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SATA & Supermicro H8DCE

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happyraul

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I have put together a new system with a Supermicro H8DCE, and I'm having problems adding hard drives to the system. I initially installed Windows XP on two hard drives in RAID 0. Once I got drivers, updates, etc, I wanted to add my three spare SATA drives.

The board has eight SATA ports, four called Master, four called Slave, and each group of four can have Nvidia RAID enabled or disabled. Not wanting to use RAID on the three drives, I turned off RAID for the "Slave" ports (obviously RAID is on for the "Master" ports where the two hard drives running in RAID 0 are connected).

So I hooked up the three drives to the slave ports, hooked up power, and booted Windows. All the drives, including the two running in RAID 0, show up in the system tray under the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon. The RAID 0 drives show up as a single drive in Disk Management, but none of the other three drives are there! The only place I see them is in the system tray. What am I doing wrong? How do I install them properly so that I can access the data on them and use them?

Thanks in advance!
 
From what I understand, nVidia provides a separate RAID and non-RAID driver. Could it be that there is a driver limitation that prvents people from using single disks when the RAID-driver is installed?

Have you tried running the nVraid setup and creating a JBOD with a single of the HDDs you are trying to add?
 
Hmmm that is a good idea. I will try that when I get home from work. Thanks!
 
please let me know if that works out, since I may be getting that problem myself in the future.
 
Whoopsie.
Actually, shouldn't be the nvraid. With nvraid disabled, Slaves present as JBOD. You need to make sure the nF2050 driver is installed and enabled, not just the nF2200 driver. You should show multiple SATA controllers, one as a 2200-based RAID and the other as the 2050.
 
I didn't see your post before trying drizzt81's suggestion...

So I enabled raid on the 'slave' ports and made each drive its own JBOD, and when I booted windows they showed up and I was able to get to my data. So that worked. Thanks!
 
is there a difference between single drive JBOD and normal single drives? ie, if I moved the JBOD drive to a completely different system would it still be recognized?
 
Can't say I know, as I haven't tested. It realistically could go either way, though frankly, it should period. But what should happen and what nVidia does are frequently different.
 
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