DS3 - RAID problem
- Thread starter FatRakoon
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Snapshot said:
Hmm....
On reading this, I just had a thought...
During the loading of the installation program, I noticed that it looked on the floppy automatically...
I wonder if I need to actually insert the floppy as it asks me abotu adding my own, rather than having the floppy in all the time during the whole boot process????
Can anyone verify this one for me? Im just not quite up to that one for a minute? - maybe thats the point? Maybe it cannot load it when it finds *** one on the floppy, but it will, if its the one we tell it to?... Even though they are the same thing?
Dunno TBH. I always have the floppy as the first boot device (I'm old-fashioned) so would never have the diskette in the drive from the start.
I've done a bit of experimenting on the test partition and have managed to persuade an existing XP installation, not on the JMicron controller, to recognise the change from IDE to RAID/IDE. My method was:
Disable System Restore
Delete all copies of jgogo.sys and jraid.sys in %windir%
Uninstall the 36x controller in Device Mangler
Reboot
Change the controller from IDE to RAID/IDE in the BIOS if not already done
The Found New Hardware wizard should kick in so point it to the drivers
The FNH wizard then picks up the IDE channels as well as the RAID
Re-enable System Restore
Simply reloading the drivers isn't enough; XP has to be forced to redetect the controller in its changed state. I'm currently Ghosting C: on my main PC so I can try to get the 363 into AHCI mode once I've got a backup.
Jonathan
I've done a bit of experimenting on the test partition and have managed to persuade an existing XP installation, not on the JMicron controller, to recognise the change from IDE to RAID/IDE. My method was:
Disable System Restore
Delete all copies of jgogo.sys and jraid.sys in %windir%
Uninstall the 36x controller in Device Mangler
Reboot
Change the controller from IDE to RAID/IDE in the BIOS if not already done
The Found New Hardware wizard should kick in so point it to the drivers
The FNH wizard then picks up the IDE channels as well as the RAID
Re-enable System Restore
Simply reloading the drivers isn't enough; XP has to be forced to redetect the controller in its changed state. I'm currently Ghosting C: on my main PC so I can try to get the 363 into AHCI mode once I've got a backup.
Jonathan
This all seems far too much hassle to be worth even bothering with doesnt it?
I wonder if anyone can verify if its at all worth it?
I mean, when it was working for me, I had a good 120MB/s rate when I used HDTACH to test it, and this was encouraging, and Windows did indeed boot up a little quicker, and defragging was a breeze, but other apps didnt really seem to have THAT much of a boost at all... Not enough to warrant such a hassle to get it all on anyway, and what if Windows needed to be repaired in any way, then are we going to be stuffed?
Im thinking that if you just want to add a pair of drives on there, and just use them as IDE and let Windows set them up as RAID, then you might as well do that?
I wonder if anyone can verify if its at all worth it?
I mean, when it was working for me, I had a good 120MB/s rate when I used HDTACH to test it, and this was encouraging, and Windows did indeed boot up a little quicker, and defragging was a breeze, but other apps didnt really seem to have THAT much of a boost at all... Not enough to warrant such a hassle to get it all on anyway, and what if Windows needed to be repaired in any way, then are we going to be stuffed?
Im thinking that if you just want to add a pair of drives on there, and just use them as IDE and let Windows set them up as RAID, then you might as well do that?
I've given up. The method I described didn't work on my DS4, it just blue-screened, so I'm just going to live with IDE mode on that one. I'll do a clean build on the S3 and get it right this time. I think it was worth doing as I proved it could be made to work and that it's more of an XP/drivers interaction than the boards themselves. I'm now going to get my life out of the cupboard and take it for a drink.....
Jonathan
Jonathan