Zap
Elite Member
System:
P4 2.53 (stable at 3.33)
MSI PT880 mobo
80GB WD SE drive
2x 160GB Maxtor SATA drives
PCI Silicon Image SATA RAID
The system works great with the ATA100 WD drive even overclocked to 3.33GHz. When I tried adding the Maxtor SATA drives using the onboard VIA RAID the drives weren't detected. Had to update BIOS for the drives to be detected at all. After BIOS update, drives are detected, but only at default FSB speeds. Specifically, at default 133MHz the drives are detected fine and I can create the array. At 134MHz the controller reports the array is broken. At 135MHz the controller reports no drives present.
The motherboard officially supports 200MHz (800MHz quad pumped) and officially supports locked AGP/PCI speeds. With the parallel ATA drive I can run stable at 175MHz FSB.
So, I buy the cheap Koutech ($23@Newegg) SIL3112A SATA RAID card. It will detect the drives with no problem, no matter what the FSB. The problem is that it won't build the RAID array. Sure, it says it is building the array, but nothing happens. Newest BIOS from siliconimage.com only adds option to low level format, and changes the date to 2004. The card sees both drives just fine and I can go through the menu to create the array either manually or on AUTO (it chooses 16k stripe). Either way, nothing happens. Windows install still sees two 160GB drives. The RAID BIOS cannot delete array, saying "no array present." No duh! It never creates it.
Anyone got any ideas?
P4 2.53 (stable at 3.33)
MSI PT880 mobo
80GB WD SE drive
2x 160GB Maxtor SATA drives
PCI Silicon Image SATA RAID
The system works great with the ATA100 WD drive even overclocked to 3.33GHz. When I tried adding the Maxtor SATA drives using the onboard VIA RAID the drives weren't detected. Had to update BIOS for the drives to be detected at all. After BIOS update, drives are detected, but only at default FSB speeds. Specifically, at default 133MHz the drives are detected fine and I can create the array. At 134MHz the controller reports the array is broken. At 135MHz the controller reports no drives present.
The motherboard officially supports 200MHz (800MHz quad pumped) and officially supports locked AGP/PCI speeds. With the parallel ATA drive I can run stable at 175MHz FSB.
So, I buy the cheap Koutech ($23@Newegg) SIL3112A SATA RAID card. It will detect the drives with no problem, no matter what the FSB. The problem is that it won't build the RAID array. Sure, it says it is building the array, but nothing happens. Newest BIOS from siliconimage.com only adds option to low level format, and changes the date to 2004. The card sees both drives just fine and I can go through the menu to create the array either manually or on AUTO (it chooses 16k stripe). Either way, nothing happens. Windows install still sees two 160GB drives. The RAID BIOS cannot delete array, saying "no array present." No duh! It never creates it.
Anyone got any ideas?
