Software Raid gone wrong. (I took this to the Motherboard section with no success...)

[Davidh373]

Alright, I already took this to the motherboard section of the forum.... so please refrain from directing me there as I got 0 responses and 52 views... so... yeah...

Now on to my problem. I've been dealing with this problem for some time now. I have 2 1TB Caviar Blacks which were in software Raid 1. I then got the genius Idea of installing hackintosh on one... So that unraided the drives on the quick and quite unusually...

On reboot I begin seeing a JRAID message in bios reading

"Warning: Although the Drives are not currently in RAID, there is still a raid formation on the drives

Drive 1: WD...whatever... whatever
Drive 2: WD...whatever... whatever"

The 2 drives then completely disappeared from windows. Bios read the drives, but windows didn't even show the drives in disk management.

I then shipped the drives back to WD and got them replaced. I plugged them in and they were still missing.

I then found an error fishing through my Hardware and Sound drivers. RAID driver had an error, so I reinstalled it and POOF they magically reappeared.

YAY!!! right?... Wrong... :/

So now I can use them easy enough, but they have a lessened speed (They get a score of 5.6 in Windows Experience Index). I know this can't be the proper speed. Every once in a while, on top of the speed issue is that a drive will show up blinking red in the Bios warning message from above and it isn't shown in windows until I restart.

I've searched the warning on Google, it just brings up general info about raid.

 

[Fayd]

Alright, I already took this to the motherboard section of the forum.... so please refrain from directing me there as I got 0 responses and 52 views... so... yeah...

Now on to my problem. I've been dealing with this problem for some time now. I have 2 1TB Caviar Blacks which were in software Raid 1. I then got the genius Idea of installing hackintosh on one... So that unraided the drives on the quick and quite unusually...

On reboot I begin seeing a JRAID message in bios reading

"Warning: Although the Drives are not currently in RAID, there is still a raid formation on the drives

Drive 1: WD...whatever... whatever
Drive 2: WD...whatever... whatever"

The 2 drives then completely disappeared from windows. Bios read the drives, but windows didn't even show the drives in disk management.

I then shipped the drives back to WD and got them replaced. I plugged them in and they were still missing.

I then found an error fishing through my Hardware and Sound drivers. RAID driver had an error, so I reinstalled it and POOF they magically reappeared.

YAY!!! right?... Wrong... :/

So now I can use them easy enough, but they have a lessened speed (They get a score of 5.6 in Windows Experience Index). I know this can't be the proper speed. Every once in a while, on top of the speed issue is that a drive will show up blinking red in the Bios warning message from above and it isn't shown in windows until I restart.

I've searched the warning on Google, it just brings up general info about raid.

hmm...

my primary hard disk is a 150 gig velociraptor.

win experience score, 5.9. at ~45% filled.

i dont think 5.6 is out of the ordinary.


btw, one of your sata ports might be fucked.

 

[Davidh373]

btw, one of your sata ports might be fucked.

Why do you say that? It began occurring with the install of iATKOS about 3/4 of a year ago. It's more the fact that the RAID error is there, not the experience score (great to know it isn't performing out of the ordinary otherwise though).

I'm going to be getting an SSD soon to replace the Velociraptor. I should have mentioned this but I'm more worried about it taking up the 10-20 seconds it's on screen in Bios than the actual error itself. I would rather fix the error than cover it up, but right now it's wasting precious boot time.

EDIT: Oh, and thank you for your response btw.

 

[rasczak]

from what you've described, it appears you still have an active raid array going with the two ports your 1tb drives are on. you need to break that array properly (rtm) in the bios.

 

[Davidh373]

from what you've described, it appears you still have an active raid array going with the two ports your 1tb drives are on. you need to break that array properly (rtm) in the bios.

Wonderful! How?

 

[betasub]

As rasczak suggests, through the RAID BIOS at boot, and RTM to be sure.

 

[Davidh373]

I'm sorry for being a pest, but I am unfamiliar with BIOS and the terms involved. What would RAID settings be under in BIOS, and what is RTM?

 

[betasub]

RTM = Read The Manual (a polite request, as opposed to RTFM!).

Your hardware sig doesn't specify a motherboard or RAID controller, but assuming you are using the onboard controller: after your motherboard has been through POST and initial display/RAM/drive checks, it should move onto RAID checks - at this stage you can hit a specific key to enter RAID BIOS (this should be mentioned on-screen, or otherwise RTM!).

 

[Davidh373]

Oh, this is a bummer. I've tried that. It says to hold Ctrl + J, which I do, and it doesn't go anywhere... Is there any other way you can get to it in regular BIOS settings that you know of? I will read the manual lol... I sound like such a noob... I have the EVGA SLI X3 board. With Phoenix Award BIOS.