post your kt7 - raid problems here and the solutions!!

[Kill_Phil]

i just wanted to know what i might expect when buying a kt7-raid and what the fixes to these problems would be.. it allways makes things go smoother if you have the info beforehand =)

 

[Kill_Phil]

umm.. i know ppl have been having trouble with it...



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if you check these out... something seems fishy with maxtor hdd's... good thing i got western digitals =)
im guessing it has something to do with the highpoint controller in most the cases

i have a wd 10 gig and a wd 4.1 gig.. anyone think i might have a problem with these drives running not in raid?

and what is the advantage of using the highpoint controller with single drives? is there any?

thanks

 

[jonnyGURU]

Hmm... Here's all of the problems I've had in the last week with the board and the only solution was to REPLACE THE BOARD:

This week, out of 65 boards, 6 came back because

1 had a flaky IDE Controller (not the ATA100). BIOS would see drives on the IDE controller, but would ONLY see the drives on ATA100 after the board posted.

1 had blown up Durons and WASN'T the BIOS problem (the CPUs were week 25 and 31).

1 just kept locking up over and over.

1 was just plain dead as a doornail.

1 had a dead PS/2 mouse port.

1 had an ATA100 controller that was about as fast as an MFM drive AND a bad PS/2 mouse port.

I hope this doesn't keep up! This week alone, the RMA rate on these boards went from 5% to 9%! Maybe next week none will come back. Who knows.

 

[Kill_Phil]

gasp!
ok, so some more ata100 problems.. a dead board, which happens.. they are probably rushing them out, which is why so many are coming out bad.. and some bad ps2 ports..
well, i guess if your getting 9% bad boards, 91 % chance of getting a good board is not too shabby... i unless you take 9% fo 1 million.. which is way too much, from a companys point of view