IC7-MAX3 Raid Issue

lagunaturbo · 29 Mar 2008 at 15:25

I have an Abit IC7-MAX3 motherboard with 3 WD 5000 AAKS (500GB) hard drives connected in raid 0 on the sillicon image 3114 controller the problem i am having is that i boot into the Windows XP setup press F6 and install the raid driver windows then detects the 1.5 TB logical drive formats it and installs the installation files once complete it restarts the system which would normally go to the second step of the setup but it will not boot into the drive all it does is restart the cd and start the whole setup again.

However if i only set two HDD's as raid 0 and the other on its own all is fine :confused:

Can any one tell me why this is happening as i would really like all three drives in raid 0. Sorry for the long post.

ns400r · 29 Mar 2008 at 16:29

Is it down to the Service Pack version of Windows your installing. Does your CD have Service Pack 2 intergrated?

lagunaturbo · 29 Mar 2008 at 16:50

Yes I think it is service pack 2 but how would this affect the raid set up not booting?

ns400r · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:08

lagunaturbo said:
Yes I think it is service pack 2 but how would this affect the raid set up not booting?

Limit on the size of hard drive that can be accessed.

lagunaturbo · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:14

Sorry im a bit new to raid. So what is the largest single drive that xp will support?

Cob · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:17

SP2 has no limit (well not one that we'll hit for quite some time).

Pre-SP1 was 130gb or summit.

lagunaturbo · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:20

Cob said:
SP2 has no limit (well not one that we'll hit for quite some time).

Pre-SP1 was 130gb or summit.

If that is the case then im still confused as to why i can install xp onto a 2 disk raid 0 setup but not on a 3 disk one

Cob · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:31

XP has always been a PITA to RAID. Try asking in the hard drive forum as they usually know their stuff.