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John Geddes

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:55 pm
Post subject: AV8 - using both onboard RAID and a PCI RAID card
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I am trying to set up my Abit AV8 with:

SATA Raid 1 (Mirroring) using onboard as boot disk for XP Pro - so that
I can avoid reinstalling Windows and programs if either disk fails

IDE Raid 0 (Striping) using Highpoint RocketRaid 133 PCI card - so that
I can enjoy faster data access for a database application.

(In due course, I would ideally like to add a single IDE drive using
the onboard IDE-1 connector - but that can wait for now)

The problem is that the IDE Raid array comes up as Disk 0, which I
believe will mean that the moment I create one or more partitions on it,
the first Disk-0 partition will be the one that is used for booting.
Given the two pairs of disks I own, it is much more attractive to have
the 160Mb SATA pair mirrored and the 40Gb IDE pair striped rather than
the other way around.

In the BIOS (v24), the "Hard Disc Boot Priority" offers no choice - the
only entry is "1. Bootable Add-in Cards".

The choice of "Bootable Add-in Device" is either "PCI Slot Device" or
"Onchip SATA RAID". Common sense says that I want to set this to the
Onchip options. No good. Changing to PCI makes no difference - for
either setting, the system recognises the PCI array as Disk 0 and the
SATA array as Disk 1.

Am I stuck with having the AV8 treat the PCI-based Raid array as Disk 0?
And if so, is there any way of having the PC boot from Disk 1?

John Geddes
England

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Carl

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:55 pm
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I had a Highpoint RocketRAID pci addin card. Left the bios setting to
bootable add in cards, then faffed about with the settings for the raid
card, which should show up during the post screens, after the mobo post
screens.

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straiton1

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:55 pm
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wasn't there something about SATA Raid and v24 bios incompatibility.Hafta go
back to an earlier bios?Check abit -usa forums,
CBF looking for it.
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SteveH
Abit AV8 Third Eye v1.1, A64 3200+ at 2430(9x270),1.575V CPU
DIY watercool
Radeon Sapphire 9700

"John Geddes" <john.TakeThisOut@st4rm4rkassociates.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1130703795.24222.0@dyke.uk.clara.net...
>I am trying to set up my Abit AV8 with:
>
> SATA Raid 1 (Mirroring) using onboard as boot disk for XP Pro - so that I
> can avoid reinstalling Windows and programs if either disk fails
>
> IDE Raid 0 (Striping) using Highpoint RocketRaid 133 PCI card - so that I
> can enjoy faster data access for a database application.
>
> (In due course, I would ideally like to add a single IDE drive using
> the onboard IDE-1 connector - but that can wait for now)
>
> The problem is that the IDE Raid array comes up as Disk 0, which I
> believe will mean that the moment I create one or more partitions on it,
> the first Disk-0 partition will be the one that is used for booting. Given
> the two pairs of disks I own, it is much more attractive to have the 160Mb
> SATA pair mirrored and the 40Gb IDE pair striped rather than the other way
> around.
>
> In the BIOS (v24), the "Hard Disc Boot Priority" offers no choice - the
> only entry is "1. Bootable Add-in Cards".
>
> The choice of "Bootable Add-in Device" is either "PCI Slot Device" or
> "Onchip SATA RAID". Common sense says that I want to set this to the
> Onchip options. No good. Changing to PCI makes no difference - for either
> setting, the system recognises the PCI array as Disk 0 and the SATA array
> as Disk 1.
>
> Am I stuck with having the AV8 treat the PCI-based Raid array as Disk 0?
> And if so, is there any way of having the PC boot from Disk 1?
>
> John Geddes
> England
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:55 pm
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"John Geddes" wrote in message...
> The problem is that the IDE Raid array comes up as Disk 0, which I believe
> will mean that the moment I create one or more partitions on it, the first
> Disk-0 partition will be the one that is
> used for booting.

It will if you create a primary partition on the Highpoint array, and make
it active, yes. However, you can head this off at the past by changing the
boot priority in the Advanced Settings section of the BIOS. You shouldn't
have any issues putting drives on the onboard RAID controller above those on
the Highpoint.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:55 am
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I wrote:
>> The problem is that the IDE Raid array comes up as Disk 0, which I
>> believe will mean that the moment I create one or more partitions on
>> it, the first Disk-0 partition will be the one that is
>> used for booting.
>
Richard Hopkins replied:
> It will if you create a primary partition on the Highpoint array, and
> make it active, yes. However, you can head this off at the past by
> changing the boot priority in the Advanced Settings section of the BIOS.
> You shouldn't have any issues putting drives on the onboard RAID
> controller above those on the Highpoint.

UPDATE

That is what I would have expected, but ...

Whichever device I choose under "Bootable Add-in Device" (either
"Onchip SATA RAID" - which is what I want, or "PCI Slot Device" - which
I don't want) makes no difference.

And the Boot Sequence does not acknowledge any RAID arrays - it just
sees a single "Hard Disk" - which is the SATA array (I've tested this by
taking it out of the boot sequence, and the system complains of no
bootable disk)

So - the BIOS seems to know that I want the SATA (onboard) array as my
boot disk, at least as far as the Boot Sequence goes.

But then it goes and loads the PCI-card RAID first as Disk 0!

John Geddes
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