Question RAID 1 on Sil 3112/VIA8237

[N3Star]

Hi, I am building myself a retro PC on Abit NF7-S v2 board. Everything works... except for RAID functions. My drives are a bit old - WD800JD-00HKA0 and WD800JD-60LSA0 (jumper on SATA-I) so I think RAID 1 is the suitable option. While the first one works nicely (HKA) the second one keeps dropping while installing a system - Win XP. Installer goes fine through the 1st part, then reboot, and the LSA drive dropped. On RAID 0 situation is kind of different. Windows installs normally, it boots for the first time and after reboot it stays on Windows loading screen. Same effect on Epox EP-8RDA3+, which I believe has the same SATA controller. Another thing worth noting is that both drives have perfect SMART - 0 bads, itp...

What do you guys think about this? Maybe the drives aren't compatible?

 

[mxnerd]

Those early days RAID cards are just craps. I had one.

Had difficulty detecting HDDs from time to time. Went to the trash can.

The point of building a retro WinXP PC using RAID in 2020?

 

[N3Star]

Purely for fun, though I wouldn't mind some reliability, that's why RAID.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Purely for fun, though I wouldn't mind some reliability, that's why RAID.

Nothing says "Reliability" like a 10-year-old Retro-PC motherboard, let me tell you that...

 

[N3Star]

Yep, you're right, it definitely isn't as good as new, but I still think that drives with +/- 40000 hours power on time on them will fail first (not counting any random accidents).

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Nothing says "Reliability" like a 10-year-old Retro-PC motherboard, let me tell you that...

Capacitor plague anyone...?

 

[N3Star]

Update: Through the night I have found other mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R, created RAID1 and... IT LIVES! On Win7 at least. So I guess 2 options left: 1. Sil 3112 and Via8237 chips are simply absolute and utter garbage and I need to get a new drive, 2. I've downloaded wrong drivers for installation - these for VIA, these for Sil, and integrated them using nLite.

 

[aigomorla]

wow i remember that board and how people would use it to melt durons to show just how hot they got.
Nforce 2, AGP graphics... Definitely a fun toy to play with, although its sad that a rasberry pi4 would probably slaughter it in benchmarks.

Finding proper drivers will be difficult for XP.
Finding proper drives for ISA cards that old will be difficult to find unless u score on a repository of some kind.

Good luck with the build!
If you honestly ask me tho i would ditch the controller and try one of these out:

https://www.amazon.com/SinLoon-Female-Adapter-Computer-Interface/dp/B07RSHPCBW/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sata+to+PATA&qid=1590603433&s=electronics&sr=1-4

And then use the PATA interface on the board directly.