Simultaneous 2 Raid 0 (ICH10R and Rocketraid) ?

[ALarocca]

Hi,

- Good night.

- I would be very grateful case somebody could explain to me the following question:

- I bought the Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 and I intend to use it with 8 Hds. For that, I intend to buy a Raid Controller External but for only 4 HDs (Rocketraid 2640X4). This way, I would set up 1 Raid 0 in Rocketraid and other Raid 0 different in ICH10R (Native of Motherbord).

- For the that I researched, this configuration (2 Raids, being 1 with Controlling Expresses), doesn't work in Asus Socket 1366. Will it be that happens the same in the Gigabytes ?

Thank you very much for the attention.
Aureliano Larocca

 

[RebateMonger]

With any RAID controller, there can be conflicts with the motherboard or devices containing add-in BIOS code. Dell desktops and servers, for instance, can conflict with a third-party RAID card. And two RAID devices can interfere with each other.

Some (all?) RocketRAID cards offer the ability to reconfigure the card's BIOS to make it more compatibile. In the RocketRAID, this is done by "updating" the BIOS and entering the configuration GUI. The "Reallocate EBDA" (enable/disable) is one place where compatibility issues can be fixed (by disabling the "Reallocate EBDA" function).

My recent RocketRAID 2310 RAID card froze the BIOS on my new Dell SC440 server. By updating to the latest BIOS and re-configuring it to turn off the EEBDA Reallocation, I was able to get the Dell to boot with the RAID card in place. I've seen a similar problem with a 3Ware RAID card on a Dell 1600SC, but 3Ware offered no help in getting that Dell to boot.

 

[RebateMonger]

Duplicate post.