Re: OT: Need help with SATA raid

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

assuming you're not on Linux and you are on windows!! I had a few
funny problems on Sunday installing two sata drives.  after some
reading around I found that some mobo's don't like a smaller drive
being on the first channel.  Apparently some prefer the bigger drive
being first.

also some don't like drives being set to the full 300 speed, some
drives have a jumper to set it to 150.  Only one of my drives (a
western digital) had this jumper but when I set that correctly then my
machine found both drives with no problems.

I'm not using Raid but I guess if you can get the system to see the
drives then thats the first hurdle sorted!!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Ian Oliver <lists@f...> wrote:
>
> In article <djo8pj+tu53@e...>, Drawllimuk wrote:
> > I have a motherboard
> > that has both Nvidia raid (sata raid 1-4) and silicon image raid
> > (ports 5-8) I have connected two identical sata drives to it, put
the
> > system can only find one drive.
>
> Assuming you're running Linux, can you post the relevant parts of
dmesg
> and maybe also lspci?
>
> Are you wanting to use hardware raid or are you going to use mdadm or
> similar? I've found mdadm on Linux to be a great way to handle raid 5
> arrays.
>
> > I am right in thinking that sata
> > drives don't have jumpers?
>
> Yes, no master/slave rubbish.
>
> Ian Oliver
> Sunny Leeds, UK
> Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire
>