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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! -- 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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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. -- 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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"Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" wrote in message link.net... 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. -- Regards, Rene Lamontagne -- 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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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. -- 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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