Smart response

[Hawksworth]

Hi

I'm trying to install smart reponse from my gigabyte software and I get the message "This is not RAID HDD. Setup will be abort". Is smart response only for raid configured hdds?

regards

 

[Surveyor]

Hi

I'm trying to install smart reponse from my gigabyte software and I get the message "This is not RAID HDD. Setup will be abort". Is smart response only for raid configured hdds?

regards

No, but the Intel SATA controller needs to in RAID mode even if the drives aren't in a RAID array.

You can try changing to RAID mode and see if the system still boots.

If it doesn't change it back to IDE or AHCI mode (whichever you're currently using) and come back for further advice.

 

[SlugForAButt]

Check this video out mate. Should answer all your questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7kkOHa0iw

 

[Hawksworth]

Thanks for the replies fellas. I switched to raid but my computer won't start up properly, it gets as far as the windows logo then keeps restarting.

Any ideas?

 

[Orcvader]

Happens to me as well. But since it was a new install all I just did was change the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID and reinstalled Windows again. That sorted it out. Decided SSD caching was not for me though as I don't have that many things that need the extra speed.

 

[littlepuppy]

There is a way round it, happened to me, suggest you do some googling and work it out, you need to go back to your old settings, make some registry setting updates in windaz, then reboot with raid enabled again, hey presto.

 

[Hawksworth]

Hmm, seems kind of odd that the system was designed around this new technology but I can't easily enable it.

 

[skyripper]

Thanks for the replies fellas. I switched to raid but my computer won't start up properly, it gets as far as the windows logo then keeps restarting.

Any ideas?

Try this...

Once you've got the Raid drivers installed, theres a registry fix to change them from 'start with the rest of windows' to 'start at boot time' which will get you in business.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\ Start [REG_DWORD] set it to 0 ('start at boot time').

Set BIOS to AHCI, make the change, Set the BIOS to RAID, reboot, see how it goes.