Do u have to use a driver disk as if u were going to use raid when installing the OS? I ask this since I cant boot the OS when my HDDs are in AHCI or Raid mode only in IDE mode; but I cant install intel matrix driver when in IDE mode. Catch 22.
ICH9R controller on p35-dq6
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Yup, anything other than plain IDE mode in the BIOS and you'll need a driver at OS install.
* If you have more than one SATA controller on the board you can, with a bit of jiggery pokery, convert from IDE to AHCI mode by installing the Matrix driver with the disk on the other controller but that only works for single disk operation, not RAID.
* If you have more than one SATA controller on the board you can, with a bit of jiggery pokery, convert from IDE to AHCI mode by installing the Matrix driver with the disk on the other controller but that only works for single disk operation, not RAID.
Hi, actually it depends upon the OS you are installing. Vista has built in drivers for the ICH8R, for example, although whether it has the ICH9R's I'm not sure, you could aways try. All other OS's will require either a F6 driver disc or a slipstreamed CD....
ChrisC
ChrisC
jbloggs said:I would think that Vista may supply the drivers as well for the ICH9R controller when setting up RAID.
I'm 99% sure it doesn't.
I can't see why it would - it's asking an OS to "know" about a hardware device six months before that hardware device was released.
Sure Microsoft get advanced notice on hardware if they want it, however it seems unlikely an OS released in December 2006 will have built-in support for a hardware device released in May 2007.