Habanerosky
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If you read my sig you know I have an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. A common problem with this board is that it is hard (or impossible) to SATA(II) RAID.
I bought the two seagates that are in my specs specifically to RAID0 them and replace the two IDE dinosaurs that I had. The only way that I am able to get into a RAID selection interface is to enable nVidia RAID (which is buggy as all hell) through the BIOS. When I do this, I am able to tell the RAID firmware to RAID0 these two drives, but when windows loads, it just tells me that there are two unidentified drives and there is an unknown RAID controller.
At this point I go straight to www.asus.com (the slowest, most brokenlink computer related website ever). I download the SATAII drivers and the RAID drivers. The RAID drivers fail midway through the installation and the SATAII diskette that I make (which I assume is only made for OS installation) doesn't work when I boot.
After both of these options fail, I go back to the ASUS website with a new determination to flash my BIOS (I had heard somewhere that the new BIOS would have more compatibility with RAIDing seagate disks). First I download the new bios (500kb .rom file that took like 8 hours to DL thanks to ASUS's supreme servers), and then I downloaded the BIOS flashing tool installer.
Now the most aggrivating part yet:
When I try to install the BIOS flashing utility it stops and gives me two error messages. The first reads something like:
and the second one says one of two things:
1.
or
2.
This is driving me nutts, I've used SATA RAID arrays in two computers prior to this pain in the ass... Does anyone have some advice?
p.s. ASUStek's tech support is an abomination, I called the other day to ask about RAIDing this thing, and the guy just kept explaining to me the difference between RAID0 and RAID1; eventually he just hung up on me...
I bought the two seagates that are in my specs specifically to RAID0 them and replace the two IDE dinosaurs that I had. The only way that I am able to get into a RAID selection interface is to enable nVidia RAID (which is buggy as all hell) through the BIOS. When I do this, I am able to tell the RAID firmware to RAID0 these two drives, but when windows loads, it just tells me that there are two unidentified drives and there is an unknown RAID controller.
At this point I go straight to www.asus.com (the slowest, most brokenlink computer related website ever). I download the SATAII drivers and the RAID drivers. The RAID drivers fail midway through the installation and the SATAII diskette that I make (which I assume is only made for OS installation) doesn't work when I boot.
After both of these options fail, I go back to the ASUS website with a new determination to flash my BIOS (I had heard somewhere that the new BIOS would have more compatibility with RAIDing seagate disks). First I download the new bios (500kb .rom file that took like 8 hours to DL thanks to ASUS's supreme servers), and then I downloaded the BIOS flashing tool installer.
Now the most aggrivating part yet:
When I try to install the BIOS flashing utility it stops and gives me two error messages. The first reads something like:
and the second one says one of two things:
1.
or
2.
(no "ABOOTED" is not a typo)
This is driving me nutts, I've used SATA RAID arrays in two computers prior to this pain in the ass... Does anyone have some advice?
p.s. ASUStek's tech support is an abomination, I called the other day to ask about RAIDing this thing, and the guy just kept explaining to me the difference between RAID0 and RAID1; eventually he just hung up on me...
