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Onboard sil3114 raid5 flaky?

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Anyone tried this?

I find that windows can see the drive (xp pro-32 bit), and can attempt to format it, but the format always fails (quick format). If I do a normal format it formats at about 1%/HOUR (not joking).


it's a raid5 of 4 x 400GB seagate drives using motherboard raid of an iwill dk8x.

Thanks for any tips.
 
from my experiences raid arrays are very sensitive to your raid bios & matching driver.

Make sure you are using the most current of both and report back.
 
Well...silicon images site doesn't have windows drivers (or perhaps I'm blind). If someone knows where to get the latest, drop me a link. I'm using the one from the motherboard manufacturers site.

I have the latest motherboard bios.

Could it be an NCQ problem??? I looked on seagates site and can't find a way to turn this off. They say it's not user changeable.

I have it where the entire PC locks up when doing access to any of the sata drives.

Anyone seen this before?

Rob
 
I know some hard drives do not like to be in a RAID. You might want to call up the hard drive mfg and check that your models are alright to be RAID'd. That could also be the issue.

If that's the case then see if you can exchange them for a model that is alright.
 
Even if I use them as individual drives, they still lock up.....so I think it's something with the sata drivers
 
Being that you just built your rig, are you sure its all stable and configured properly? Could there be something else perhaps locking up the system?

Try booting from a IDE drive and see how that goes. Run some stress tests.
 
I've used this rig for over a year with IDE with no problems (XP home/FreeBSD). I figured a new install of xp pro would be good to take advantage of my second proc, so I bought a HD (IDE) at newegg along with xp pro-32 for ~ $300'ish.

Now that I am actually TRYING to use the onboard SATA everything is going goofy.

To add something even stranger...

with 4 identical drives 372GB Ea. in raid10, shouldn't my available storage be 372*2 = 744GB? Why would the raid/bios say only 372G is available when using 4 drives? I can't make sense of this at all.

TIA,
Rob
 
RAID 5 doesnt exist in the 3114, its done in software using the specified driver on thier website. You will not get decent performance with the CPU doing all the parity stuff for it especially using the PCI bus, if you want RAID 5 go for a real hardware based solution.
 
The 3114 is using the PCI bus, the 3132 is using PCI-E.
RAID 10 I think is there, RAID 5 is definetly done completly in software.
 
So I've tried setting up raid10.

If I add the 4 drives into the raid 10, i can chose the size of 744GB. if I click "y" to "are you sure?" it then shows "logical drive 372GB".

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH

is this completely flaky or what? This is in the sil3114 bios screen before windows boots.

Rob
 
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