GA-8KNXP ITE Raid Problems

[stephenvv]

My system is up and running just fine. I have two Western Digital SE drives connected to the GigaRAID ITE Raid connectors, a 200 MB and 250 MB. I'm running in ATA mode, not RAID mode.

Drives are recognized just fine, but any file copies of more than one file or more than just a few KB, and I get a variety of errors in the Windows XP SP1 event viewer after copies bombs with a "paging i/o error:

Event ID 26: The driver has detected device \Device\SCSI\iteraid1 has old or out of date firmware. Reduced performance may result.

Evenit ID 51: An error was detected on Device \Device\HardDisk3\D during a paging operation.

Tried various copies, moves etc. Other drives in sytem work fine. Moved both WD to regular IDE connectors using same cable and all operations work flawlessly.

Update ITE drives and MB Bios off Gigabyte site, emailed them, but have heard nothing.

Any clues?

 

[sumrtym]

Just to clarify, you did NOT install the RAID drivers (F6) during windows setup, right?

Sounds odd. Haven't heard of anyone else with the same difficulties. I'm buying one of those boards, but I'm planning on using 2 WD2000JB drives in RAID 0 for video capture and editing (maybe for downloading if it's much faster than to single disk).

 

[stephenvv]

Nope, I installed the Intel drivers as I'm running two Raptors RAID 0. They are working most excellently.

 

[harddrive747]

I would have to say check with Western Digital to see if you can update the firmware. I would also check at Microsoft and GigaRaid to see if anything is up.

After that, I don't know what to suggest.

Sorry

 

[stephenvv]

I got Gigabyte on the phone and talked to them for a few minutes. They think it's a jumper setting related to single drive vs. cable select. I will try this evening.

 

[sumrtym]

Seems like cable select always causes problems. As a general rule, I think you should take every drive jumper off cable select and put it to the appropriate setting.

 

[stephenvv]

I actually have the jumpers off, they are wanting me to put cable select on - which I never use. Go figure.

 

[stephenvv]

UPDATE:

GigaRAID just was never happy with WD drives and large files copies. Bought SIG SATA adapters and both drives are happy on the SI SATA. My guess is a BIOS update will be required to fix it.

 

[MrMeyhem]

I also have two 120gb wd hd's(8mb), running em in raid0 on a sinxp1394 board.
They are working fine..but waaay to slow. Gettin a score of 25000 in sisoft sandra when running that benchmark.

Anyone know what could cause this low score, should be much higher.

I have installed the latest drivers and tried different bios(even bigtoe's modded bios) but I cant get any better results seems like the disks arn't running in a ata133 mode cause they should get a much better score.

I have never tried raid before so I might have done some "newbie-mistake" ..lol



Please..if you have any ideas, please let me know.....cant stand knowing how slow my raid is =/