Last Friday I bought 2 Asus P5K Pro motherboards. One for my desktop "main" PC, and one for my server upgrade. I also bought 4x 1Tb Samsung F1 drives to run in Raid 5 on the server. I was planning to use the ICH9 Intel MatrixRaid - although it's a bit slow, as a server it shouldn't have been a problem.
Build server - all kinds of problems recognising SATA drives under raid. I spend 48 hours building the array only to have it disappear on me because drives start dropping out on each reboot.
My PC works fine, all 3 hard drives recognised. I unplug them, plug in the 1Tb drives and bingo, works fine, recognises RAID array. I reboot 10-15 times, every time, ALL drives are recognised fine.
I phone up OCUK, return the "faulty" mobo under the DSR for a refund, order another P5K Pro.
P5K pro arrives (citylink managed to loose it for 24 hours). Exact same problem. Drives randomly falling off the BIOS scan every reboot.
Drives 0,2,3,4,5 are connected. This is what has been recognised each reboot:
0,2,3,5
0,2,3,5
0,2,4,5
0,3,4,5
0,2,4,5
0,2,4,5
0,3,4
I'm close to loosing it with this board. I'm going to RMA it ~~again~~ but am now getting worried about the second board in my system (although it appears to work fine now).
Should I return both boards and get something else? If so what?
Build server - all kinds of problems recognising SATA drives under raid. I spend 48 hours building the array only to have it disappear on me because drives start dropping out on each reboot.
My PC works fine, all 3 hard drives recognised. I unplug them, plug in the 1Tb drives and bingo, works fine, recognises RAID array. I reboot 10-15 times, every time, ALL drives are recognised fine.
I phone up OCUK, return the "faulty" mobo under the DSR for a refund, order another P5K Pro.
P5K pro arrives (citylink managed to loose it for 24 hours). Exact same problem. Drives randomly falling off the BIOS scan every reboot.
Drives 0,2,3,4,5 are connected. This is what has been recognised each reboot:
0,2,3,5
0,2,3,5
0,2,4,5
0,3,4,5
0,2,4,5
0,2,4,5
0,3,4
I'm close to loosing it with this board. I'm going to RMA it ~~again~~ but am now getting worried about the second board in my system (although it appears to work fine now).
Should I return both boards and get something else? If so what?