Need help: Installing Raid 0 on existing system?
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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.
Get your nose in the manual first.
alienware
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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).
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).
name='AlienALX' said:
That doesnt count for the NORMAL sata ports. he needs to look in the Jmicron settings.
Nope the Jmicron has a seperate bit to set. you can run the main SB in IDE /ACHI and still raid the Jmicron 
name='AlienALX' said: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.
alienware
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name='tinytomlogan' said:
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
What you wrote read like you change the main storage controller mate you did not say only change the Jmicron settings.
The j-micron I have is capable of doing raid.... The only thing I'm not sure if I can install raid after the operating system had been installed... I read the manual it said that I needed to install raid then the operating system...
Let me see if I get it right:
1. configure bios to do raid on j-micron press ctrl-j while booting up... Well, i know how to do that and the driver thing.
2. install raid drivers on windows for it to see the drive... is that correct?
Let me see if I get it right:
1. configure bios to do raid on j-micron press ctrl-j while booting up... Well, i know how to do that and the driver thing.
2. install raid drivers on windows for it to see the drive... is that correct?
alienware
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Yeah at first I forgot there were two levels to it. Sorry, should have pointed it out. It's my bad really as I was typing as I remembered haha.
Not really into RAID. In Windows the differences were so minimal I didn't notice anything (even though ATTO said I was about 15% quicker on reads). What sealed the deal for me in the end was the AGE it added to post boot times. Seriously it was yawnsome waiting for bios and then the RAID controller to do their thang.
Not really into RAID. In Windows the differences were so minimal I didn't notice anything (even though ATTO said I was about 15% quicker on reads). What sealed the deal for me in the end was the AGE it added to post boot times. Seriously it was yawnsome waiting for bios and then the RAID controller to do their thang.
alienware
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name='bbcake009' said:
Yes that's correct. You do the bios thing (however you have to do it, seriously sorry but it's been ages)
Then go into the RAID bios and set it up there (again, memory is failing me but I remember it being pretty darn simple)
Then when you boot from the DVD it will flag and say "there are no disk drives attatched to this computer, set up has halted" or something. Then you can browse for a driver. I don't know if Micron made any more than the one RAID controller but you may not need a driver Windows may have it.
Browse to the driver, pick it and you'll soon know if it worked because you will have one drive and it will be double the size of one drive (or both combined, either or, same thing). Then you just follow the standard installation proceedure
Hopefully you don't have an Nvidia chipset. Because for some unknown reason even when you are in Windows and it is working absolutely fine you'll constantly get this nag saying that you need to install the RAID driver. And if you do? it buggers up the Windows install.. Before that happens look at your msconfig and disable the Nvidia nag crap from starting with Windows.
I did run it once and it was similar to RAID bios. Sadly on reboot it had wiped my drives so I had to reinstall all over again. I think it gets confused and thinks the controller is Nvidia or something whacky.
now I will have raid... My plan is to transfer my running programs and games to it so that windows will load it a lot quicker (but don't get me wrong my system is fast, I just want whenever I click it, it pops instantly for example NERO)
So is it possible to move the program files to a different HD w/out corrupting it? C TO PROGRAMS to D TO PROGRAMS...
OR i need to uninstall all my programs and games and install it back to raid. PLS. don't say that its a lot a work
but TY in advance....
So is it possible to move the program files to a different HD w/out corrupting it? C TO PROGRAMS to D TO PROGRAMS...
OR i need to uninstall all my programs and games and install it back to raid. PLS. don't say that its a lot a work
but TY in advance....
You need to install all the programs again dude.
