X4200 Lsi SAS Controller and...RAID??

Hi all,
I've got an X4200 with a 4x73 GB SAS drives.
Accessing to LSI Logic configuration I've discovered something I really didn't like.
With 2 disks on a X4100 server I created a RAID-1 and that's ok but with these 4 disks on X4200 the only things I could choose was:
1. a stripe of the 4 disks and that's absolutely to avoid :-/
2. a mirror (R1) of the first couple of disks and the 3rd and 4th disks left alone...
I thought that I was able to create at least a stripe of two disks and then to couple in R-1 with another stripe of the remaining ones...nothing to do
I can understand that I can let the os to manage some R-5 but unfortunately I was installing an ESX server 3 that has no driver for dynamic disks...
Suggestions?

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D20 Blue Screen loading Windows 7-64bit using Intel controller and Marvell enabled

Hi, Help,
Hardware:
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Recover or repair a degraded RAID array.
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"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen,
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If I access the Marvell BIOS (ctrl-M) and look at Devices, one of the four Seagate drives has status FREE instead of status ASSIGNED. If I run the Marvell BIOS verify disk utility diagnosic on that FREE status disk, I get a fault error after about 30 minutes of scanning. So, one Seagate disk is sour and somehow the MBR was corrupted at the same time.
History:
Two years ago, during the intial configuration, I could access the Marvell RAID disks from this Intel-controller-booted Windows 7 installation, but my fuzzy memory is that I had to change something in the D20 BIOS, such as the AHCI setting or similar.
Status:
Today, using the Intel controller to boot Windows 7 with the Marvell controller enabled is just BSOD. What am I missing or failing to do or set?
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-John
Solved!
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Update:
I replaced the 500GB Seagate disk with a new 500GB Seagate. I ran the Marvell BIOS verify disk utility on the new disk drive and it passed with no errors. Following the steps given in the Marvell MRU online help, I rebuilt the virtual disk. Upon completion (which took a little more than an hour to complete), I rebooted. Before the Seagate disk went south yesterday, the Marvell virtual disk contained one primary partition (C, and four NTFS drives (D:, E:, F:, and Z. Now it contains three primary NTFS drives (C:, F:, and Z. An extended partition contains D: (an unformatted volume of size 199.30MB) and an unused space of 199.30GB.
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Multimedia Audio Controller, and Video Controller(VGA compatible) are missing on Windows XP(32Bit) SP3

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My Desktop Computer(Intel P 4, 512MB of RAM, and Graphics Card with 256MB of RAM)
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I have installed another fresh clean Windows XP(32Bit) SP3. However, I have two devices not detected well by Windows XP.
First of all, when saying that I have multi-operationgs systems, I mean there are two operating systems installed on my PC(SP2, SP3) both are 32Bit. The first Windows SP2(NOT installed by me) has all multimedia audio card installed well,
and has SCSI and RAID Host Controller shown the device manager. However, only the VGA is not installed on Windows SP2. However, the second one Windows SP3(Installed by me) has VGA not installed, Multimedia audio NOT installed, and there is no SCSI and RAID
Host Controller in device manager.
First: Yes, my motherboard has integrated video, and integrated audio card
According to the screen shots above, then
The vendor ID of Multimedia Audio Controller is 8086 and the device ID is
24D5.
The vendor ID of Video Controller is 8086 and the device ID is
2572.
I AM EXPECTING THAT KNOWING THE VENDOR ID AND THE DEVICE ID WILL LET ME QUICKLY FIND THE APPROPRIATE DRIVER. HOWEVER, I COULDN'T FIND THE APPROPRIATE DRIVER.
Thus, could you please help me to find them?
I have tried installing a soundMAX card driver, however, I found this error.
I have checked the other Windows XP SP2(32Bit) which is oder installed, and it seems it infected by some viruses.
However, the Multimedia Audio on that Windows is installed well. As here: I only posted these screen shots to show what kind of device is Multimedia Audio Card
The motherboard model is:
Belarc Advisor Computer Profile
Operating
System
System
Model
Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United
States)
System Locale: Arabic (Yemen)
Installed: 22/03/2013 12:03:16
ص
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure
Boot not supported)
Enclosure Type:
Desktop
Processor
a
Main Circuit Board
b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium
4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory
cache
64-bit ready
Hyper-threaded (2 total)
Board: 775i65G.
Bus
Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P3.00
03/20/2007
Drives
Memory Modules
c,d
39.99 Gigabytes
Usable Hard Drive Capacity
29.48 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free
Space
COMPAQ CD-ROM LTN486S [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable
media [Floppy drive]
WDC WD400BB-75DEA0 [Hard drive] (40.00 GB) -- drive
0, rev 05.03E05, SMART Status:
Healthy
504 Megabytes Usable
Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is
Empty
Local Drive
Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) *
20.98 GB
14.16 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0)
19.01 GB
15.33 GB free
<center>
* Operating System is installed on
c:
</center>
Network
Drives
None
discovered
Users
(mouse over user name for details)
Printers
local user
accounts
last logon
عايض
لرضي
19/01/2015 10:59:17 م
(admin)
local system
accounts
Administrator
never
(admin)
Guest
never
HelpAssistant
never
SUPPORT_388945a0
never
<center>Marks
a disabled account; Marks
a locked account </center>
Controllers
Display
Standard floppy disk
controller
Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Primary IDE
Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
None
discovered
Bus
Adapters
Multimedia
Intel(R) 82801EB USB
Universal Host Controller - 24D2
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host
Controller - 24D4
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller -
24D7
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24DE
Intel(R)
82801EB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24DD
None
discovered
Virus
Protection [Back to Top]
Group
Policies
Norton AntiVirus Version 18.1.0.37
 Virus Definitions Version Not Up To Date
 Realtime File Scanning
On
None
discovered
Communications
Other
Devices
↓ Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast
Ethernet NIC
Status:
Cable unplugged
Dhcp Server:
none responded
Physical Address:
00:19:66:1F:F7:54
USB Human Interface
Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2
Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
USB Root Hub (5x)
USB Storage Use in past 30 Days(mouse
over last used for details)
Hosted Virtual Machines (mouse over
name for details)
Last
Used
SanDisk Cruzer Blade, s/n
4C532000020502112303, rev 2.01
19/01/2015
09:32:57 م*
USB 2.0 USB Flash Drive, s/n
59309e92e21612, rev 0.00
09/01/2015
12:29:17 ص*
<center>* Possibly used again before the reboot following this
time.</center>
None
discovered
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A man should convert his anger and sadness into strength to continue living in this life.

Dont worry, dont think anyone was as a matter of fact
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=908&jump= true#M908
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;80509
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;84567
that worked for me, maybe it will help someone else that went through what i did, its a miracle i did not top myself after going through all this BS. ALSO dont threaten your computer with violence, cos it will always call your bluff which makes things worse

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