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flexkill
08-05-2004, 04:39 PM
i have p4c800 and my board came with this promise fastrack floppy. i just used the floppy to install the harddrives and figured they where in raid mode or whatever its called!!!(i really know nothing about this raid stuff first time :o ) so i am looking at the new intel raid accel utility thats out, and to make a long story short i don't think i am running raid at all!!! can somone help me figure this out and tell me the correct way to do this???
Snafu
08-05-2004, 05:44 PM
I had to create a floppy disk from the CD disk that came with the board. During XP install it asks you to hit crtl-m (cannot recall if this is the right keystrokes) to set-up raid and insert the floppy. I have not done it in a whiles but I think you can use these keystrokes during boot-up to set up a new raid.

If you do have a raid set-up be careful. Messing with it after it is set-up can mess it up and you will loose everything on the raid unless you can restore a back-up (ex. using Acronis True Image and another non-raid hard drive).

How do you tell if you are running a raid? Simplest is to see if you can only see one drive and it is double the size of each drive (i.e., if you have 2-36BG drives then teh raid drive should be seen as 72GB).
flexkill
08-05-2004, 06:19 PM
i guess its working then i have 2 80gb wd's and only reading 1 150 or so gb drive. so thats it huh or more to it??? :scratch:
Snafu
08-05-2004, 07:24 PM
Sounds like it. You can baseline it before trying the accel utility by running ATTO. Pointreyes pointed me to the following thread at ABX
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3076&highlight=atto

This link gives you a link where it can be downloaded and which one to download

The following BE thread about my raid:
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3104

I am not sure if Installing the utility will require that you back-up the raid first so you can restore after the utility is installed. Where did you find the utility? I'm always nervous playing with the raid until you can restore it in case it goes snafu.

P.S> according to Sandra my raid benches at 66MB/s (Atto shows different depending on transfer size - peaked at a write of 104MB/s and 87MB/s to read - it's on the promise controller)