Drives Idling

[doomshd]

First off, just want to give a huge shout out to everyone on this forum. This is my first post on your forums, though I have known of this forum for quiet sometime. I know a few are from Overclockers Forums, I too am from OCF. So just to introduce myself.... I'm doomshd .

Anyhow, I am displeased my first post has to be a troubleshooting one... but here it goes :-/.

I recently built a new system using the GA-EX58-UD5 board. It claims built in RAID(1,3,5 If I am not mistaken) and JBOD support. My situation is simple.. I'm running it in JBOD and using my raptor as a primary/os drive and then using my two 1tb drives for storage. The problem is that it seems as if the two 1tb drives keep stalling out due to idleness. I came to this conclusion after I keep trying to access files on them every 30 minutes or so and then I can hear the drives powering up as if they were waking from sleep mode.

So basically my question, how can I keep the storage drives from idling out in a JBOD type arrangement? Or would I just be better off switching to something such as RAID 5?

 

[maddude]

Probably the OS power save function shutting them down after a while. What OS are you running?

 

[Nenu]

In control panel go to the power options.
Set your drives to 'never' power off.

 

[doomshd]

I'm running Vista, I also thought it was the power options, but it is already set to off.

 

[shady86]

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[Nenu]

Is your PC coming out of sleep mode when this happens?

 

[doomshd]

I wonder why you are not using ICH10R for the drivers instead of Jmicron.

I was under the impression that ICH10R supported RAID 0,1,5 and 10. Does it support JBOD also?

Is your PC coming out of sleep mode when this happens?

I am constantly up on my primary drive, so no, I am not coming out of sleep. It also happens when I am in the middle of things... watching movies or listening to music for example.

 

[AreEss]

I was under the impression that ICH10R supported RAID 0,1,5 and 10. Does it support JBOD also?

ICH10R supports the following modes:
PIO, IDE/UDMA66, SATA, AHCI, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10
So yes. And it's RAID5 blows.

The problem you're describing is highly abnormal. I suspect a failed drive. Possibly motor overheating or a false detection of that. Hard to say. I'd figure it needs RMA'd either way.