RAID-0 Setup

KeizzerSoze · 26 Jan 2009 at 15:54

I have been trying to do a RAID-0 setup for the past couple of days. and have been unsuccessful in all my attempts. My problem is that i do not have a floppy drive and when i try to make the raid disc it does not recognise my USB pen device.

I have tried 2 other USB devices to make the RAID disc with but have been unsuccssfull. (formated the USB stick In FAT, FAT32, and NTFS but still nothing)

I read the manual and it says that i can make the disc on a USB drive for Vista installation.

I am trying to install vista 64.

If you can guide me to a solution I would apreciate it.
FYI my motherboard is a M3A32-MVP Deluxe WI/FI
and my two hard drives are Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

remy87 · 26 Jan 2009 at 22:18

usually when you setup/create your raid is that you press "ctrl+i" on boot
and from there you can do whatever raid you want.
I suggest you dig through your mobo instruction booklet for this since I'm not enterily sure about ctrl+i could be different.
Doesn' hurt to try though.

After that just install Vista like you usually do since all vista disks have the included drivers for raids.

KeizzerSoze · 26 Jan 2009 at 22:40

Thanks My Mobo is Ctrl + M

I got it all setup now.
I had the SATA cables in the wrong port (DUH)
There was a misprint on the instructions or on the MOBO.

In the instructions booklet it says connect to port 1 and 2 but i had to connect to port 5 and 6 to get it to work. (misprint? maybe!)

jrwagh333 · 11 Mar 2009 at 21:41

Sorry to bring up an old topic.
I also have this board and may RAID-0 in the future.
There are 4 Black SATA ports and 2 Red SATA ports. If memory serves, one does AMD-RAID and the other is Marvel?
If so which one should I use?

Also would it be possible to run 2 separate RAID-0 arrays on the AMD SouthBridge?