ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - Onboard RAID

[Tolly]

Firslty, hello everyone :wave: , I'm a long time reader, first time poster! :cool:

This site is great, I've never learnt so much as I have from reading the posts on this site!

I hope someone can give me a little guidance.

I've just purchased the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherbaord, along with 2x Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA V 80GB hard drives.

The main reason I went for this ASUS board, was due to it's great hype on here, and the fact it has RAID builtin.

I've never used RAID before, but I know that I was to setup disk mirroring (RAID 1) I think?

My question is (finally :rolleyes: )

When I put this hardware together, do I go into the BIOS and say I want to use RAID 1, and then go ahead and install 2000 Server.

When I've loaded 2000 server, do I need to configure the o/s to support RAID 1 , or has the Bios taken care of this roll.

I hope this makes sense, and any help or dummy guides you know of , would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

[Hawk]

Originally posted by Tolly
Firslty, hello everyone :wave: , I'm a long time reader, first time poster! :cool:

This site is great, I've never learnt so much as I have from reading the posts on this site!

I hope someone can give me a little guidance.

I've just purchased the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherbaord, along with 2x Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA V 80GB hard drives.

The main reason I went for this ASUS board, was due to it's great hype on here, and the fact it has RAID builtin.

I've never used RAID before, but I know that I was to setup disk mirroring (RAID 1) I think?

My question is (finally :rolleyes: )

When I put this hardware together, do I go into the BIOS and say I want to use RAID 1, and then go ahead and install 2000 Server.

When I've loaded 2000 server, do I need to configure the o/s to support RAID 1 , or has the Bios taken care of this roll.

I hope this makes sense, and any help or dummy guides you know of , would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance


Yes, setup RAID 1 in the BIOS which is Mirroring. . . The OS sees the setup as 1 drive. You do not have to configure RAID in the OS.

[Kevin'sPC's]

Hi,
I have not used the P4C800, I use the Asus P4P800-Deluxe (i865). Great choice.

For the P4P800-Deluxe it is like this,

B4 Load OS I always save a copy of original bios then upgrade to the latest bios. (Surface test that floppy first)

Did you first disable the ATA133 Raid controller. (Maybe VT6410)
Because if you are using two SATA, the ATA133 controllers are not controlling any drives. Your CDRW/DVD should be on secondary IDE.

In bios did you configure two SATA drives as RAID, go down to bottom option and enable SATA as RAID. (Not exactly sure what the P4C800 bios says) I don't have a P4P800-Deluxe in front of me or I would verify every word is correct.

Reboot Press Cntrl+I. This will take you in to choose type of RAID to create. Create RAID1 save and exit. I have yet to do this and it may be different w/ P4C800 board.

Then B4 loading OS, make the floppy from ASUS CD under DRIVERS\CHIPSET\IAA. A file called makedisk.exe will make IAA SATA RAID driver diskette. During OS setup, press F6 to specify driver and later press S to specify driver on floppy.

If you made the floppy prior to loading OS and pressed F6 at beginning and S to specify, you should be go to go. Check Device Manager to be sure.

Never trust a floppy to be good. Allways take to a Windows 98 PC and run scandisk a: /surface to make sure floppy has no bad spots. 98's Scandisk will give a report while XP's chkdsk doesn't.

AsusTek Tech Support = 1-502-995-0883.

Good Luck