2R1C (Or, two raid cards, one computer)

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I have 2 of these cards
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2667&seq=1&format=2

one that i had a RAID 0 set of 4x 400gig drives, and a new one that i intend to grow to. problem is, is that i can't get the new card to work right. if i have everything connected right, it won't see the second card and the harddrive on it, but, if i disconnect one of the cables to the array, it drops an error on me at boot, and will see the 2nd card and its harddrive. Any advice? Thanks.
 
So you just want to have more ports, essentially?

Are you intending on running two arrays of four-disk RAID 0s (very risky, IMO), or do you want it all to be in one large logical partition...?
 
Yes, more ports, the more the merrier. Im just looking for more space to expand beyond the 1.6 TB RAID 0 array, yes i know if one drive goes the whole shebang goes, its scratch space, not long term storage. I couldnt get the RAID 5 to work on the card, turns out you have to upgrade to the newest firmware to handle it, but as i said, im not interested in redundancy.

I was mostly just looking to add a few more SATA drives to my box, as well as a SATA dvd-r (mobo is PATA).

I can't get the card to show up when the system is booting, but i can get windows to recognize the card, and i installed the proper drivers for it. but i cant see the harddrive i have attached to it (yes, i checked under disk management), nor can i get the 2nd card to display at boot.

Any help would be appreciated
 
Have you tried swapping the working PCI card with the other PCI port to see if the card gets detected that way? Another test would also to be to plug in your second PCI card into the first PCI port with the drives that were originally connected to the card to see if the card itself isn't messed up. Best to rule out all possibilities. :)

As for RAID 5 functionality with those cheap Silicon Image cards, I'm very surprised that they'd even support any sort of RAID 5...of course such an endeavor would definitely be hardware-assisted software RAID, but that's another topic altogether.
 
This is just a guess, but does the mobo support Int 13 during boot? I'm not exactly well versed in what I'm talking about, but I believe that is required for more than one HBA to be seen at boot.

Anybody care to correct me or agree with me?
 
epimetheus said:
This is just a guess, but does the mobo support Int 13 during boot? I'm not exactly well versed in what I'm talking about, but I believe that is required for more than one HBA to be seen at boot.

Anybody care to correct me or agree with me?
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Not sure at all about Int 13, can anyone else help with this?
 
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