Another array question

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amp88

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Right, I decided to order an enclosure, raid controller card and hard drives the other day. I got in from work today and excitedly installed the drives in the enclosure, stuck the card in, booted the machine, installed the management software for the array, but when I go into it to scan for drives and initialise them it's only showing that 2 drives are connected (one on each of the controllers). I've tried initalising these two drives to see the others connected but no joy. On the front of the enclosure all 8 of the status/power lights are on but on the back only the top 1 light for each of the two 4 port collections is on. I've checked all the drives are connected correctly in their bays so this single top light leads me to believe there's something wrong with my configuration? First thought was jumper settings but I didn't notice any jumpers on the drives when I was installing them. Can someone shed some light on my problem please?

The enclosure is an EnhanceBox E8-PM.
The RAID controller card is a HighPoint RocketRaid 1742.
The drives are all Western Digital WD7500AAKS.

The rest of my PC is as follows:

Athlon 2700+
ASUS A7N8X-D
1GB Corsair RAM

Windows XP.

edit: Here's what the web console looks like. Here's the detailed stats for the drives.

edit2: I'm trying to create a RAID5 array.
 
sorry to tell you but your sol, high point 1000 series including 1742 do not support port multipliers, you need 2000 series card like 2224 or 2304, 2314.
 
i would go with high point card as well but according to the specs the Sil 3124 chipset does support raid 5 and they have raid drivers for it.
 
axan said:
i would go with high point card as well but according to the specs the Sil 3124 chipset does support raid 5 and they have raid drivers for it.
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So it does. But many raid 5 implementations are poorly done - high CPU usage, high latency, low transfer rates. The advantage of the Highpoint cards is you know what you're getting in terms of drivers.
 
I couldn't get a HighPoint card because they don't make a PCI/PCI-X eSata Port Multiplier card.
 
true they don't have any 2000 series pci/pci-x models with esata ports
 
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