Setting up RAID using Asus P5K-Premium

WillSpengler

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Anyone got any advice on how best to set this up?

Have :

2x 320Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.11's

and

2x 500Gb Samsung F1's


I'd like to stick the 320Gb drives in Raid0. Install the OS, software and games on them. And the 500Gb drives in Raid1 for music etc.

I've read the manual but I dont really understand it. There is normal raid and intel raid or something, which I never knew there were different kinds. Or does this mean that the raid is controlled by a different chip on the mobo?
 
Intel - press CTRL-I on boot to enter RAID menu and create a RAID-0 disk.

Make sure you have the RAID drivers on a floppy for XP or on a flash stick for Vista to hand as these will be needed when installing the OS.
 
The Intel ones. I have the P5K wifi and it has 6 intel SATA ports (4 red, 2 black) and 2 Jmicron e-sata ports which support RAID. The latter are rubbish and I have disabled the Jmicron controller.

Make sure your Intel SATA ports are set to "RAID" (read manual), then when prompted on boot up press Ctrl + I to enter the Intel RAID bios and set up your RAID 0 and RAID 1.
 
Cool, cheers guys :)

Don't know about the floppy thing tho, I remember when I first got the computer im on now it had some sata drivers on a floppy, but I dont think there was a floppy with the Asus.

Fobose, do you know the reasoning behind two of the sata ports being black?
 
Easy, just head along to Asus website, and select your mobo.

In the download section there is a download for RAID drivers.

Download the latest .exe. and extract to a machine that has a floppy drive or USB flash stick (flash stick for Vista only)

If using floppy then Insert a blanks formatted floppy

Run the .exe and this copies all the raid drivers you need to your floppy or flash stick.

ok back to your new RAID machine. One you have selected RAID 0 as above, then install windows as normal. When it asks for third party driver (f6 for XP), then insert your disk (XP) or flsh stick (Vista) and select the intel RAID drivers (make sure you select Intel RAID drivers and not the standard Intel disk controler drivers - there are 4 in the list). and that's it.. done. Windows will install as normal.
 
WillSpengler said:
Fobose, do you know the reasoning behind two of the sata ports being black?
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My manual says when using IDE mode on the SATA connectors (single drive), to use ports 1 2 and 5 for primary boot drive, the black ones it has listed as "slave".

Have a look in yours under the "Connectors" -> "internal connectors" section for more details.

If your using Vista you wont need to install any RAID drivers, vista detects them and it just works :) (Did for me anyway)
 
The Asus P35 boards are utter crap. RAID implementation is half arsed at best. I RMA'ed 3 boards before getting an Abit IP35 - which works perfectly.

Google SATA RAID Asus P5K and there's a ton of other people having the same problems. 2 drives, fine, more than 2 = problems.

Good luck.
 
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