Interesting suggestion. I'm not really using the ICH5R bridge at the moment,
and the Application Accelerator doesn't function, but it is running. I think
the
MB is using a proprietary version of the driver. As I mentioned, I can get
the hds to be seen on the ICH5R, but that's not going to let me raid them
with the SATA drives on the SI controller.... sigh... I think it's time to
try
tech support. It's 10:30 pm and I've had it for the evening.

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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Had a quick look at the MB. It looks to me like the extra 2 ATA's are
reached via a ICH5R bridge. You'll need XP to load the dll etc into the
HAL to make that work... ??? If you look at the devices manager is the
bridge there and alive?

Cheers MC

Jonathan Ganz wrote:

Well, for one thing the MB doesn't support R3. I don't want to run
across
controllers, that's why I'm trying to get everything on the Silicon
Image...
yes hardware...damn thing. I know it's possible... it says it in the
manual.

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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If you've four drives on one controller you can go raid 3... The trouble
with going raid across two controllers is that the likelihood of system
failure is increased... -at least that's how I understand it. (We are
running a raid 3 single controller linux box). Are you running hardware
raid, if so then are you sure the decoding can be shared across
controllers?

Cheers MC


Jonathan Ganz wrote:


I've been using NTFS exclusively for many years.

The problem is that I've successfully mirrored the first two HDs,
but I can't seem to get the second two to be recognized by the
bios. They're on the same SATA controller. If I put them on the
other SATA controller, then no problem, but if I do that, then
I can't stripe across controllers, which is the whole point. There
must be something in the bios that's screwy. I just updated to
the lastest version of the bios, so it can't be that (didn't work
with the older version either).

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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What's the problem? You are using NTFS?

Cheers MC

Jonathan Ganz wrote:



Actually, I'm in the process of building a raid system... 4 - 200 gig

ata


serial drives,
P4, 3.06 processor, XP Pro, Abit IC7-Max3 mb., 2 gigs ram. I'm doing

raid


0+1
and having a bit of trouble with part of the configuration.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Your computer working OK this last few days?

S.Simon


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