Re: Non-RAID Disk on SATA connectors?
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:52:12 GMT
In article <g7gfg.155679$Gj2.34540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jackpine) wrote:
I have an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to install the following drives:
a) One HDD as a boot drive.
b) Two HDDs as data drive, configured as RAID 0?
I believe that for item b), I can connect two SATA HDDs to any two of
the four exising SATA connectors and set them up as RAID 0.
I am not sure about item a). Do I have to use the single SATA
connector located near the cpu, or do I have to use one of the red
EIDE connectors? Does it matter if the boot drive is SATA? Also, do
I have to install a driver to do this?
The single SATA connector near the CPU, is connected to the SIL3132.
Yes, you could use it if you wanted, but you would need to add
a driver by pressing F6 when Windows installs. You can also use
any of the four connectors next to the Southbirdge.
You can place three drives on the Southbridge, by using three of the
four connectors near the Southbridge. The Southbridge is ICH7R in
this case.
The way I would do the install:
1) Connect the boot drive to one of the four SATA connectors.
Do not connect any other hard drives at this time. In the BIOS,
"Configure SATA As" [RAID]. "Onboard Serial-ATA BootROM" should
be [Enabled], to be consistent. Since you are going to
boot from a single drive, the second of these settings might
not be absolutely necessary, but I'd set it anyway. (It could be
that the Intel RAID BIOS module might not load without it ?
Not sure.)
2) Install Windows. Press F6 and install the Intel RAID driver.
This will prepare you for any possibility, instead of resticting
you to just IDE style operation. To make a floppy with the
necessary RAID driver, see section 5.6 in the manual "Creating
a RAID Driver Disk". You can carry out the instructions in
section 5.6 on another computer, by browsing in
\Drivers\Chipset\Intel\Makedisk of the motherboard CD. Use
the floppy prepared by the Makedisk, during the Windows install,
after pressing F6.
3) Finish preparing the machine, install at least SP1 if it isn't
already on there.
4) Now, you should be finished with the basic install. Time to
shut down from Windows and power off.
5) Install two more disks, using two of the four SATA connectors
near the Southbridge. Power up the machine, press <control I>
early in POST, to enter the Intel RAID BIOS screen. Follow
the instructions in section 5.5.2 of the manual, to install a
RAID 0 data array. Be very careful that you have selected the
correct two drives, before making them into a RAID 0. Once you
exit the Intel RAID BIOS screen (and check the boot order to make
sure you are still booting from the single drive), you should
be able to use Disk Management in Windows, to see the newly
created RAID 0 volume.
The purpose of only connecting the boot drive in step (1), is
to make sure that the Windows installer places _nothing_ on the
RAID drives. The Windows installer cannot screw up drive(s) that
are not connected.
HTH,
Paul
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