evga 680i board raid question

BigRon · 12 Jan 2007 at 19:13

When installing my 2 drives for raid, do i use 2 primary sata ports or 2 side by side which would be primary then secondary.

Also the port numbers do not seem to corrispond with what the manual says,are they number'd 6 towards top of board working down until 1n2 are piggy backed.

Jokester · 12 Jan 2007 at 19:15

You can use any pair as long as you enable the specific ports for RAID in the BIOS. And yeah the port numbers are all mixed up, use the drive list at BOOT to give you an idea of the numbering.

Jokester

BigRon · 12 Jan 2007 at 19:19

i thought that primary and secondary were a ide thing not a sata.
so there is no performance dif between them then.

tastyweat · 13 Jan 2007 at 01:17

BigRon said:
i thought that primary and secondary were a ide thing not a sata.
so there is no performance dif between them then.

Nope... all the ports effectively work off the same bus, each with their own channel.

For two drives - you can plug them into any two ports, raid them up and there will be no performance difference whichever ports you plug them into

m3lv1n · 14 Jan 2007 at 00:47

Jokester said:
You can use any pair as long as you enable the specific ports for RAID in the BIOS. And yeah the port numbers are all mixed up, use the drive list at BOOT to give you an idea of the numbering.

Jokester

Annoying isn't it I mean how hard is it to get the manual right.

BigRon · 14 Jan 2007 at 04:52

I thought there would have been info on jumpering on the board to,but only the basics, Not to impressed with evga board at moment,as it seems i got to rma it now.

tastyweat · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:06

m3lv1n said:
Annoying isn't it I mean how hard is it to get the manual right.

Manual doesn't say anything about what the op asked:

When installing my 2 drives for raid, do i use 2 primary sata ports or 2 side by side which would be primary then secondary.

Trox · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:17

BigRon said:
When installing my 2 drives for raid, do i use 2 primary sata ports or 2 side by side which would be primary then secondary.

Also the port numbers do not seem to corrispond with what the manual says,are they number'd 6 towards top of board working down until 1n2 are piggy backed.

What i done was plug the 2 raid drives into the SATA slots that face you on the motherboard, they are numbered 1 (top) to 4 (bot), i plugged them into 1 and 2. Enabled RAID in the bios and disabled 0 primary and 0 Secondary, enabled the other 4 , for 1 and 2.

Then set the RAID up in the raid options, i also use a third harddrive for backups which is connected into one of the two SATA slots on the side of the motherboard.

m3lv1n · 16 Jan 2007 at 18:50

I was actually replying to Jokester