Here is my PC's config:
Asus P5B-E Plus, E6600, 2GB ram, Bios set SATA as ACHI.
SATA1 connected with an IDE-to-SATA adaptor to an IBM 80GB IDE HDD. This is the bootable Windows XP Pro system disk. Driver for ACHI already installed.
SATA3,4,5 connected to 3 Seagate 320GB SATA2 HDDs. Jumper for 3Gbps all removed.
SATA 6 connected to a Sony SATA DVD writer.
JMicron IDE 0 connected to an IBM 120GB IDE HDD and IDE 1 connected to an IBM 60GB IDE HDD.
eSATA also connected to an external box with a Seagate 320GB SATA2 HDD for offline archiving purpose.
The above config. run happily for all HDDs as standalone ones under Win XP Pro.
Then as I wanna setup a Raid 1 volume on 2 320GB HDDs (one HDD already have 3 partitions with data on them), I'd changed the Bios to set SATA as Raid (Not yet create the raid volume). While all the HDDs can be recognized as non-Raid disk under the Intel Raid Manager, the 80GB HDD just can't boot up. I got "Disk read error,... press ctrl-alt-del to reboot" message. BTW, when changed back to ACHI, everything worked fine back.
Is this normal situation? Is that I need to do anything from scratch for my HDDs setup in raid?
Many thks,
Leon
Asus P5B-E Plus, E6600, 2GB ram, Bios set SATA as ACHI.
SATA1 connected with an IDE-to-SATA adaptor to an IBM 80GB IDE HDD. This is the bootable Windows XP Pro system disk. Driver for ACHI already installed.
SATA3,4,5 connected to 3 Seagate 320GB SATA2 HDDs. Jumper for 3Gbps all removed.
SATA 6 connected to a Sony SATA DVD writer.
JMicron IDE 0 connected to an IBM 120GB IDE HDD and IDE 1 connected to an IBM 60GB IDE HDD.
eSATA also connected to an external box with a Seagate 320GB SATA2 HDD for offline archiving purpose.
The above config. run happily for all HDDs as standalone ones under Win XP Pro.
Then as I wanna setup a Raid 1 volume on 2 320GB HDDs (one HDD already have 3 partitions with data on them), I'd changed the Bios to set SATA as Raid (Not yet create the raid volume). While all the HDDs can be recognized as non-Raid disk under the Intel Raid Manager, the 80GB HDD just can't boot up. I got "Disk read error,... press ctrl-alt-del to reboot" message. BTW, when changed back to ACHI, everything worked fine back.
Is this normal situation? Is that I need to do anything from scratch for my HDDs setup in raid?
Many thks,
Leon
