GA7DXR+: Fastrack Lite BIOS Cannot Make Striped 2nd Array?
 

Re GA-7DXR+ mainboard and RAID

I have an existing dual 80 GB (160GB RAID 0) array running on this system.
It is necessary to add more RAID space to my machine, so I bought two
additional drives and added them to the RAID controller.
The original array is RAID 0.
When I chose the auto build array function in Fastrack Lite, I got a warning
that the Lite version does not support two arrays and that it would build
single-drive arrays. This came as a surprise.
So now instead of having my existing 160GB RAID 0 and a (expected) 240GB
RAID 0, I have only been able to add two more 120GB single disk 'arrays'. I
can only hope that the new drives are a lot faster than the ones I bought
last year, as I'm editing uncompressed video.
But before I give up totally on RAID, is there a workaround to this
inability? Can the BIOS be upgraded to the full Fastrack RAID? I have no
more slots to add an external RAID controller (unless I want to give up my
NLE capture and accelerator cards, which would negate the whole purpose of
needing the RAID).
I hope there is an answer!

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Looks like this speed concern of needing RAID0 is a non-issue.

The new 120GB drives are individually just as fast or slightly faster than
two of last year's fastest 80GB ATA drives in RAID0.
nBench ran the benchmarks in surprisingly little time and the score
consistently came out at 57mB/s on read and write with a range of test file
sizes from 100MB to 512MB. They seem to be performing super adequately so
it's no real problem. I just have two more 120GB partitions instead of one
big 240GB partition, in addition to my other partitions preexisting.


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Mark & Mary Ann Weiss

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"Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" wrote in message
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Looks like this speed concern of needing RAID0 is a non-issue.

The new 120GB drives are individually just as fast or slightly faster than
two of last year's fastest 80GB ATA drives in RAID0.
nBench ran the benchmarks in surprisingly little time and the score
consistently came out at 57mB/s on read and write with a range of test
file
sizes from 100MB to 512MB. They seem to be performing super adequately so
it's no real problem. I just have two more 120GB partitions instead of one
big 240GB partition, in addition to my other partitions preexisting.


You can try www.lumberjacker.de They are producing Bios upgrades for full
raid functions for various MBs.

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Take care,

Mark & Mary Ann Weiss

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Hear my Kurzweil Creations at: http://www.dv-clips.com/theater.htm
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big 240GB partition, in addition to my other partitions preexisting.


You can try www.lumberjacker.de They are producing Bios upgrades for full
raid functions for various MBs.

--
Regards, Rene Lamontagne




Thanks for the link. However, they are only up to F9C. I'm running F10 which
supports the XP2400+ that I'm running. I'll bookmark the link in case
anything changes.


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Take care,

Mark & Mary Ann Weiss

VIDEO PRODUCTION . FILM SCANNING . AUDIO RESTORATION
Hear my Kurzweil Creations at: http://www.dv-clips.com/theater.htm
Business sites at:
www.dv-clips.com
www.mwcomms.com
www.adventuresinanimemusic.com
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