Need help: Installing Raid 0 on existing system?

bbcake009 · #1 27-06-10, 12:35 PM

First of all, is it possible to do that? I have an Intel ich9r and a j-micron controller.. All of my ICH9 are filled already, my plan is to put a raid 0 on j-micron... I have an X38 dfi board and 32 bit vista....

tinytomlogan · #2 27-06-10, 12:38 PM

You need to read the motherboard manual dude and see if its available on that board. Youll have to change settings in the bios anyways.

Get your nose in the manual first.

F-alienware · #3 27-06-10, 03:42 PM

I had a DFI once and it had a J-Micron raid controller. A friend of mine has the same thing on his 790i I'm sure of it.

The first step is to look in your bios for the RAID options. You should have three ; IDE AHCI and RAID.

To not use raid simply set it to IDE. To use RAID set it to RAID. As soon as you do (if the board does support it) then you will be faced with an extra bios-ish screen. You then press a certain key to enter RAID and stripe/mirror/stripe+mirror the drives. It will then set them up accordingly.

However one thing I do know about that J-micron is that Windows did not see it both times I knew of it being used. Thankfully Win7 browses most anywhere for the driver so you can put it wherever you like (USB CD etc). But you must install it in order for Windows to see a drive attatched to the machine.

Do some reading around and be VERY aware of the risks of striped only. If one drive fails or even burps the other one is then rendered inaccessible (well your data on it is).

tinytomlogan · #4 27-06-10, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by name='AlienALX'

I had a DFI once and it had a J-Micron raid controller. A friend of mine has the same thing on his 790i I'm sure of it.

The first step is to look in your bios for the RAID options. You should have three ; IDE AHCI and RAID.

That doesnt count for the NORMAL sata ports. he needs to look in the Jmicron settings.

F-alienware · #5 27-06-10, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by name='tinytomlogan'

That doesnt count for the NORMAL sata ports. he needs to look in the Jmicron settings.

Well I would assume that if the RAID option was there that the controller would support it? I mean if it's not there then he has a fast trak answer

tinytomlogan · #6 27-06-10, 04:02 PM

Nope the Jmicron has a seperate bit to set. you can run the main SB in IDE /ACHI and still raid the Jmicron

F-alienware · #7 27-06-10, 04:37 PM

Actually yes. My memory of it is coming back. You need to enable the raid controller and then set the options for it. Which is where the RAID IDE AHCI thingermebub is

tinytomlogan · #8 27-06-10, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by name='AlienALX'

Actually yes. My memory of it is coming back. You need to enable the raid controller and then set the options for it. Which is where the RAID IDE AHCI thingermebub is

Right for the last time. THATS WRONG

Find Jmicron in the bios and select RAID. (probably in onboard devices setup)

Leave the main storage controller settings alone!

If the Jmicron settings doesnt have a RAID (which I doubt) then you cant raid those drive without loosing the data on the others as it would require a format to a JBOD set up.

F-alienware · #9 27-06-10, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by name='tinytomlogan'

Right for the last time. THATS WRONG

Find Jmicron in the bios and select RAID. (probably in onboard devices setup)

Leave the main storage controller settings alone!

If the Jmicron settings doesnt have a RAID (which I doubt) then you cant raid those drive without loosing the data on the others as it would require a format to a JBOD set up.

On the 680i and my friend's 790i two of the six ports were on a seperate controller. The first four were on the chipset's regular IDE SATA channels and the last two were on the Jmicron. Thus you needed to enter the storage config settings and enable the raid controller and then configure it. Otherwise if you connected six drives two of them wouldn't work or even be seen.

At least I am sure that's how it was. I know for 100% that on the eVGA 680i I had you could only use four ports unless you enabled the RAID controller which was its own entity. You didn't actually have to set RAID up to use th extra ports but those drives (even my Blu Ray) were not detected in the regular bios post until the RAID controller had kicked in. It then detected them in its bios and they would show up in Windows. But only once I had installed the driver of course

tinytomlogan · #10 27-06-10, 08:29 PM

What you wrote read like you change the main storage controller mate you did not say only change the Jmicron settings.