Anybody done this?

If so was it straight forward? anyone done it using MSI 915p chipset?

Pete

 

yes but not using a 915 chipset. Its the same procedure anyway. First create your raid aray, this is done by using the raid tool on your Motherboard. The two HD's should really be the same size and brand and you will also lose all data currently on the drive. The will now become "one" drive. If you use 2x120GB it will become a single 240GB etc..

Make the raid array and set it to raid 0, restart your pc with your vista disk and when it loads up it wont detect your drives. Dont panic this is normal! You select the option to load a 3rd party driver and browse to the driver for your raid motherboard. This will be on your motherboard CD, once you do this install as normal.

 

When installing XP you can press F6 to install third party driver when do u get this option in Vista?

 

It comes up on the main setup screen and gives a radio button to click. Its a lot better than the old crappy xp message that you usually miss You can also have the driver on cd rom as well and you just click the browse button to find it. No messing about with floppy disks.

 

sorry dudes went out last night

i have xp on RAID 0/stripe just now using the MSI mother board with integral raid controler. so do i start the installation with Vista first then load up my drivers create RAID thenrestart with vista?

my disks are identical, i do have a spare disk lying around but its not the same type or size.

cheers for the imput guys

 

i would never reccomend you raid0 an OS disk!!!!!!!!



infact, i wouldnt reccomend you do it to anyting really. what happens when youre disk fails...?

whoops...

 

just reinstall my o/s makes no odds wether its RAID 0 or just a single disk, if it fails it fails.

nothing too important on the system that isn't backed up and its ran fine fit 0 on xp the last two years.

 

Installed Vista Ultimate last week to replace xp pro and i havent looked back since, everything works/installed fine

Aero looks the dogs danglies

 

Where does it say its a software RAID

 

If Vista doesnt recognise the RAID array, unplug all your IDE disks until Vista is installed

 

The majority of motherboard raid is software based meaning it requires drivers and functionality to be built into the OS... A true RAID setup is dependent upon a controller, im yet to see a motherboard raid capable of RAID 5+1 with hot swapping
Motherboards which indicate a RAID controllers often have simply a standard disk controller with a BIOS extension implementing RAID in software for the early part of the boot process. A special operating system driver then takes over the raid functionality when the system switches into protective mode.

Show me motherboard RAID that works well in Windows95 or 98

 

Sorry, I was assuming that everyone installed SATA disks for RAID

 

I have installed raid 0 on my new system. Once I had the files up and running I made an image/backup so in the event of a failure I will just reimage the drives.

I am running raid on a gigabyte p35 chipset and it runs fantastic. If setting up raid 0 for an OS then have a 3rd drive and store all your important data on that. I have 2x 80GB sata2 drives for the OS, a 200GB for data storage and 2x sata 120GB's in a non raid configuration.

I have stored my backup image on another 80GB drive I have which is not fitted to the computer and a backup on one of the 120GB's fitted to the system.