Asus, P5K RAID setup

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Boba & Ilinka

Please, help me.



Motherboard is P5K, JMicron SATA controller

Vista home premium 32b



First of all, were to hook HD-s. There are S1, S2, S3, S4 and external SATA
connector

How to set raid step by step?

I followed user guide and I see only one drive when I come to Step "Create
RAID Disk Drive"!

Thanks for help.



Boba Vankufer
 
Somewhere on teh interweb Boba & Ilinka typed:
Please, help me.



Motherboard is P5K, JMicron SATA controller

Vista home premium 32b



First of all, were to hook HD-s. There are S1, S2, S3, S4 and
external SATA connector

How to set raid step by step?

I followed user guide and I see only one drive when I come to Step
"Create RAID Disk Drive"!

Thanks for help.



Boba Vankufer
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Did you hit 'F6' during the Windows install and instal the Intel Matrix
Storage drivers? They are needed for RAID. AFAIK the JMicron controller only
supports the eSATA connectors and the IDE, the reast are run off the Intel
Southbridge (ICH9R?). To impliment RAID the drivers needed to be installed
from floppy at the start of Windows install.

There are work-arounds on the interweb for editing the registry
after-the-fact but I can't say how good they are.

HTH
 
~misfit~ said:
Somewhere on teh interweb Boba & Ilinka typed:

Did you hit 'F6' during the Windows install and instal the Intel Matrix
Storage drivers? They are needed for RAID. AFAIK the JMicron controller
only supports the eSATA connectors and the IDE, the reast are run off the
Intel Southbridge (ICH9R?). To impliment RAID the drivers needed to be
installed from floppy at the start of Windows install.

There are work-arounds on the interweb for editing the registry
after-the-fact but I can't say how good they are.

HTH
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Shaun, there are no settings for Intel raid in the bios. In Vista during the
installation it ask you for the drivers, but I couldn't see 2 drives when
setting raid in bios.

Thanks any way.

Boba Vankufer
 
Boba said:
Shaun, there are no settings for Intel raid in the bios. In Vista during the
installation it ask you for the drivers, but I couldn't see 2 drives when
setting raid in bios.

Thanks any way.

Boba Vankufer
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The P5K motherboard has a four port vanilla ICH9. There
is no RAID on the Intel, when the chip has only four ports.
So S1,S2,S3,S4 are not RAID.

In the P5K manual, the RAID function exists on the Jmicron
controller. One drive connector is internal (SATA_E2, on the
left of the motherboard picture in the manual), and one
drive connector is external (F_ESATA on the back I/O area).
This is not convenient for building a RAID0. (The intent is
to allow making RAID1 backup disks.) You'll have to snake
the SATA cable back into the computer, if you hope to use
it with two internal SATA disks.

The manual has full instructions for setting up RAID on the
Jmicron JMB363. The manual says to set the Jmicron to RAID
mode in the BIOS. Two disks must be connected, in order to
be able to press <control-J> at the start of the BIOS, to
enter the Jmicron RAID setup in the BIOS. At that point, you
can declare an array in the BIOS setup.

Then, when Windows is installing from the Microsoft install CD,
you'll need to press F6 and offer the Jmicron RAID driver.

Section 5.5 of the Asus manual, describes how to make
a RAID driver floppy. The Asus motherboard CD has a "Make Disk"
option in the menu, and that can be used to prepare the
necessary floppy diskette on another computer. If that
doesn't work, "explore" the motherboard CD and look for
a MakeDisk utility. When MakeDisk is finished, you should see
a file something like "txtsetup.oem" at the top level of the
floppy.

Paul
 
Somewhere on teh interweb Paul typed:
The P5K motherboard has a four port vanilla ICH9. There
is no RAID on the Intel, when the chip has only four ports.
So S1,S2,S3,S4 are not RAID.

In the P5K manual, the RAID function exists on the Jmicron
controller. One drive connector is internal (SATA_E2, on the
left of the motherboard picture in the manual), and one
drive connector is external (F_ESATA on the back I/O area).
This is not convenient for building a RAID0. (The intent is
to allow making RAID1 backup disks.) You'll have to snake
the SATA cable back into the computer, if you hope to use
it with two internal SATA disks.

The manual has full instructions for setting up RAID on the
Jmicron JMB363. The manual says to set the Jmicron to RAID
mode in the BIOS. Two disks must be connected, in order to
be able to press <control-J> at the start of the BIOS, to
enter the Jmicron RAID setup in the BIOS. At that point, you
can declare an array in the BIOS setup.

Then, when Windows is installing from the Microsoft install CD,
you'll need to press F6 and offer the Jmicron RAID driver.

Section 5.5 of the Asus manual, describes how to make
a RAID driver floppy. The Asus motherboard CD has a "Make Disk"
option in the menu, and that can be used to prepare the
necessary floppy diskette on another computer. If that
doesn't work, "explore" the motherboard CD and look for
a MakeDisk utility. When MakeDisk is finished, you should see
a file something like "txtsetup.oem" at the top level of the
floppy.
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Ahh, thanks Paul. My internet can be slow so I just assumed (I know...) that
the P5K had the same southbridge as my P5K-E, an ICH9R rather than the
vanilla ICH9.
 
Paul said:
The P5K motherboard has a four port vanilla ICH9. There
is no RAID on the Intel, when the chip has only four ports.
So S1,S2,S3,S4 are not RAID.

In the P5K manual, the RAID function exists on the Jmicron
controller. One drive connector is internal (SATA_E2, on the
left of the motherboard picture in the manual), and one
drive connector is external (F_ESATA on the back I/O area).
This is not convenient for building a RAID0. (The intent is
to allow making RAID1 backup disks.) You'll have to snake
the SATA cable back into the computer, if you hope to use
it with two internal SATA disks.

The manual has full instructions for setting up RAID on the
Jmicron JMB363. The manual says to set the Jmicron to RAID
mode in the BIOS. Two disks must be connected, in order to
be able to press <control-J> at the start of the BIOS, to
enter the Jmicron RAID setup in the BIOS. At that point, you
can declare an array in the BIOS setup.

Then, when Windows is installing from the Microsoft install CD,
you'll need to press F6 and offer the Jmicron RAID driver.

Section 5.5 of the Asus manual, describes how to make
a RAID driver floppy. The Asus motherboard CD has a "Make Disk"
option in the menu, and that can be used to prepare the
necessary floppy diskette on another computer. If that
doesn't work, "explore" the motherboard CD and look for
a MakeDisk utility. When MakeDisk is finished, you should see
a file something like "txtsetup.oem" at the top level of the
floppy.
Click to expand...


Paul, thanks. I instaled vista on one drive and the other will be for data.

Boba Vankufer
 
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