ECS KN1 Extreme - Need help w/ RAID 1 Setup

[genius99]

Hi all, I just bought the ECS KN1 Extreme with two 80.0 7200RPM SATA WD Hard Drives.
I'm having trouble getting the RAID 1 setup on it.

I plugged in my 2 hard drives into the SATA 1 and SATA 2 ports on the MB. I left the jumpers as default from the factory.

My BIOS is able to see the 2 hard drives on channels 2 and 3.

When I go into the BIOS in the RAID Config and enable the RAID, do I choose SATA 1 Primary and SATA 2 Primary as both enabled?

Any tips?

I will give it another shot, and yes I have downloaded the NVIDIA Raid and SIS180 Manuals.

thanks

 

[rexxe]

I have the same board and am using RAID 1, can you describe the exact problems you are having?

--Rexxe

 

[genius99]

Hi Rexxe,

My computer had 1 IDE drive, and 2 SATA drives. I installed Windows before I configured the RAID.

I removed the IDE drive after copying the data to the SATA drive with Windows on it.

I configured the RAID in the NVIDIA RAID Utility, it says status is healthy.

When I go into the SIS RAID Card BIOS Setting Utility, it does not list any drives.

In the CMOS Setup Utility, I put RAID Enabled, and Enabled all of these:
SATA 1 Primary
SATA 1 Secondary
SATA 2 Primary
SATA 2 Secondary

Do I have an incorrect setup?

Thanks

Ray

 

[rexxe]

Sounds like you have everything correct. The SiS RAID will have no drives because it uses SATA 5 & 6 only; SATA 1-4 are used solely by the nForce RAID. What makes you think that the RAID is not working?

 

[genius99]

Ok cool, I didn't know that the SiS RAID only uses SATA 5 & 6 only and that SATA 1-4 are only used by the nForce RAID :Q

Well when my computer boots, it says missing disk or insert disk.

I think I know what happened, when I installed Windows prior to setting up the Mirror, I installed the RAID driver for the SiS RAID.

So I probably need to resetup and reinstall Windows with using the NVIDIA RAID Driver.

What's also weird is that when it created the mirror, it was almost instantaneous for it to become a healthy mirror. I'll probably install the NVIDIA RAID monitoring program.

thanks again!

 

[genius99]

Anyone have step-by-step instructions on setting up the RAID?

I am still having problems

Can I install Windows onto 1 SATA hard drive, and then add the 2nd hard drive later and setup the RAID in Windows?

When I enable the NVIDIA RAID, during POST, it doesn't show any hard drives present, is this correct?

I believe I have the Array setup correctly because it says Array status healthy. And I am able to install the NVIDIA RAID drivers during the Windows setup.

The problem I am having is, during the Windows setup it sees 2 hard drives and after formatting a drive, it never gets to copy files to the drive - it freezes.

I spent many hours and am out of ideas...

 

[genius99]

Ok, I'm going to give it another shot. I compiled a list of 10 steps at: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=32&threadid=1560623&enterthread=y

Hope it works