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NCCH-DR large raid drives
I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig
Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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NCCH-DR large raid drives
Tried updated Adaptec raid driver?
Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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NCCH-DR large raid drives
I am using a 460W Sparkle PS. The system will not even boot with only one
drive connected to the PS and SATA connector. I don't even get post the post to look at using drivers. I believe it has to do with the larger 400 Gig drives.250's and 320's work fine. "old man" wrote in message ... Tried updated Adaptec raid driver? Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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That motherboard does not support Sata2 hard drives.
If the 2 WD 400 Gig drives are Sata2 then you have to change the jumper on the drives to set them to Sata1 speed. Seems a waste not being able to utilize Sata2 on a new board ! "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I am using a 460W Sparkle PS. The system will not even boot with only one drive connected to the PS and SATA connector. I don't even get post the post to look at using drivers. I believe it has to do with the larger 400 Gig drives.250's and 320's work fine. "old man" wrote in message ... Tried updated Adaptec raid driver? Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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In article , "adaptabl"
wrote: I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. Have you tried with all four drives connected ? Maybe if the Adaptec RAID finds a couple disks with valid reserved sectors it'll work. Try the "good array" in ports 1-2, and if that doesn't work, try them in 3-4 (in case this is some kind of enumeration order dependent behavior). I disassembled the BIOS into its component modules, and there is an Adaptec module in there copyright 2003. A Supermicro board using the same RAID chip, has an Adaptec module with a copyright 2005 date on it. That doesn't have to mean anything sinister, just that the Asus code is a bit older than currently shipping support for Adaptec. And according to Google, the AIC-8130 is a Marvell 88SX6041, so it isn't even designed by Adaptec. I think Adaptec's contribution, is the BIOS code module. Paul |
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Able to check drive on another sys?
Would this be a sata2 issue do you think? - I'm not sure whether your mobo is sata1 or 2 If your mobo is sata 1 does the wd have a jumper/setting to use sata1 insted of sata2? ( I believe jumper OPT1, 5-6, enables sata1 on a sata2 WD) You may be better off contacting WD support I know they are supposed to be backward compatible but I have seen reports of probs "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I am using a 460W Sparkle PS. The system will not even boot with only one drive connected to the PS and SATA connector. I don't even get post the post to look at using drivers. I believe it has to do with the larger 400 Gig drives.250's and 320's work fine. "old man" wrote in message ... Tried updated Adaptec raid driver? Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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In article , "adaptabl"
wrote: I am using a 460W Sparkle PS. The system will not even boot with only one drive connected to the PS and SATA connector. I don't even get post the post to look at using drivers. I believe it has to do with the larger 400 Gig drives.250's and 320's work fine. "old man" wrote in message ... Tried updated Adaptec raid driver? Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. I was just reading a thread about another person's RAID controller experience. They had just connected a couple NCQ drives to an Asus motherboard, and the RAID BIOS stalled and would not allow the motherboard to finish POST. That person tried unplugging the drives, and plugged them in while the system was running. The SATA data connector does not carry any power, so should be safe to plug while the system is hot. (You connect power to the drives before powering the system, and then plug the data cable once you get past the "difficult" part of the boot sequence.) That is another thing you can try, to get around your problem. You will need a Windows level RAID management utility, to attempt to access and set up the drives - I presume a server type board such as yours, would have such a utility ? Now, the question is, assuming you succeed in accessing the drive while in Windows, will it boot the next time ? That depends on whether the issue is with the SATA interface itself, or with whatever data was on the drive. My hope would be that once the drives are initialized, that they will work better during POST. But there is no way to be certain of that. Paul |
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The drives are WD4000YR I believe they are SATA 150MB per sec drives. If I
set the the jumper for option #1 The drives show a capacity of 250 Gig but they do detect and the system post. So much for SATA making life easier. "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "adaptabl" wrote: I am using a 460W Sparkle PS. The system will not even boot with only one drive connected to the PS and SATA connector. I don't even get post the post to look at using drivers. I believe it has to do with the larger 400 Gig drives.250's and 320's work fine. "old man" wrote in message ... Tried updated Adaptec raid driver? Is your pwr supply up to the load? "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. I was just reading a thread about another person's RAID controller experience. They had just connected a couple NCQ drives to an Asus motherboard, and the RAID BIOS stalled and would not allow the motherboard to finish POST. That person tried unplugging the drives, and plugged them in while the system was running. The SATA data connector does not carry any power, so should be safe to plug while the system is hot. (You connect power to the drives before powering the system, and then plug the data cable once you get past the "difficult" part of the boot sequence.) That is another thing you can try, to get around your problem. You will need a Windows level RAID management utility, to attempt to access and set up the drives - I presume a server type board such as yours, would have such a utility ? Now, the question is, assuming you succeed in accessing the drive while in Windows, will it boot the next time ? That depends on whether the issue is with the SATA interface itself, or with whatever data was on the drive. My hope would be that once the drives are initialized, that they will work better during POST. But there is no way to be certain of that. Paul |
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I fixed it with an Adaptec 1220 raid controller card. $50.00 was cheaper
than fighting the on-board controler. "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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NCCH-DR large raid drives
thats the route I took, for different reasons
"zair" wrote in message ... I fixed it with an Adaptec 1220 raid controller card. $50.00 was cheaper than fighting the on-board controler. "adaptabl" wrote in message ... I have an Asus NCCH-DR Xeon motherboard. I am trying to use two WD 400Gig Raid edtion SATA drives. The Motherboard will not boot with the drives plugged in. The board works fine fine with two 250Gig SATA raid edtion drives. I am running the latest BIOS 1005. Any ideas? THe board has an integrated adaptec raid controller for raid. |
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