GA-7N400 Pro2 ITE RAID MODE 1 PROBLEM - Please help

External Since: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 2

Hi, I am setting up raid for the first time on a new system with
the ga-7n400 pro2. Simple questions for you pro's please clear
this up for me. Heres what I am doing:

IDE3 has 160GB maxtor master
IDE4 has 160GB maxtor maxter

I went into the bios raid utility, set the drives to Mode 1, with the
quick setup, everything seemed ok. Then I began my fresh install
of winXP pro, hit F6 it later asked for driver floppy which I created
from the CD files. After install with long format , I load the mainboard
drivers and windows XP shows the proper raid drivers installed.

Here is my problem/questions: I noticed that the hard drive showed
up as 305GB. I figured that it should have been 160GB so I loaded
the windows raid monitoring utility that came with the mainboard
RaidMgr, and it shows that the capacity is 305GB and raid type
is JOBD instead of Mode 1. Frustrated I rebooted and checked the
bios raid utility and it said now that it was set to Raid 0 instead of
Raid 1????? So my specific questions:

What should my capacity be listed by RaidMgr and the drive in "My Computer"?
What should I believe, the bios raid manager or the windows one for "Raid
Type"?
Any idea why it changed from Mode 1 to one of these other ones?
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
You can post on the board or email me at doarsfreebies(at)hotmail.com
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External Since: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 22

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"Steve Peterson" <nospam.DeleteThis@nospam.nospam> wrote in
news:T-GdnYoIx5EwcH6iRVn-gw@cableone.com:

> What should my capacity be listed by RaidMgr and the drive in "My
> Computer"? What should I believe, the bios raid manager or the windows
> one for "Raid Type"?
> Any idea why it changed from Mode 1 to one of these other ones?
> Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
> You can post on the board or email me at doarsfreebies(at)hotmail.com
> (change the
> (at) for @, just did that to minimize bot email harvesters)
>
>

If you're seeing the total capacity in XP, then it's running either RAID0
or JBOD. RAID1 would show just the capacity of a single drive and ignore
the mirror. Sounds like you need to start over, maybe skip the quick setup
and do custom (or whaatever they call it)? Probably get the same board
for myself in a few weeks. Good luck.

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