X58 Pro BIOS 7.3

MSI tech support sent me BIOS 7.3 version for the MSI Pro X58.  Doing the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3 will kill the RAID config.  Seems like JBOD is missing as an RAID option in 7.3. In 7.1 I had a single drive JBOD as my boot drive and 5x500GB drives in RAID-0.  The RAID 0 drive was not accessible under 7.3 and I had to recreate and restore.  the JOB drive was accessible as a non-RAID Drive.

Quote from: sangster on 02-May-09, 23:02:25
MSI tech support sent me BIOS 7.3 version for the MSI Pro X58.  Doing the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3 will kill the RAID config.  Seems like JBOD is missing as an RAID option in 7.3. In 7.1 I had a single drive JBOD as my boot drive and 5x500GB drives in RAID-0.  The RAID 0 drive was not accessible under 7.3 and I had to recreate and restore.  the JOB drive was accessible as a non-RAID Drive.
I just updated mine from 7.1 to 7.3. No proble like that. Once the bios is updated, I did load optimized, then do RAID mode. I have a disk set up as boot disk, and two drives as RAID 0. Works.

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    Is the X58 Pro-E a 'replacement' board as you call it, or a new introduction board to the line-up? Have you been ignored so far over your 'self proclaimed' lemon?

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