KT7 Raid and Hard Drives

[GregRad]

I am looking to play with the RAID function a little and I currently have a maxtor and an ibm drive. I have heard a few problems with the maxtors and the raid controller, whats the status on that? What version of the drivers do I need? I have the UL bios already. Am I crazy mixing IBM and Maxtor drives?
Cheers
Greg

 

[Possessed Freak]

what problems with maxtor hard drives? I have had massive problems running raid with two maxtors, any links would help.

 

[GregRad]

I THOUGHT I read it here. What I remember is you need the latest bios, UL and the latest High Point driver to have a chance at maxtor drives functioning. I do not remember the revision number. After that, there is still an issue with some models of maxtor hard drives. I wish I could help out more, if I can track down a link, I will post it!
OK! I found something for you....
http://www.hexus.net/kt7.shtml
In this review they mention the new bios fixes a compatability probelm with maxtor drives.
http://www.apushardware.com/faqs/kt7faq/kt7faq.htm
This guy also has some neat stuff...
Cheers
Greg

 

[Possessed Freak]

thanks, those faq's are useful.

 

[billyjak]

The latest Bios is the Uz301b1.bin and Hotpoint drivers are HOT103_bwin found on Abits Tiawan sight under Beta.
They work great for me

 

[siroutbak]

<< Am I crazy mixing IBM and Maxtor drives? >>



Yes, you do not want to mix brand/model number when creating a raid array or the performance could be severly hurt.

 

[htown]

Once you have them raided.... zip zoom bing bang.
You'll be a happy camper.

Post you result when your done

 

[GregRad]

I think I am going to hold off on mixing the drives. A couple of people have warned against it. I have an extra maxtor 20gig now which matches the 20gig I have in my server so I think I will raid that sucker. Mirror it. I just wanted to play with my personal computer first, the server being down cost me money.
Cheers
Greg