vista and raid

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:20

how do i do it, before i try it and rooster it up, what do i need to download, what will i need?

2 SATA 160GB samsungs...

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:31

Should just need a CD/floppy/some kind of drive with the RAID drivers on. When Vista is installing it'll ask if you have any additional drivers before it starts the setup.

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:36

Craig321 said:
Should just need a CD/floppy/some kind of drive with the RAID drivers on. When Vista is installing it'll ask if you have any additional drivers before it starts the setup.

can you link me to the drivers, i had a quick look on microsofts sight, but gleaned nowt

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:38

bringerofdecay said:
can you link me to the drivers, i had a quick look on microsofts sight, but gleaned nowt

Put your motherboard model in to the manufacturers website and it should give you a list of latest drivers

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:39

Craig321 said:
Put your motherboard model in to the manufacturers website and it should give you a list of latest drivers

ahhh, ok, thanks...can i use a DVD to install them? (dont have floppy drive, or spare CD)

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:40

bringerofdecay said:
ahhh, ok, thanks...can i use a DVD to install them? (dont have floppy drive, or spare CD)

A bit of a waste putting ~1mb of files on a DVD, but yep you could probably use one

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:41

Craig321 said:
A bit of a waste putting ~1mb of files on a DVD, but yep you could probably use one

they're RW's

sheesh, asus homepage is slow....:/

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:43

bringerofdecay said:
they're RW's

Ah, cool

bringerofdecay said:
sheesh, asus homepage is slow....:/

Yup, it's sometimes super slow

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:46

Craig321 said:
Ah, cool

Yup, it's sometimes super slow

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

which one of these would i need...it's all so confusing if you've never done this kind of stuff before

do i just burn it to a disk, and then it will work straight of, no problem? or do i extract, then burn, or what?

edit: i'll be on 64bit vista...so that cuts it in half

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:49

Doesn't look like it's there

Are you sure your board supports RAID?

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:50

Craig321 said:
Doesn't look like it's there

Are you sure your board supports RAID?

yes

what am i looking for exactly?

there seems like a lot of raid drivers to choose from on that page, why aren't any suitable.

my motherboard is the asus P5W DH duluxe wifi, its pretty new, and comes with a jumper to switch the drives in 2 'special' sata ports into different raid arrays, could this mean i need not download a driver?

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:51

bringerofdecay said:
yes

That's strange, I can't see the RAID driver anywhere there

Saying that... it doesn't even list USB2 drivers :confused:

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:54

Craig321 said:
That's strange, I can't see the RAID driver anywhere there

Saying that... it doesn't even list USB2 drivers

:/

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:59

Check out the CD that came with the motherboard, it might have the drivers

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:01

Craig321 said:
Check out the CD that came with the motherboard, it might have the drivers

so i just stick that in before i install vista? or does it prompt before install?

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:02

bringerofdecay said:
so i just stick that in before i install vista? or does it prompt before install?

IIRC it asks you during the Vista install if you have any extra drivers that need to be installed before Vista gets installed, at that point put the CD in... but make sure the RAID drivers are actually on there before you start

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:04

Craig321 said:
IIRC it asks you during the Vista install if you have any extra drivers that need to be installed before Vista gets installed, at that point put the CD in... but make sure the RAID drivers are actually on there before you start

ok, the disk comes with the jmicron raid thingy, so i'm assuming thats it, i don't mind installing it not in raid, but raid would be nice, thanks for your help

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:13

bringerofdecay said:
ok, the disk comes with the jmicron raid thingy, so i'm assuming thats it, i don't mind installing it not in raid, but raid would be nice, thanks for your help

Ohhh, that's why it wasn't listed with your motherboard... it's a separate RAID card, right?

In that case stick the jmicron CD in when Vista asks you for additional drivers and you should be good to go

vincent1989 · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:16

Craig321 said:
Ohhh, that's why it wasn't listed with your motherboard... it's a separate RAID card, right?

In that case stick the jmicron CD in when Vista asks you for additional drivers and you should be good to go

ok mate...worth a shot anyway, got nothing to lose as i've got it all backed up on a 240gb HDD

just looked at my vista DVD for the first time, and all i can say is 'crap' its scratched to buggery

hope it works ffs

jbloggs · 4 Aug 2007 at 03:24

If you look Here your will see you motherboard has the "Intel ICH7R South Bridge" and supports "3 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1" on it. It is this controller you want to use rather than the "Jmicron" if you wish to boot from it.

Look on you installation CD for the "Intel Matrix Storage" drivers (or you can get them of the Intel website), once you find them you need to use the "make a floppy" facility to put them onto a Floppy disk, once you put them on a floppy, you can install them from that, or copy the drivers from the floppy onto a USB Flash drive (as you are doing a Vista installation), or you can forget about the floppy and USB flash drive and simply use the drivers (for the ICH7R controller) that are contained in Vista, so choose which method you wish to use. The (ICH7R) drivers will not run from a DVD or CD, and if you are doing an XP installation you will have to use a Floppy or slipstream them into the CD with nlite.

Put you DVD in your DVD rewriter, reboot enter BIOS, if you are using floppy or usb flash drive, set either one as 1st boot device as DVD rewriter, 2nd as Floppy/USB device and 3rd as HDD (if you are not using floppy or usb device, make HDD 2nd boot device), then set Enable RAID in BIOS, Onboard IDE Operate Mode - Enhanced, Enhanced Mode Support On - SATA, Configure SATA As Raid - Yes, Serial BootROM - Enabled, IDE Detect time out - 35.

You are best to have all other HDD disconnected except the 2 you wish to make a RAID setup on.

Now Save and Exit, then press CTRL + I to enter RAID setup utility, set up your stripe size etc, and then exit.

Then the installation will start, and it is then you will see this:

"Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or Raid driver.."

As soon as you see this press F6, make sure you don't miss it, the setup will find the ICH7R drivers, if you use the floppy or USB, do NOT remove it, as the setup will look for the drivers a 2nd time after a while. It is now continues like a normal OS installation.

As soon as it is finished and you desktop appears, install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (download the latest from Intel), then install the rest of the Intel Matrix Storage software from the CD, ie just run the .exe.

Install rest of drivers/antivirus etc.