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8KNXP, SATA Intel ICH5R and SMART
After having a drive of a RAID 0 go bad on me and giving SMART errors
(as seen during boot with the intel RAID), and after rebuilding the system several times over a few months (yes, I had backups :-)), I received a replacement drive. I then decided to install the two SATA drives without a RAID and got another IDE drive just for some data backup. All 3 drives are 200Gig each. I realize many out there disable SMART, but I just wanted to check it once in a while to see if things are fine. I got a couple of SMART capable utilities and ran them. I can only see the primary SATA drive and my IDE SMART status. Second SATA drive does not show up as SMART capable. I switched the drives and also cables, same result. 2nd drive does show SMART when connected to primary location so it is fine. I believe the issue is with the second channel. I contacted giga-byte and thought that maybe upgrading from F6k to F9 might help. I upgraded the bios (after some hickups and hangs of the intel RAID controller on boot) and I also upgraded the intel WinxP drivers and I still get the same result. In addition, the "SCSI" option does not show up in BIOS for a boot device, although windows does boot from the SATA drive. BIOS SMART option enable/disable does not seem to have any effect one way or the other. Giga-byte, after many exchanges, tells me that a) not having the SCSI option show up is just fine, and b) non OS drive will not display SMART. Neither of these makes sense to me since the IDE drive isn't an OS drive either but does show SMART. My questions: 1) have others experienced the SCSI option issue and is there a way to bring it back? With the option gone, is the drive being mapped to IDE and am I losing some SATA performance? 2) is this true regarding the secondary SATA channel not showing SMART, or is this an issue with the ICH5R chip? Since on boot both show "normal", I wonder if it is still some WinXP driver issue that causes all the utilities to not see the status of the 2nd drive. Thanks! |
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