SATA RAID setup problem - 845PE Max2 FISR

Hi,
I have tried to switch from XP made RAID 1 (striping) to BIOS (SATA) supported one.
1. Detached 2xIBM 80G disks from IDE1
2. Attached a ViPower VP-9041 SATA to Ultra ATA (33/66/100/133) converter to each.
3. Changed the jumper on the slave disk to master.
4. Attached the disks to the SATA ports.
5. At boot checked if SATA is enabled in the BIOS - OK. (Not too many or sophisticated options can be found in my bios, see below.)
Originally the a 40GB Maxtor on IDE3 (supported by the Promise 376 SATA chipset as well) used for XP SP2 boot - it remained this way.
At first boot FastTrak BIOS detected IDE3 (as before) and scanned for other IDE drives, but detected only one of the two 80 GB SATA converted disks.
At later boots, neither SATA disks detected, but I got the folowing message from FastTrak BIOS:
Warning- FastTrak does not detect proper interrupts. Please check your PCI IRQ settings, and make sure the PCI slot supports Bus Master operations.
IDE3 disk detected correctly and the system can boot from it.
If I remove ony one of the SATA disks, no warning from BIOS, but the other SATA disk is not detected either.
Any hint? (Changing PCI Bus Master state in the BIOS to either enable or disable does not matter.)
My BIOS is AMI 3.31a.

Now I got another 845PE-MAX2-FISR from the dealer, and this one works!!
So the conclusion is, the other 845PE-MAX2-FISR coursed the ram error...
>> Assaf
Ofcourse its a legal one!

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Hi there, i'm new to this forum and have a few Q's
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Pc is to replace the ageing PIII 866 i815EP in my studio.
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And why are there only three RAID connectors when raid works in multiples of 2 disks?
The throughput of striped data transfers will increase my studios output but I have a limited knowledge of RAID.
Would I be better getting a seperate boot disk for O/S and programs and using the said H/D's for audio data?
I would appreciate any help with this. Am I just stupid or is the mobo manual a little vague on the subject
Cheers ! L8ers.

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I think this is it, at the very bottom of the page:
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Three manuals with this mobo and I just can't get it set up.
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ardi

OK, I actually went down to the basement and dug out the ICH5R Raid Manual. Basically it says in order to take advantage of the ability to migrate later on, you have to set Raid in Bios B4 loading Windows and install Raid driver with Windows setup. If you've already got Windows installed on 1 disk and had Bios set to"SATA as Raid- NO", you're out of luck.
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Quote
The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition offers the flexibility to
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This process will create a new RAID volume from an existing disk. However,
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configured in order to take advantage of RAID when upgrading to a second
SATA hard drive:
1. BIOS must be configured for RAID before installing Windows* XP
on the single SATA hard drive.
2. Install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID driver during Windows
Setup.
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operating system is installed.
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Install the hw that i select manually from a list - next .
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cannot find it now but one guy with convertors found they had jumpers on them had to be set for ata133 drives to work,honestley cannot recall make,but it was not highpoint
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one on each lead to the sata terminals

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Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 05-June-07, 01:32:35
and...? any changes?
get a copy of Memtest86 and test your memory for errors.
another and most suspected thing is your PSU:
"Antec 400W (3.3v/30 5v/28a 12v/14A)"
get a decent PSU with 30A or more on +12V.
Ah, I read the spec wrong. The PSU is dual rails so 12v1 is 14a and 12v2 is 15a. Hopefully, since pretty much everything else is unplugged, that should be enough power to boot.
I tried mem test, no errors after multiple passes.
Also, when I tried the new nVidia drivers, it got me to where I am now. Auto reboot when trying to start Windows. The old MSI drivers gave me an undefined error or an "unmoutable device" error. Both resulted in a bluescreen and immediate reboot.

975X SATA + RAID Setup

Hi, I'm fairly new to RAIDing and I was wondering how to setup up my drives.
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I know I will lose all the data on my existing drive and as far as I can tell, I have the BIOS set up correctly... Meaning I set the SATA mode for RAID.
I also know that there is some sort of configuration for the Intel RAID device settings, which you are supposed to hit (Ctrl + I) during POST in order edit your RAID mode and which drives you want to use for your RAID array. The problem with this is that I can't seem to get it to work. I don't know if I'm not hitting this at the right time, or even if i have to do it at all.
I've also heard that you might need to copy drivers to a floppy to get install the Intel RAID to be recognized before your WinXP install. This I think i can do on my own, but initally setting up the RAID 0 is my main concern right now. Thanks for any posts in advance,
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I figured out what the problem was.....
I have a PCI IDE controller card that was conflicting with the Intel RAID controller. It would not allow the RAID to even show up at POST.
After removing the card i could simply hit CTRL + I and configure my Raid. But now, Im out of 2 IDE controllers, which is a whole separate post in itself, thanks for the help.

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That's a good suggestion, and similar to what I was considering as a next step. The system hangs every time writing large data blocks to either raid0 array, and from different source drives. My next step was to start from the beginning keeping things as simple as possible to try and isolate the problem. I'll delete one of the hardware raid0 for instance, and if that works OK, keep adding drives until it fails.
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have been experiencing the following problem running raid 0 on sata.
Running any game after a period the game either stops working and crashes to the desktop or I get bluescreened with various error including IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or Stop 0x0000008e Win32k.sys.
Has anyone else suffered this problem and found a solution.
I have tried the following.
I have tried Raid 0 and jbod with no difference
Running a single Sata drive without raid the system appeared stable.
Games refused to run without XP SP2
The system ran fine on a single IDE
I have had long discussions with Microsoft who were very pleasant but unable to help.
I have rebuilt the system from scratch several times. It does not appear to matter what additional cards are installed.
My system is as follows.
Mother board MSI KT6V-LSR
Processor AMD XP3200+ 400fsb
Memory 2 x 512mb pc 3200 (Generic)
HDD 1 x maxtor 250gb 7Y250M0 1x WD 250gb WD2500JD
Sound Card Philips psc604
Tuner Pinnacle PCTV PRO
Fire wire Belkin 501
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Quote
Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
Is this what Microsoft has been wondering?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330187
What is your graphics card?
What are your temps?
Are there any error messages in Device Manager?
Final question: What optical devices, CD and DVD, do you have?
The thing about most of the 0x0000008e errors that Microsoft have reports on are pre XP SP2. They claim to have fixed that for SP2.
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CD LG CRD-8522B
DVD LG DVD-RAM GSA-4120B
Temps processor 48 - 51
chipset 38 - 40
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MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R RAID SETUP PROBLEM

hie everyone
with my hard disk now , how can i setup raid ?
detail plsee

Your signature shows 3 drives, all different sizes. If you are going to raid a pair, they should preferrably be the same size and preferrably the same type. If you raid a mismatched pair then your new raid "drive" will the the size of the smallest, losing the remaining space on the largest.

845PE Max2-FISR

Hi I am new to this forum. I just had 2 ?s for the MSI gurus. You can see my sig for my system specs.
1. I am using a Microsoft Optical mouse (standard 2 button). About every 15min my mouse would hang for about 5 sec. XP would make that beep sound as if it detected a new usb device. I have the ICH4 Intel USB 2.0 Drivers from SP1 installed. It does not do this when I use the USB to serial converter. Only when my mouse is plugged straight into the usb port. This is annoying espcially when I am microing in Warcraft III. What could be causing this?
2. Under device manager / network adapeters there is a 1394 net adapter icon with a IRQ conflict (the yellow icon with exclamation mark). MSI site shows that it is the VT6306 chipset. I have downloaded the chipset but it does not want to load correctly when I do a driver update. When I am browsing to direct it to the folder, nothing shows up. Again I am stumped there.
Thanks in advanced. :D

Heh... It was my mouse that was giving my problems. Some how the optical light kept going out when I lifed the mouse. When I put the mouse back down the light came back on and the USB read the mouse as if it was plugged in the first time.
Now to the 1394 driver problem.
Thanks Assaf.

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OK, I'm a little confused here
A couple of months ago, I bought a MSI 845PE Max2 (with SATA/RAID onboard)
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I was thinking about buying a SATA-disk (maxtor, 120Gb), but I don't get this: can I just plug this new disk on my motherboard, install my OS, an go?
Or does SATA only work in a RAID-setup?
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So in other words:
1) I plug the disk into a serial ATA-connector
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4) I install windows2000 just like before
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Hey :-)
have a major problem and u guys maybe can help me ?
i have 655 Max-FISR mainboard ,P4 2.66ghz with 512ram
im runing 2 WD Raptors36gbx2 Raid 0 on the onboard raid sata controller
but every 3-4 weeks the raid array gets offline..nothing i can do about so i format c:\ and install win again and its running again
this has happend 4 times now..and i dont like it at all
is there anything i can do to fix this problem??
im thinking if skipping the raid if i dont find a way to work this out :-/
plz help me !

oki
the system is not overclocked
when i setup the raid i use the autosetup
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