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Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Problem Gigaraid ITE Raid Western Digital Hard Drive
Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I
have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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hi
only got one wd (80g) on my board (gigabyte 7n400 Pro2) with no problems. but cpu load in hdtach seems to be high! coco "Bcti" skrev i meddelandet om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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CoCo wrote in message ... only got one wd (80g) on my board (gigabyte 7n400 Pro2) with no problems. but cpu load in hdtach seems to be high! hdtach doesnt measure cpu load very well. "Bcti" skrev i meddelandet om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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This is WD so no jumpers and one drive per 80 conductor cable.
XP requires a lot of hand holding before it will install on RAID 0. You have to give it the correct driver at F6 time. I use the Gigaraid with WD drives on the same board and they run well. XP is on the Serial Raid. JPS "Bcti" wrote in message om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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Ok, I already tried it with jumpers off. I have used every driver I
could fine with the F6 Key. I am using 80 conductor cable and one drive is on each ide controller. Are your WD Drives 8 MB Cache? How big are they? I have been thinking to purchase 2 pata to serial ata adapters just to get them running... Really bummed out cause on my 7vaxp everything was running fine but got the upgrade bug. Thanks for your help hopefully(or not) someone has had a similar experience. Cheers. "jpsga" wrote in message news:18dsb.123965$mZ5.834339@attbi_s54... This is WD so no jumpers and one drive per 80 conductor cable. XP requires a lot of hand holding before it will install on RAID 0. You have to give it the correct driver at F6 time. I use the Gigaraid with WD drives on the same board and they run well. XP is on the Serial Raid. JPS "Bcti" wrote in message om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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"Walt" wrote in message .. . Hi- Did you set the WD drives to cable select in staed of master/slave? I think Stop that, immediately! the RAID works best that way Walt "Bcti" wrote in message om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows XP the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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Don't go down to hard too fast. Steps review:
Ctrl G to set RAID array. Took RAID 0 and auto setup then exit. This makes it look like a new drive to the system, So: booted with a floppy that has FDISK.EXE. Used menu item 5 to find the array. Make primary partition that is the size of the drive. Boot to windows. Windows finds the drive because it has a FAT32 table and an MBR. Now that you have the drive; ask windows to format it. This is the same procedure I use on a any new drive. This is a LBA procedure. The device manager will ask for driver, it ( the RAID system ) is treated like SCSI . To your questions: Using WD200BB's . ATA100, 20 GB, 2m buffer. Have used Highpoint Rocket Raid 100 and HighPoint 1540 SATA. Using adaptors requires the same set up. JPS "Bcti" wrote in message om... Ok, I already tried it with jumpers off. I have used every driver I could fine with the F6 Key. I am using 80 conductor cable and one drive is on each ide controller. Are your WD Drives 8 MB Cache? How big are they? I have been thinking to purchase 2 pata to serial ata adapters just to get them running... Really bummed out cause on my 7vaxp everything was running fine but got the upgrade bug. Thanks for your help hopefully(or not) someone has had a similar experience. Cheers. "jpsga" wrote in message news:18dsb.123965$mZ5.834339@attbi_s54... This is WD so no jumpers and one drive per 80 conductor cable. XP requires a lot of hand holding before it will install on RAID 0. You have to give it the correct driver at F6 time. I use the Gigaraid with WD drives on the same board and they run well. XP is on the Serial Raid. JPS "Bcti" wrote in message om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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Hi-
Did you set the WD drives to cable select in staed of master/slave? I think the RAID works best that way Walt "Bcti" wrote in message om... Just wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows a solution. I have 2 Western Digital 180 GB 8 MB Cache IDE hard drives that I am trying to get to work with the ite raid controller on my motherboard (gigabyte 7n400 PRo2). When I connect them and try to load windows xp the transfer rate somehow slows to a crawl and even leaving it 12 hours it only completes 50% of the file transfer. I know it is not the motherboard as I have already replaced it. I also have used 2 60 GB Maxtor 2 MB Cache hard drives and they worked fine on the raid controller. My only explanation is that there is a conflict between these Western Digital Hard Drives and the Gigaraid (ITE) Controller. Also if I use just one WD hard drive on the controller in a non raid 1 setup it behaves the same so it is not a raid/non raid issue. |
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