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Mikko Peltoniemi

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Since: Jan 26, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:16 pm
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I have S3870G2NR-RS Tiger K8SSA motherboard, and I want to setup RAID 1
on it. But I can't find the RAID setup anywhere.

What am I missing here? How do I do that with this board?

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BC

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:53 am
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Mikko Peltoniemi wrote:
> I have S3870G2NR-RS Tiger K8SSA motherboard, and I want to setup RAID 1
> on it. But I can't find the RAID setup anywhere.
>
> What am I missing here? How do I do that with this board?

Dear Mikko,

here is a link to the manual:

http://www.tyan.com/manuals/m_s3870_100.pdf

Interestingly enough, not a bit of discussion in the manual about
setting up RAID, and, from what I could see, no BIOS options for RAID.
(I have a Tyan S2565, and RAID is set in the BIOS...)


I assume (ass-U-ME) that you run some version of Windows. Here is a
link to the Tyan driver page with SATA RAID Drivers:

http://www.tyan.com/support_download_drivers.aspx?model=S.S3870


And, here is a link to the BIOS page:

http://www.tyan.com/support_download_bios.aspx?model=S.S3870

*Note version 1.03 adds some RAID options*....depending on your BIOS
version, it might be that updating it will give you some RAID options
like the S2865 has.


Otherwise, it looks to me like you have to use the F6 option to install
the RAID driver when you install Windows. (Again, assuming you do use
Windows....)


HTH,

BC

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Mikko Peltoniemi

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:52 pm
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BC wrote:

> Interestingly enough, not a bit of discussion in the manual about
> setting up RAID, and, from what I could see, no BIOS options for RAID.
> (I have a Tyan S2565, and RAID is set in the BIOS...)

Right. The manual talks about RAID, except it does not talk about the
setup. And I can't find any options in BIOS.

> I assume (ass-U-ME) that you run some version of Windows. Here is a
> link to the Tyan driver page with SATA RAID Drivers:
>
> http://www.tyan.com/support_download_drivers.aspx?model=S.S3870

I tried these too, but the Windows 2003 warned that it couldn't verify
that the driver was correct for my system. I went ahead anyway, and
the system wouldn't boot.

That all was so odd, that I started suspecting that maybe Newegg had
shipped me a MB without RAID, instead of one with RAID. But all the
model numbers match, not just with the packaging, but the MB/BIOS
itself.

> *Note version 1.03 adds some RAID options*....depending on your BIOS
> version, it might be that updating it will give you some RAID options
> like the S2865 has.

Mine is 1.05, so it doesn't look like that is the issue either.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:00 pm
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Paul wrote:

> This is the test I would try. Enter the BIOS. Change the mode to
> S-ATA. INT13 should be enabled, to load the RAIDCore Add-in ROM.
> Save and exit the BIOS. When POST begins, press <ctrl-R> and see
> if the Broadcom RAID screen appears. Other than that, talk to Tyan
> tech support Smile

Thanks, Paul. You did quite a bit of work, unfortunately it did
not help, though. I had already enabled the Native SATA mode before
(which was disabled by default). It did change things in Windows
Device Manager though. Ctrl-R did nothing.

I did fire an email to Tyan's email support, so I'll see if they
respond, and I'll post the response here as well.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:47 am
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Ok, so I got a response from Tyan's support... It took a long time. But
anyway, what I can gather from their reponse is that I don't have the
RAID board... Which is odd, since the model number on the package
points to the RAID version. And nothing suggested that it had been
opened and swapped. Crap.

Oh well, at least I wasn't going crazy.
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