PING: Richard Hopkins et. al., Re: Enabling ICH5R SATA RAID on IC7-G

I started a thread about 10 days ago, regarding changing the Intel SATA 1 & 2
controller to RAID mode AFTER installing W2K with the controller in normal mode.

Richard's suggestion of booting from SATA 3 with the SATA 1&2 ctrlr set to RAID
mode (no drives attached), then allowing W2K to install the drivers when it
detected the new hardware, then moving the boot drive back to SATA 1 was the
ticket. It went perfectly smoothly and the Intel ctrlr is now functioning as
expected in RAID mode (although I have not yet implemented a RAID array on it -
that project is a couple of weeks away).

Thanks, Richard, for the pointer to that procedure. ;o)

With the Intel controller set to RAID mode in the BIOS, and only a single drive
atttached, you do see the Intel RAID ROM notice in the 2nd POST screen but there
is no Ctrl-I prompt unless there are 2 drives attached to the controller. This
is understandable since there's no need to diddle with the RAID array if there's
no hardware present to support it.

Kurt

 

bear in mind that the Intel Application Accelerator Raid version has a tool
to convert a non-raid configuration to raid configuration with data on the
drive(s). I have not tested it but I have read up on it so you may want to
check into that... Intel describes the functionality in their docs for the
IAA-R.

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Anyone know the benefit of setting it up in this configuration?

 

Hey Kurt, glad to hear that the procedure went according to plan!

As Tom says, the Intel controller's software suite apparently includes a
migration tool that allows you to convert one populated drive and one blank
one into a RAID array, although I haven't tried it!

Let us know what happens if/when you do though, as, if nothing else, we'll
be able to recommend it. Make sure you back the data up before you run the
wizard tho, I wouldn't like to have to cope with the consequences of the
original drive's contents being lost!
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