If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How to set up RAID 0+1 on P4C800E-DLX MB -using 4 SATA HDD's & 2 ATA133 HHD?
"DanO" wrote in message om...
You're welcome. Good luck with the RAID5 setup. I wish I could afford it This is an update as of 05/15/04 to my problem: If you want to use 4 SATA drives running RAID on this MB be WARNED: you can't unless you get an add on PCI Raid card. The on board RAID is either the promise controller or the Intel controller, but not both. So you can use either the on board RAID 1 and RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB or you can use the SATA RAID 1 and SATA RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB, but you CAN'T use all 4 SATA plugs on this MB. THANKS ASUS for telling us! NOT! I ended up having to buy a third party PCI RAID controller card and plugging all four of my SATA drives into it to use them together in a RAID array. I got the 3ware Escalade 8506-4LP and have all four SATA drives plugged into this card in RAID 5, I'm not even using any of the on board RAID controllers. This info isn't anywhere on the ASUS web site or the manual about this MB. BEWARE of incomplete info from ASUS. With the 3ware add on card (at an additional cost of $305.00) it works okay, except for an aggravating error every time I boot up that says "your system recovered for a serious error" about some non specific device driver. My rig is: OS: Win. XP Pro. Svc. Pck. 1A MB: Asus P4C800E- Deluxe Case: Coolermaster Preatorian PAC-T01-E1 with Antec True 430 ATX12V PSU CPU: P4 3Ghz. - 800 Mhz, FSB (w/ Coolermaster aftermarket Heatsink / Fan) Memory: Kingston 3200/400DDR (512 x 2)in slots 1 and 4 4 (four): Seagate SATA 160G 7200 RPM Hard Disk Drives (HDD's) 3 ware add on PCI card: Escalade 8506-4LP RAID controller card Optorite 8X DVD Burner Sapphire 9200 Radeon 8x AGP video card (by ATI) Mitsumi Model # D359M3D 1.44 floppy (black) Sceptre 19" TFT LCD flat panel display |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
DEAR EVERYBODY:
I was the original poster on this thread and want everybody to know what I finally did to resolve my problem (explained in detail in the above thread. This is an update as of 05/21/04 to my problem: If you want to use 4 SATA drives running RAID on this MB be WARNED: you can't unless you get an add on PCI Raid card. The on board RAID is either the promise controller or the Intel controller, but not both. So you can use either the on board RAID 1 and RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB or you can use the SATA RAID 1 and SATA RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB, but you CAN'T use all 4 SATA plugs on this MB. THANKS ASUS for telling us! NOT! I ended up having to buy a third party PCI RAID controller card and plugging all four of my SATA drives into it to use them together in a RAID array. I got the 3ware Escalade 8506-4LP and have all four SATA drives plugged into this card in RAID 5, I'm not even using any of the on board RAID controllers. This info isn't anywhere on the ASUS web site or the manual about this MB. BEWARE of incomplete info from ASUS. With the 3ware add on card (at an additional cost of $305.00) it works okay, except for an aggravating error every time I boot up that says "your system recovered for a serious error" about some non specific device driver. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
"DanO" wrote in message om...
You're welcome. Good luck with the RAID5 setup. I wish I could afford it myself. DanO "Data Wing" wrote in message om... "DanO" wrote in message om... Data, You can use all of the connectors on the MB at the same time, but you can NOT create one giant raid set using all of the connectors at once. The two Intel IDE connectors can support up to 4 devices total, but none in a RAID Array. These IDE ports can be used for Hard Drives or Optical Drives. Dear DanO and other interested readers: (from Datawing - original poster): This is an update as of 06/05/04 to my problem: If you want to use 4 SATA drives running RAID on this MB be WARNED: you can't unless you get an add on PCI Raid card. The on board RAID is either the promise controller or the Intel controller, but not both. So you can use either the on board RAID 1 and RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB or you can use the SATA RAID 1 and SATA RAID 2 plugs coming off the MB, but you CAN'T use all 4 SATA plugs on this MB. THANKS ASUS for telling us! NOT! I ended up having to buy a third party PCI RAID controller card and plugging all four of my SATA drives into it to use them together in a RAID array. I got the 3ware Escalade 8506-4LP and have all four SATA drives plugged into this card in RAID 5, I'm not even using any of the on board RAID controllers. This info isn't anywhere on the ASUS web site or the manual about this MB. BEWARE of incomplete info from ASUS. With the 3ware add on card (at an additional cost of $305.00) it worked okay for about 2 weeks, except for an error every time I booted up that says "your system recovered from a serious error" about some non specific device driver. Now, as of last week, it won't even boot up, giving a "STOP" error BSOD. I've spent over $3600.00 on this rig and it won'r even boot up. Don't know what to do. My rig is: OS: Win. XP Pro. Svc. Pck. 1A MB: Asus P4C800E- Deluxe Case: Coolermaster Preatorian PAC-T01-E1 with Antec True 430 ATX12V PSU CPU: P4 3Ghz. - 800 Mhz, FSB (w/ Coolermaster aftermarket Heatsink / Fan) Memory: Kingston 3200/400DDR (512 x 2)in slots 1 and 4 4 (four): Seagate SATA 160G 7200 RPM Hard Disk Drives (HDD's) 3 ware add on PCI card: Escalade 8506-4LP RAID controller card Optorite 8X DVD Burner Sapphire 9200 Radeon 8x AGP video card (by ATI) Mitsumi Model # D359M3D 1.44 floppy (black) Sceptre 19" TFT LCD flat panel display The two Intel SATA connectors can perform RAID 0 or RAID 1 with two SATA Hard Drives (1 per connector.) The Promise Controller can perform RAID 0 or RAID 1 with its two SATA connectors (same as the Intel above.) You can also create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array with the single Promise IDE port (two IDE drives on one ribbon cable, one Master one Slave.) With the Promise Controller, you might be able to perform RAID 0+1 as well, using 4 drives (2 SATA in RAID 0 + 2 IDE in RAID 0.) Basically you'd have a mirror set of two RAID 0 arrays. RAID 0 = Disk Striping (no protection, but extra speed) RAID 1 = Disk Mirroring (protection, but only 1/2 total drive space available) RAID 5 = an array of at least 3 drives, where any one drive can fail and no data will be lost. The failed drive can then be replaced and its data recreated from the "parity" data on the remaining drives. (extra speed, protection, and efficient use of disk space.) DanO "Data Wing" wrote in message om... "jim" wrote in message A good hardware RAID controller like one at www.3ware.com running RAID 5 is your best and highest performance solution. Use the 4 Seagates in RAID 5 and put the two Samsungs off the mobo's controllers in RAID 1 for less intense disk I/O usage or better sell the Samsungs. JIM: So what you are saying is that with this MB (P4C800-E DLX), I could buy a high end Raid 5 Controller and be able to use these 4 identical SATA Barracudas (160G - 7200 RPM) on this MB? Is that RAID 5 contoller a PCI slot card? If so, would all SATA 4 HDD's be connected off that controller card? If not, what hardware would go where? Would I still use on board Intel or on board Promise Raid ? I NOW know I can't use BOTH of the on board Intel Raid and the on board Promise RAID subsystems at the same time on this MB. They are mutually exclusive. NOTHING in the ASUS manual or ASUS website about these being mutually exclusive! This MB manual is very poor on anything other than straight RAID 0 or straight RAID 1 with just a couple of hard drives. But what gives with all these connectors on this MB? ASUS needs to tell people they can't use all the SATA connestors and the PROMISE ata 133 connectors at the same time on this MB! Am I right? Appareltly they are options. If I set up RAID 5 using all 4 SATA HDD's as you suggest on this MB, which SATA connectors on this MB would be used, and would the on board Intel Raid drivers and/or the on board Promise Raid drivers need to be installed? I am considering your suggested (Raid 5 w/ all 4 SATA HDD's) solution but need to know exactly how that would be connected and configured on this MB before I spend any more money. I have already spent over $3,300.00 on this system so far, and from what I am going to have left over I will probably have enough to build a 2d system (which I don't really need). I have been trying to figure this out for about 2 months. Lastly could you please shed some light on what is RAID 5? Thank you for your help. DAN-O: Thanks for your help. I think I'll just buy the 3ware 8506-4 LP Controller card. I think it will install in any PCI slot and I can plug the 4 SATA 160G HDD's directly into the card. It will support RAID 5. According to 3ware site, Raid 5 is mirroring and striping and I will only lose the equivalent of 1 drive worth of data storage space. So with 4 - 160 G HDD's I will still have (3 x 160 =) 480 G of data storage space. It irks me that I paid so much for this MOBO and my primary function will be from an add on Controller Card (which is going to cost $342.00!). I probably could have saved some money by buying a mainboard that didn't have on board RAID, which I will end up not using. I am disappointed at ASUS for not indicating clearly in the specs and in their manual that you can't set up a multi SATA HDD RAID above Raid 0 or Raid 1.(Without adding a PCI controller card.) Uggh! --- BUT thanks very much for your help. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
How I built a 2.8TB RAID storage array | Yeechang Lee | Homebuilt PC's | 31 | February 22nd 05 06:40 PM |
P4C800E Deluxe Intel SATA RAID vs. Promise SATA RAID | mpsan | Asus Motherboards | 11 | May 5th 04 01:50 AM |
RAID 0 problems | no spam | Homebuilt PC's | 0 | April 30th 04 06:18 PM |
DAW & Windows XP RAID Tips, ProTools error -9086 | Giganews | Asus Motherboards | 0 | October 24th 03 06:45 AM |
help. ga-7vrxp raid trouble, compatability and warning | todd elliott | General | 0 | July 17th 03 06:50 PM |