Bad Axe 2 owners : Drive problems

[conuk]

ok i have the following drives :

2 x raptor 150gb sata in raid 0 (2 intel sata ports)
1 x 320 sata (intel sata port)

1 x 150gb ide (oldy but got data on I need for now)

just bought 2 x seagate 500 gb sata drives.

what I want to do is hook up the 2 seagates on the secondary controller so I can transfer everything onto these.... then will ditch the others.... I think.

theres 4 intel matrix ports (which the first 3 drives are on)

and then 4 more for the marvel controller.

hooking the 2 new seagates onto the marvell controller prevents bootup - any ideas whats up ? - secondary controller finds the drives ....

if I disable the secondary sata controller - all is fine - Ive swapped the drives over from intel to marvell - (apart from the raptors) and they work fine on the intel satas - as soon as I enable the secondary controller and put a drive on it wont boot up - (yep Ive selected the raptors to boot when hooking up the drives)

Any ideas - I know I can put the new ones on the intel satas - but I just need to backup the old drives before (possibly) removing them.

 

[rpstewart]

You got all the drivers loaded for the Marvell controller?

The boot order isn't picking up the drive on the Marvell controller instead of the one on the Intel controller?

 

[conuk]

yeah got all the drivers loaded for the marvell controller.

As soon as secondary controller is turned on in Bios - it just hangs at boot screen (just before Windows logo comes up)

Disable - everything good to go again.

Is it possible to have 2 raid arrays via 2 controllers at the same time ?

 

[Elric]

I had a similar issue. I was trying to use 2 Sata DVDRW's in the Marvell controller and have the matrixRAID deal with 4 WD AAKS drives.

I had the bios use the Intel raid as the only boot connection and it still hung.

I ended up going back to using the EIDE controller and a single DVDRW and disabled the Marvell.


Might be worth checking your BOIS version as they have released some updates in Oct 07.

 

[conuk]

thanks.
I think the problem is in the option `Configure SATA as raid` - you have to have both controllers as RAID or IDE.

in the manual it says set it to IDE when connecting to the marvell controller - but then you loose my 2 raptors on the intel raid controller.

will check out the BIOS update