GA-P35-DS3R RAID Help.

[slipd]

Hey guys,

I need a bit of help setting up my new board...

I’ve got my two intended RAID0 drives connected to the first of the 3 orange sata interfaces and they have been recognised and setup okay in that configuration screen that comes up when you boot (Incidentally, can you turn that off or make it invisible or something ?) and I’m currently formatting.

The array was recognised by Windows after I installed the Intel driver during the Windows setup and everything appears to be running smoothly now

My sata DVD is plugged into one of the purple sata slots and seems to be working okay.

What I want to know is, and what confused me in the first place were, the 2 different RAID choices? I think you have Intel and a separate Gigabyte controller to choose from? I’ve used the Intel one for my disk array and the DVD is on the Gigabyte – does that sound alright? I’d like to get it sorted before I progress too far with the build

Cheers,

SW.

 

[hohum]

Yeah, the Gigabyte one is the Jmicron controller. Gigabyte mainly add it because it allows the motherboard to feature an IDE port (not supported by Intel's newer chipsets), but as a bonus also allows another completely seperate RAID configuration if so wanted. The Intel controller is better for the task though, so you're fine.

 

[slipd]

Thanks for the reply mate!

I thought everything was going a bit too smoothly – I’ve hit my first snag

Basically I get as far as finishing the format when I’m confronted by a, “Insert the disk labelled: Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Into drive A:”

My driver’s disk that I made (With the latest drivers on the Gigabyte site) doesn’t seem to want to read at this stage – even though the disk did with when I initially installed the Intel RAID driver? The only option that works is F3, and that’s exit

I’m using a USB floppy drive for the first time for a RAID driver install, could that be the issue here

SW.

PS. I’ve got my memory (2x 1 GB) in slots 1 and 3 – is that okay for dual channel? It says in the BIOS screen that the memory ‘runs at dual channel interleaved’ – is that dual channel proper, or some sort of compromise?

 

[hohum]

Try the latest floppy disk package on Intel's website instead, as it's a newer driver than what Gigabyte have on their site.

Edit: Dual channel interleaved is correct.

 

[slipd]

Thanks for the reply mate!

I tried an internal floppy and sorted the problem

I paid £15 for a USB floppy drive that I only intended to use for this situation and it didn’t work?!

Oh well, at least its okay now.

Cheers,

SW.