DFI motherboard Sata drivers

[clone38]

What are better drivers for raid0 on this motherboard the NV or Sli ones?

I have 2x74gb raptors for raid0

And 160gb backup drive

So far ive tryed the sli one`s but i cannot get my backup drive to show up in my computer,it is in Device manager,ive got my raptors on Sata 5+6 and backup on Sata 1

Ta

 

[boardy]

Well SLI drivers wont RAID anything mate lol, you need the Silicon Image ones or NV Raid.

I'd use the NV Raid personally, it's SATA-II

Boardy

 

[clone38]

Hehe i ment the Silicon Image one`s

Im installing the NV one`s now

 

[Animal]

Well SLI drivers wont RAID anything mate lol, you need the Silicon Image ones or NV Raid.

I'd use the NV Raid personally, it's SATA-II

Boardy

LOL and the drives are not sata II

I have the same drives on the Sil 3114 chip and my sata II drives on the NVraid ports as they get used at sata II.

 

[maverik-sg1]

Slightly OT - but can you mix SATA and SATA2 on the same controller?

 

[K404]

yup, the performance will be limited to the speed of the slower disk though.



SATAII is just a capability- totally backwards compatable with SATAI, for a change

 

[clone38]

Problem now sorted,phew

Dont go away anybody as ive still to fit my mach 2

 

[boardy]

yup, the performance will be limited to the speed of the slower disk though.



SATAII is just a capability- totally backwards compatable with SATAI, for a change

SATA-II is not compatible with SATA-I mate, it's the other way round

I was thinking that I could buy SATA-II disks and use them on SATA-I but after speaking to a few guys at work it's not possible. I read up and Hitachi also say the same.

 

[K404]

I`m convinced it`ll work...only one way to find out!

Wouldnt that mean a SATAII disk will only work on an NF4 Ultra/SLI mobo?

 

[boardy]

Or an SATA-II enabled mobo

 

[K404]

any conditions on "working" ?

I think i`ve had my Spinpoint hooked up to my flatmates Abit NF7-S, as a slave mind, and I could transfer files fine?