Onboard Raid Controller (intel P35 boards)

Mercutio

Mercutio

Mercutio

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Just setting up a gigabyte P35 based board. The onboard raid seems to be rather slow at sorting things out on bootup (coming from an nforce board where its pretty much instant) is this normal?

Is there any way to turn on raid without the new native SATA controller (cant remember the acronym - ICHR?) handling things? From reading around the only benefits seem to be native command queuing etc?
 
Tell me about it. What a pain to keep trying to get into the bios or do a quick reboot. Nforce Raid was a lot quicker on the boot! :mad:
 
If you have no devices attached to the jmicron (cont), ie SATA or IDE, you can disable that which will allow the machine to boot quicker. :)
 
Explain this last bit please?

I get the jmicron controller and from how you've worded that I guess this is the purple connectors. Unfortunately I need to make use of IDE CD-ROM (even tho im not sure how ill ever get the cable to reach both my drives) but are you saying if I switch to SATA optical drives I get a much faster boot?
 
Mercutio said:
Explain this last bit please?....are you saying if I switch to SATA optical drives I get a much faster boot?
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If you get SATA optical devices, and attach them to the ICH9R controller, then disable the jmicron, the system will boot faster (how many seconds are knocked of the boot time I am not sure), as it removes that controller from the boot process...

Personally, the longer boot time is not a problem for me...:)
 
Is the jmicron the purple or the yellow ports? I only have 2 SATA devices so I actually looked for a way to switch one of the two controllers off in the BIOS but couldn't find an option to...
 
The purple ports are the JMicron ports. You can disable them and the IDE socket by disabling the Onboard SATA/IDE Device option in the Integrated Peripherals menu.
 
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