 80Gig SATA on the Intel Controller
Is this an option or not?
I am setup on the Raptor's already and would like to install another HD on the Intel if it can be done like mentioned.
Thx for the help!
/D

Ok, I connected to the Intel SATA 1 plug and all is fine. WinXP found the drive, installed it and away I go.
Only other question I have..Is there a specific driver I should use for it now?
It shows up in the Device Manager as Follows in 2 places:
Disk Drives
Maxtor 6Y080M0
and
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storeage Controllers
Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storeage Controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
I'm not sure if it should show under SCSI and RAID Controllers.
Blazer: That link is dead. I would like to read the article if ya can find it again. Thx
Dirtnapper: I read another post here somewhere about what you are looking to do. It can't be too far back in the pages, possible in a link in the RAID guide at the top.
/D

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Can't access XP PRO on Via SATA with Promise SATA enabled......

Here's the deal.....I just bought a WD 250GB SATA drive. I currently have 2 WD raptors on VIA in RAID 0(dual boot w/win XP PRO). I installed new SATA using Promise controller and set it up as 1 disk RAID. This works fine with my IDE harddrive(Dual boot w/XP home), however, when I try to boot for the Raptors(VIA sata) I get can't start windows missing or corrupt file (windows root)/system32/hal.dll. Now, when I disable the Promise RAID, XP PRO on VIA RAID boots fine. Do these 2 controllers not work together? or am I just missing something??? Your help is appreciated....

When you enable the Promise controller, you're no longer able to boot from the VIA Raid. You need to use the Promise RAID/SATA to boot from, or an IDE device. Windows will see the VIA RAID controller, so you can setup a data-storage partition (or something like that) on the VIA.
Now, you probably want to move your Raptors to the Promise controller, just to make use of both controllers and to boot from your Raptors. If so, you can try the following.
1. Backup your disks - there's a 50/50% chance that this will not work, but it's worth a try and I managed to do it several times;
2. Now, boot up your system and install the Promise drivers (you have to play with this a bit, I don't know anymore how I did it last time. I think you have to enable the Promise controller in BIOS without connecting any drive. You'll still be able to boot from the VIA controller);
3. Shut down Windows and PC;
4. Connect drives from VIA controller to Promise controller;
5. Start system and enter Promise RAID Setup utility (watch your screen to see what keys to use - I'm at work now, and cannot check it for you);
6. Setup a RAID-array (exactly like you had it on the VIA - you may want to check using VIA config tool in Windows for block size, etc.);
7. When you setup this raid, the Promise uitl will give you a choice, how to proceed. One of these choices is to only initialize the array. Choose that one. The other option will destroy your data;
8. exit and reboot and hope that it will work. somethimes it does, sometimes it does not.

875P HDD Performance w/Promise controller

I performed 3 tests on my FIS2R motherboard with the drives connected to the ICH5R controller and the Promise controller in various combinations. The ICH5R controller supports drives up to ATA 100 speeds, and the Promise controller supports drives up to ATA133 speeds (for parallel drives). HDD1 is a ATA100/7200RPM drive, and HDD2 is a ATA133/7200RPM drive.
I used both HD Tach v2.61 and Aida32 v3.61 for these tests. Both gave me similar results, so I'm posting only the results that I got from Aida in the quick linear mode.
Configuration 1:
      HDD1: ICH5R - 30.4 MB/s
      HDD2: ICH5R - 38.7 MB/s
Configuration 2:
      HDD1: ICH5R - 30.5 MB/s
      HDD2: Promise - 38.8 MB/s
Configuration 3:
      HDD1: Promise - 30.4 MB/s
      HDD2: Promise - 38.7 MB/s
When both drives were connected to the ICH5R controller (configuration 1), Aida confirmed that both HDDs were running at ATA100. This is what I would expect, but why is HDD2's benchmark 30% higher if they are both running at ATA100?
When HDD1 was connected to ICH5R and HDD2 was connected to Promise (configuration 2), both POST on bootup and Aida confirmed that HDD2 was running at ATA133. HDD1 was at ATA100. This is what I would expect, but why don't I see an improvement in the benchmark for HDD2?
When both drives were connected to the Promise controller (configuration 3), POST on bootup and Aida said HDD2 was running at ATA100. Why doesn't HDD2 run in the ATA133 mode? Is it because the Promise controller chooses the slower of the 2 drives as it's maximum rate?
Can anyone explain what's going on here?
Also, under Device Manager, I noticed that the Promise controller is identified as a SCSI device. I assume that this is normal.
MSI 875P FIS2R motherboard BIOS 1.4
CPU: 2.4 GHz P4/800 MHz
OS: W2K
RAM: 2X 512M Kingston Value DDR RAM, CL=3
Video: Radeon 9500 Pro
HD1: Maxtor 40G, 7200 RPM, ATA 100, NTFS formated
HD2: Maxtor 120G 7200 RPM ATA 133, FAT 32 formated
PS: Enermax 431W
Speakers: Logitech Z640

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Originally posted by Keyan
You can check the WD easily - on boot, the Promise controller will report the drives attached and the DMA (hopefully 5) that they are in.
If using 875 FISR2, you only can choose SATA or Raid on promise IDE. So the the Promise controller will report SCSI only .
There could be about a thousand reasons why it's slower - slower write time on the WD, drive fragmentation, going across buses over PCI, some other program was aceesing one or both drives at the same time, the stars in the sky were aligned improperly , etc... Oh, and transferring a large file across paritions is ALWAYS slower than it is from drive to drive, you only have one read/write head working on a single drive, while you have 2 working when you go between 2 drives.
I also try to copy from partition to partition in my HItachi and speed also is very fast .
Now it is weird that changing the IDE channel is making both drives go into DMA 5 vs. one going to PIO....have you tried different cables?
I try 3 different cables and every cable can work on UDMA 5 Mode .

Promise PDC20579 SATA/RAID controller

I'm trying to get the piece of shit working with Linux, but haven't had any luck. I'm not sure which Promise add-on cards use this chip as this one is built into my mobo, where it provides 2-SATA and 1-PATA port. I'm using the PATA with 2 drives (160GB, 60GB) and I don't want to setup a RAID array, but just use it as an extra IDE controller.
The BIOS detects the drives correctly but linux doesn't recognize the Promise controller, so it's not assigning device nodes for the drives (no hd* or sd*) and I can't seem to make it work. The correct kernel module, according to the net, is sata_promise, but I'm not certain it supports the PATA part of the controller. When loaded, it prints info about the connected drives to dmesg, but never assigns device nodes.

Okay, so I found a patch in the Red Hat kernel mailing list that seems to work. It patches the sata-promise module to attempt to detect PATA ports when nothing is connected via SATA. I don't have any SATA discs so I cannot check to see if it breaks anything in regards to SATA.
If anyone else is interested, I'll strip the RH specific stuff from the patch and submit it to the Arch kernel devs for review. Not sure if enough people would find is useful tho.

[Athlon64] CAN'T SEE SINGLE SATA DRIVE / K8T NEO no Promise controller

I have a K8t NEO -the cheapskate version with no PROMISE SATA controller or on-board Firewire
I have been running on XP SP2 on 2 IDE drives, everything is ok. I added a SINGLE SATA drive and turned the VIA SATA controller on in BIOS. I did the MSI Live Update and have the latest VIA SATA driver, latest chipset, latest BIOS, latest EVERYTHING. At boot, the VIA SATA controller reports my Hitachi SATA as Channel 0 Primary" in the SATA devices table. Going into the SATA RAID menu it tells me "You can't make RAID with just one drive" which is true, of course. But the point is the controller SEES the drive.
I've run MSI Live Update and have the latest BIOS, latest SATA XP driver, latest EVERYTHING.
Windows XP doesn't see the SATA drive.
In XP I see a VIA RAID CONTROLLER in Hardware / Device Manager which is DISABLED. When I right-click then click ENABLE on the VIA RAID CONTROLLER the machine reboots immediately. I tried safe mode, same thing. I tried BIOS settings of "No PNP O/S Installed" and "Yes PNP O/S Installed" and reset the NVRAM. No change.
I think there must be an IRQ conflict.... I have a sound card (on-board sound is turned OFF in BIOS) and AGP video card, and that's it- no WiFi NIC or anything else to eat up IRQ resources. I use the Realtek on-board ethernet.
I tried my Windows 98 partition and that booted, detected the new hardware (VIA SATA) and I installed the driver from the MSI CD and Win 98 is happy with the SATA drive..... it sees the drive just fine.
How do I make Windows XP see the SATA drive?

Have you tried starting XP with CD and entering recovery, log on as admin and see if SATA drive is there? Remember to "F6" with a floppy drive of SATA drivers for
-XP-... I'm assuming you already have as you said all is uptodate. When the boot BIOS for the VIA SATA apprears and you press "TAB" I believe it is, you can mess with the SATA functions. Sorry if does not apply to your compy or you've already done all this.... BTW you CAN run a RAID array with one HDD, at least thats what I did on my Promise controller.
In my Device Manager under Disk drives it looks like this (notes bracketed are noting position):
Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0 (G:\ 1-160GB IDE Seagate/notice ONE drive)
Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (F:\ 2x200 SATA)
ST3160023A (Location 1 (1) VIA IDE D:\)
VIA SATA RAID 0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (E:\ 2x120 SATA)
WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (Location 0 (0) VIA IDE C:\)
Under the boards BIOS, is the SATA drive listed under the BOOT table??? In my system it lists the above 5 partitions (7 HDD's total), floppy, 2 CD/DVD drives, etc...
Oh also in Device Manager IS the VIA SATA controller appearing in the "SCSI and RAID controllers" tab??? I have set mine to just SATA before and of course now it says "VIA SATA RAID Controller"... for you it should read "VIA SATA Controller". Remember there are 2 different drivers for the SATA controller, one for SATA and one for SATA RAID. Look on your floppy disk or if you saved out the updated driver. I made a new floppy with the latest XP drivers. When booting from WINXP CD, and promted for "F6" and press it, later it will show you TWO different drivers after reading the floppy disk for XP. You obviously want the non RAID driver... hope that helps somewhat... g'luck

Can't see non-RAID SATA on promise in XP

First of all, I just spent over an hour searching and reading the forums trying to find an answer, and couldn't, so I reluctantly have to turn to posting an issue that probably has been covered before.
Simple issue: When setting the Promise controller to "as SATA" in the AMI BIOS, I can't see the disks in Windows XP. However, when I set the controller to "as RAID", and configure an array on the disks via the Promise BIOS (ctrl-F), I see the RAID array just fine in XP. Promise Fasttrack 378/478 drivers were installed during initial XP installation.
Also, I note that while I don't get the ctrl-F prompt for the Promise BIOS array configuration when the Promise controller is set to "as SATA" in AMIBIOS, I do see the Promise chip identify the disks as D0 and D1 in a very quick message that flashes by.
Is there a different driver I need to load for the Promise controller if I'm n ot using the SATA and IDE3 ports for RAID? Some particular arrangement of settings for the other On-Chip I/O that I need to be careful of?
I'm stumped...

Yes there are 2 separate drivers.
The Promise U-SATA drivers are on the floppy as well as the MSI CD.
Generally the floppy is only used during the install of WinXP where XP is installed on the Promise controller.
In your case, you already have XP installed on another drive and want to add the Promise U-SATA driver. Using the MSI CD would be preferable because it should auto-detect your hardware and offer the correct Promise driver providing you have Bios>>Peripheral Devices>>Promise Controller-"As SATA" selected.
It took me a while to figure out that the CD offers different choices depending on how you have the Bios set up.
After the drivers are installed correctly, you may have to use Windows Disk Manager(or a 3rd party util. if you have) to partition/format the drives before they show up in Explorer.

Promise SX8 Sata Card - mdadm Raid resync stuck at 0.0%

Hi,
I have been trying out a Promise SATAII150 SX8 PCI-X Card and have run into a problem.
mdadm (v2.6-1) is stuck at 0.0% (hours) after a create. Things like trying to format the array or stop the resync causes the terminal to freeze.
Does anyone know of anything that could be causing this?
Also does anyone know how/where to set "max_queue=16" to increase performance for the sx8 module?
Thanks.
sample mdadm line:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=6 /dev/sx8/0p1 ...
i686 Arch
kernel 2.6.19.2
Opteron, 2GB, 6x300GB
dmesg | grep sx8
sx8 version 1.0
sx8(0000:03:02.0): found 6 interesting devices
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 0 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 0 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 1 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 1 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 2 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 2 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 3 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 3 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 4 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 4 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 5 device 586114704 sectors
sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 5 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
sx8/0: p1
sx8/1: p1
sx8/2: p1
sx8/3:
sx8/4:
sx8/5:
sx8(0000:03:02.0): 6 ports activated
sx80: pci 0000:03:02.0, ports 8, io fe100000, irq 17, major 160
sx8/3: p1
sx8/4: p1
sx8/5: p1
md: bind<sx8/0p1>
md: bind<sx8/1p1>
md: bind<sx8/2p1>
md: bind<sx8/3p1>
md: bind<sx8/4p1>
md: bind<sx8/5p1>
raid5: device sx8/4p1 operational as raid disk 4
raid5: device sx8/3p1 operational as raid disk 3
raid5: device sx8/2p1 operational as raid disk 2
raid5: device sx8/1p1 operational as raid disk 1
raid5: device sx8/0p1 operational as raid disk 0
disk 0, o:1, dev:sx8/0p1
disk 1, o:1, dev:sx8/1p1
disk 2, o:1, dev:sx8/2p1
disk 3, o:1, dev:sx8/3p1
disk 4, o:1, dev:sx8/4p1
disk 0, o:1, dev:sx8/0p1
disk 1, o:1, dev:sx8/1p1
disk 2, o:1, dev:sx8/2p1
disk 3, o:1, dev:sx8/3p1
disk 4, o:1, dev:sx8/4p1
disk 5, o:1, dev:sx8/5p1
cat /proc/diskstats | grep sx8
160 0 sx8/0 67 485 3988 1428 2 0 8 0 0 444 1428
160 1 sx8/0p1 550 3972 2 8
160 32 sx8/1 62 482 3956 1564 2 0 8 0 0 420 1564
160 33 sx8/1p1 542 3940 2 8
160 64 sx8/2 64 482 3964 1568 2 0 8 4 0 416 1572
160 65 sx8/2p1 544 3948 2 8
160 96 sx8/3 58 484 2444 1196 3 0 16 12 7 3724444 26070260
160 97 sx8/3p1 542 3940 2 8
160 128 sx8/4 56 485 2196 1088 3 0 16 8 8 3724464 29794420
160 129 sx8/4p1 542 3940 2 8
160 160 sx8/5 50 57 460 212 9 210 1504 60 1 3724380 3724396
160 161 sx8/5p1 100 404 219 1744
mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Thu Feb 15 22:44:07 2007
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1465248000 (1397.37 GiB 1500.41 GB)
Used Dev Size : 293049600 (279.47 GiB 300.08 GB)
Raid Devices : 6
Total Devices : 6
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Feb 15 22:44:07 2007
State : clean, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 6
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
Rebuild Status : 0% complete
UUID : 477c93de:1846baae:2a477155:25972514
Events : 0.1
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 160 1 0 active sync /dev/sx8/0p1
1 160 33 1 active sync /dev/sx8/1p1
2 160 65 2 active sync /dev/sx8/2p1
3 160 97 3 active sync /dev/sx8/3p1
4 160 129 4 active sync /dev/sx8/4p1
6 160 161 5 spare rebuilding /dev/sx8/5p1
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sx8/5p1[6] sx8/4p1[4] sx8/3p1[3] sx8/2p1[2] sx8/1p1[1] sx8/0p1[0]
1465248000 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/5] [UUUUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (868/293049600) finish=597464.5min speed=3K/sec
unused devices: <none>
Last edited by judfilm (2007-02-15 12:51:47)

Great work vango44!
Here are some RAID performance statistics I gathered while testing RAID on my system. The testing software was Winbench 99. The hard drives tested were new Seagate ST380013AS drives, formatted NTFS. Winbench was running on a third drive that is not included in the tests and should not affect the results.
The drives were reformatted between tests and chkdsk'ed to try and keep things "apples to apples".
No hardware or software changes other than the RAID setup/connections were made between tests.
Higher numbers mean better performance.
I also ran the same tests on the newish WD Raptor 10K drives:
I couldn't stand all the noise the Raptors made, so I returned them.
On my motherboard:
SATA 1 & 2 = Intel RAID controller
SATA 3 & 4 = Promise RAID controller
If the test title does not include "RAID", then it was a single drive test.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spreadsheet version of the above stats. Otherwise I'd create nice bar charts for us and it's would be easier to deduce performance.
Perhaps some kind reader will OCR the pictures, put them into Excel, and make some nice bar charts for us?
Hope the info helps.

865pe Neo 2 FIS2R, SATA RAID on Intel works but Single SATA on Promise dont???

Hi Guys,
Im sure this has been asked before so please forgive me but here goes.
I have a 865PE Neo2 FIS2RMB, 2 gig ram, P4 CPU running XP SP2.
On the MB's Intel SATA controller I have a Pair of WD Raptors in RAID0 array which works great.
but I also want to put a 500gig SATA HD on the promise controller as a storage drive.
I have spent 2 days trying to get it to work but no luck. If I enable the promise in the BIOS then my comp goes into a run bios then reboot cycle. I have installed the latest promise drivers from MSI but these are old anyway.
This is driving me mad and I an going grey way before my time. Has anyone managed to do this and can anyone suggest anything?
Thank you in advance
Kenny

Halo!
Try to put old disk on SATA3 and SATA4 and add the new disk on SATA1 or SATA2.
Go in the Native mode, put S-ATA and do not configure S-ATA as RAID.
Do not forget to install Promise Fastrack 378 first from CD or Liveupdate on the Windows before you put them on Promise controller!
I usually install everything on HD on Intel SATA them move HD on Promise and create RAID 1.
Best regards, PiKo

Is RS480M2 support raid 1 for all 4 SATA drive?

I would like to check that RS480M2 support raid 1 for all 4 SATA hard drive or not? The configuration would be SATA1-SATA2 as first set of mirror drive and SATA3-SATA4 as second set of mirror drive. Is this motherboard support this kind of configuration that I need? (2 Sets of mirrors)

I have the same question?
Please Help.
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Anyone Using Via Raid0 And 1 Sata On Promise?

I'm using raid 0 on VIA and want to use a maxtor sata 80gb on Promise for files. When I boot it shows the maxtor in Promise but not in Windows. When I go to the drivers for Promise, it says CODE 10. I searched the posts for this but didn't find anything. Any help will be welcome.

Wait, you made the single drive into an array on the Promise controller?
Then you probably had the Promise controller setting wrong all along. In the system BIOS (NOT Promise BIOS), you need to go to "Integrated Peripherals" and then "Onboard PCI Controller" or whatever (the name of the submenu depends on your BIOS version).
There you'll find an option called "Promise 378 Controller" that can be set to "Disabled, SATA, or RAID"
Yours must be on RAID. If you put it on SATA, you could've used the single drive without making an array.
If it's on SATA, there will be no option to enter the Promise BIOS setup, and it will NOT call itself a "FastTrack" controller. When it is set to RAID, it will use the FastTrack BIOS and give you an option to enter disk setup.
Having a single disk array isn't really a problem... but it's not necessary if you don't have any real RAID arrays on the controller.
I currently have my Raptor array on the Promise controller, and my two largest PIDE drives on the IDE3 connector. Each of them is in its own "array" so that it can be recognized while the Promise controller is in RAID mode.

MacPro Raid ?. Can I stripe 3 promise 450gb SAS drives.

I'm thinking about ordering a new MacPro Quad core 3.33ghz. Along with the raid card and 3 Promise 450GB SAS drives. Can I stripe across 3 drives or does it half to be 2 or 4.
Secondly can I put a SATA drive in the 4th bay and install OSX and use bootcamp to install windows? Then of course I would occas boot into windows.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Ray

Most people find the Apple RAID card too much trouble.
You want to check the Apple support pages for RAID card, too.
Can't mix SATA and SAS.
Can't run Windows natively (VM only).
Changes sleep behavior.
I'd invest in SSD or high speed SATA.
Having run 2.66 / 3.0 / 3.4GHz it really depends if it is worth the extra cost, but in any event, wait for Xeon 5600/3600s to come out.
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro/

ARC path (boot.ini) for SATA on Promise contr. (KT6d)

Hi!
I've recently purchased and installed my first SATA disk, connected to my Promise SATA/RAID controller on my K6 delta motherboard. It is a ghosted duplicate of my old system disk, and now I struggle with the boot.ini file, which still addresses my old disk for boot of Windows XP, in stead of my new one.
The boot.ini files reads:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="NEW Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
The first OS line (multi....) is my old disk, which I have kept for backup purposes. The second line is supposed to be my new SATA disk on the first of the two slots on my Promise integrated SATA RAID controller. Problem is, this disk is not found by Windows XP during boot. I have tried the two following configurations for the ARC path:
scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
Both without luck. Anyone got any idea how to modify boot.ini to make it boot of my disk (which is the first and only SATA disk on my Promise controller)? The BIOS seems to indicate that the SCSI controller is marked as "2", thus the "scsi(2)" line, but even with "scsi(0)" it fails.
PS: If I boot using my old disk, the new SATA disk pops up, so the disk and controller is fine, and there is only one partition on the disk.
PPS: The actual error message is as follows:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

Thanks for the tip (and the links) - didn't know the Via controller was better, I'll switch
But, using the VIA controller, it wil still be detected as a SCSI disk, right? In which case I'll still need to know the "ARC path" (on the format scsi(x)disk(y) etc.) for my boot.ini. I guess I could just try the most likely combinations, but if anyone knows which ARC path to use for the VIA or Promise I'd be much obliged
I can still use my VIA SATA even though I am still having regular IDE devices on all my EIDE ports, right? (Meaning, there is no conflict where I have to choose either ATA/IDEA or SATA for my VIA controller, thus rendering one of my EIDE disks unconnected if I enable the SATA?)

P67A-GD65 (B3) SATA 6gb/s controller

Hello,
I'm a newbie here and would like to get some help on configuration of the SATA 6gb/s controller.
I installed a Crucial C300 on SATA 1 and a Western Digital WD1002FAEX (SATA III) hard drive on SATA 2,
and they seem to be working fine, but is there any way to figure out if they are on the proper controller?
I'm not sure if they are, because the Device Manager doesn't say much about the controller.
Do I have to look in BIOS? If so, where should I look?
BTW, I'm using AHCI. I don't really know what that means, but I selected AHCI during the setup.
Thanks in advance

Quote from: dilburt on 13-March-11, 12:51:38
Well there are two different processes involved with this. The first part is how you install Windows 7 which it sounds like you have done. If I recall correctly there isn't a selection for IDE, AHCI or RAID, it just depends on whether you install using the default process or use the "Advanced..." link at the install drive selection screen and which driver you load using this option (the Intel RAID drivers use AHCI). Once you have the correct drivers loaded you select the operating mode for the controllers in BIOS.
I chose the optimum setting option. However, I realized that the system didn't recognize my Western Digital hard drive in BIOS (I installed Win 7 on SSD) after Win 7 was installed,
so I did some research and figured out the way to enable AHCI by following this link. http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc-after-installation/
Then the hard drive was recognized and fully working.
I wish the manual is more clear on this kind of procedures, for a newbie like me.

Lenovo G500 - Intel Rapid Storage Technology" SATA disk on Controller 0, Port Unknown detected"

Hi Folks,
I have a lenovo G500 laptop which i had purchased during thanksgiving vaction in 2013. The machine was working fine till June 2014 when I stated getting Blue Screen of death with error messages "irql_not_less_or_equal" The OS was windows 8.1. This created lot of problem while booting , the machine would not boot at all.
Along with this message I started getting this message "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" SATA disk on Controller 0, Port Unknown detected". This message was coming very often.
I along with Lenovo support did all the things possible, like factory reset etc. Finally the machine was sent out to depot for repair in July 2014. They replaced the hard drive and sent the machine back.
I got the machine back on 22nd July and since last week ,ie, 14th July I have started to get the issues again. My IE and Firefox will suddenly hangon and the blue screen will appear again with same message "irql_not_less_or_equal" occasionally. Yesterday i started getting Sata disk message again.
I wanted to understand why this message is coming back along with blue screen of death. Is there some problem with Windows OS or hard disk seems to crash again?
Thanks in advance
shailesh

hi Shailesh,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
From this article, this is the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL possible cause:
"This bug check is issued if paged memory (or invalid memory) is accessed when the IRQL is too high.
The error that generates this bug check usually occurs after the installation of a faulty device driver, system service, or BIOS.
If you encounter bug check 0xA while upgrading to a later version of Windows, this error might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version."
From your description, It's possible that the HDD or the RAM is faulty but it's also possible that it's a software (driver) issue -- which is the hard drive (SATA) controller.
To verify, I would:
1. Run a diagnostic on the HDD (via Lenovo's Storage Quick Test or via HD Tune)
- http://www.hdtune.com/faq_1.html
2. Run a diagnostic on the RAM (via Memtest86+)
- RAM - Test with Memtest86+
3, Read the BSOD dump file to see what file caused the crash
- How to solve Windows 8 crashes in less than a minute
- If the file is associated with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver (SATA Controller), uninstall the software from the Control Panel > Programs and let Windows install a generic Windows driver.
- Link to picture
If you get an error after running the diagnostic test, I recommend you contact Lenovo and report the issue.
Regards
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Promise T3 Sata II Ports

Are the two Promise T3 Sata II ports usable for normal sata drives on my K9A2 platinum ?
I am a little confused by the designation in the specs which says:
"2 SATA II (5~6) ports by Promise® T3, support SAS ready devices, for storage devices only"
What does it mean when it says "for storage devices only" ? Perhaps this is just another way of saying for hard drives rather than CD/DVD drives.
If these ports are usable for sata hard drives do I have to do anything in the BIOS or in Windows ( Vista or 7 ) in order to use sata drives off of these ports ?

Hi eldiener again ,yes , you can use them with normal HDD-s (only).
If you need drivers for Windows 7 there is a solution to mod Promise drivers
Take a look here (available via forum FAQ)-> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=146046.0
For one drive performance is weak ~ 140 megs per second.
I ll thank Bas again for adding this to the forum FAQ.

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