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Raid controller problems on D845PBET2; and its solvation...
Hi everyone!
My first topic... I share this info with the hope for some feedback regarding this matter. I have 2 computers with D845PEBT2 motherboards and 2 Seagate Barracuda V SATA drives installed on eatch board. They run with XP and would display the exact same problems; corrupting data and breaking raid-sets. Since I hade 2 computers to "lab" with I soon could exlude the drives as source of this problem. After some research I found it to be the Silicon Image on-board RAID controller that caused the problem (altough massively denied by Intel...) At first I thought it might be the BIOS (or separate ROM for the controller) causing the problem, but after reading an old Google thread about Intel drivers for this particular board I suspected the SATA RAID driver! So I started looking at the Silicon Image website for possible drivers and a couple of weeks ago I got lucky! SI released new "general" drivers for their controller chip in question. I installed this and it seems to work perfectly, except for some marginal reduction in performance (speed). Have anyone out there any additional info regarding this (I might ad that this is a SHORT version of the actual events... ;/ )? I have had some contact with the people at Intels motherboard evaluation/development/support. Nobody seems to have heard of this problem, and they tell me that no dates are set for new drivers or ROM code... Well, take care and don't spend ALL your time at the computer. ;D /Lex Lee |
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"Lex Lee" wrote in message om... Hi everyone! My first topic... I share this info with the hope for some feedback regarding this matter. I have 2 computers with D845PEBT2 motherboards and 2 Seagate Barracuda V SATA drives installed on eatch board. They run with XP and would display the exact same problems; corrupting data and breaking raid-sets. Since I hade 2 computers to "lab" with I soon could exlude the drives as source of this problem. After some research I found it to be the Silicon Image on-board RAID controller that caused the problem (altough massively denied by Intel...) At first I thought it might be the BIOS (or separate ROM for the controller) causing the problem, but after reading an old Google thread about Intel drivers for this particular board I suspected the SATA RAID driver! So I started looking at the Silicon Image website for possible drivers and a couple of weeks ago I got lucky! SI released new "general" drivers for their controller chip in question. I installed this and it seems to work perfectly, except for some marginal reduction in performance (speed). Have anyone out there any additional info regarding this (I might ad that this is a SHORT version of the actual events... ;/ )? I have had some contact with the people at Intels motherboard evaluation/development/support. Nobody seems to have heard of this problem, and they tell me that no dates are set for new drivers or ROM code... Well, take care and don't spend ALL your time at the computer. ;D /Lex Lee Did you perform a full surface scan on all drives? I bought a pair of Baracuda Vs last week and one of them had been dropped on a hard surface prior to packaging. Needless to say the Raid set didn't work;~(( I'm actually wondering if a Raid set is worthwhile anyway? The Barracuda V seems very fast already so I'll see how raid goes when I get the replacement but I may decide to run them as 2 separate drives to keep things simple. Rod |
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Hi Rod!
I´ve done a full scan of the drives in one of the computers, and they seems to be in perfect condition but still wouldn't work. And as I explained, with the general driver from SI they do perform perfect eccept from what seems to be some what slower responce. But They still deliver more than enough speed for my applications (I run a music recording studio so I push my drives pretty hard). I run RAID1, mirrored volume, for security reasons. But just like you I've gone over to just have 2 stand alone drives, and do ordinary backups... The thing is that even if I run my drives as regular, singel-non-raid-sata drives, they will fail if I use the Intel driver. Data will be corrupted on a non predictabel basis, sometimes even in the index files causing "dissaperance" of files on your drives. This can cause a total breakdown if you run your system on the SATA drive (witch I did...)With a non repairable system partision as the result. No fun at all... :/ Regards /Lex |
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"Lex Lee" wrote in message m... Hi Rod! I´ve done a full scan of the drives in one of the computers, and they seems to be in perfect condition but still wouldn't work. And as I explained, with the general driver from SI they do perform perfect eccept from what seems to be some what slower responce. But They still deliver more than enough speed for my applications (I run a music recording studio so I push my drives pretty hard). I run RAID1, mirrored volume, for security reasons. But just like you I've gone over to just have 2 stand alone drives, and do ordinary backups... The thing is that even if I run my drives as regular, singel-non-raid-sata drives, they will fail if I use the Intel driver. Data will be corrupted on a non predictabel basis, sometimes even in the index files causing "dissaperance" of files on your drives. This can cause a total breakdown if you run your system on the SATA drive (witch I did...)With a non repairable system partision as the result. No fun at all... :/ ATM I'm leaving my system on a conventional IDE drive 'til I have more experience of how the SATA drives perform - just using them as a file dump at present. Rod |
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