MSI K8N Neo2 Raid problems

jcav5

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I was wondering what the proper configuration would be (bios and physical connections) for my system that has 4 SATA drives and 2 cd-rom drives. Right now I have 2 drives SATA1 and SATA2 in raid 0 and the other two SATA3 and SATA4 in raid 1. My cd drives are on IDE channel 1 in master and slave config. My master cd rom is very slow and I get an error from the nvidia storage controller that a service has to shut down, but yet everything still works. I disable both cd-roms (channel 1) and the error does not come up????
 

Ice9

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I've been having problems with SATA on this board too. Basically, the performance is piss poor.

With dual raptors on this board, I get 57MB/sec throughput in Sandra. On the Gigabyte 939, I get 106MB/sec.

I have the SATA drives on SATA1 and SATA2 (though I tried 3&4 as well, and combinations of 1/3, 2/4, 1/4, etc). My 2 PATA drives are on the Primary IDE channel (Jumpered CS/Cable Select), and my DVDRW is on the secondary IDE channel (middle connector, also jumpered CS).

On the Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 I have it set up the same exact way, but I get 2X the performance.

What nforce drivers did you use to install during the F6 portion of setup? The ones from MSI's site or the ones from nvidia's site?

-k
 

jcav5

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I used what came with the motherboard it says nforce3 SATA raid driver. I get around 100 in sandra and 130 in pcpistop, but I think that there is a problem with my cd rom it seems slow. I get that error nvraidservice has encountered an error and needs to shut down when I first come up in windows.

BTW you have basically the same rig as I do, but your memory is kicking the living piss out of mine. Are you over clocked? I get like 5300 on both I have (2x 512) ocz pc3500el

What is even more funny I had the same "old rig" that u did p4c800 and 3.4c strange....
 

jcav5

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Does your cd/dvd roms come up in your raid bios when it scans the arrays?