Computer Storage Solutions

Like if I have 3 partitions on one drive along with the data, will it be mirrored the same on the second drive?
I have a External Raid Box for the mirroring..

If it’s pure hardware RAID through the BIOS it mirrors the drive (or one partition - it depends on how you set it up). If it’s RAID in software through the operating system it’s usually only that partition.

but when i plug them into sata 1 and sata 2 they dont work. So the issue i get is I get 2 hard drives working but not the other two. What, bios dosent see them at all please help
I have 4 hard drives total and they are sata.

One of the hard drives should be set as master and the others as slave.The master drive is the one that will have the OS installed on it so if it is set as master the bios will detect it,also one of your cd drives must be slave.Also check the cords and see if they are all powered in power supply

It indicates to use a Marvel controller on the eSATA. What about internal?

the Marvel controller is built into the motherboard mate your fine

needs to support SATA II speed, I need it for RAID 0 configuration. I am looking for a performance increase. My motherboard is an ASUS P5Q SE PLUS, which even though on the ASUS website it says it supports raid, for some reason mine doesnt. It’s like it was disabled on my motherboard or something.
The setting to enable RAID in the bios was not there. Also, pressing ctrl+l did not do anything.
The site does in fact say it supports it in the online manual, and in all the driver downloads.

Did you check the BIOS to enable the RAID?

You must enable the RAID in BIOS.

Im trying to install xp on a laptop and have come across the error "windows did not find and hard disks on your computer"

this is a common error which i am solving by slipstreaming the drivers using nLite.

the problem is that i dont know what sata raid drivers i need. i have a gateway mt6707 laptop

You could try an automatic driver update utility. It will scan your system to identify the devices and then locate and download the proper drivers for each device. I use the one from here: http://www.pcdriverupdate.com Just download the free scan and see if it finds what you need.

I hope it helps you. Good luck fixing it.

I have XP on IDE drive and want to use new SATA drive for storage. After install it shows up in Device Manager as working properly, but ‘My Computer’ only shows c:\ drive. Is there a way I can get around re-installing windows just to get a raid controller?
Thanks. Formatting right now. Do I still need a raid controller though?

If its a brand new drive, you need for format it and assign it a drive letter before it will show up. You can do all that in Control Panel => Admin Tools => Computer Management.

Please no links. I cant set up the array properly. The manual for the BIOS says it can set up both mirror and stripe but I cant get past setting up the array. The largest disk is 250gb that is an IDE the SATA is 80GB. I dont know wat im doing and I dont know how to make it stop now.

First a raid has to have matching drives. So that mean you need two 250gb HD or two 80BB HD.
Using 80 Gig HD
Type Description # of Drives Size Data Protection
Raid 0.. Mirrored drives. 2 80 Yes
Raid 1.. Striped Drives 2 160 NO
Raid 0+1 Both 4 160 YES

You can setup JABD Raid but it is really a radde drive it just a spanaded drive.

I have an 80 GB amd a 250 GB amd its trying to abreviate it to one 160GB disk. I want them to remain seperate disks.

Use JBOD or simply turn RAID mode off in your SATA controller’s BIOS.

First of all I can’t seem to get these drivers from intel. A link would also be helpful.
I’ve tried three times but it’s not working and I think I mounted the wrong drivers using nLite. I also searched and didn’t get anywhere.
I am trying to install a fresh copy of Win Xp Pro SP3 but it doesn’t have sata+raid drivers on it. Usually I used to get one with them and install it without a sweat but this time I wanted to do it on my own. I keep getting the following error message:

Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer.
Make sure any hard disk drivers are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct.

Any help please!

You need to identify which specific RAID/SATA drivers you need, sir, before you try installing them. (It will be based on your specific motherboard, and which chipset the motherboard has.)

The reason you’re getting the error message is because it’s not recognising [recognizing] your SATA hard drive.

I have an Asus P5N-T motherboard that offers a great range of onboard SATA raid. I am only interested in RAID 0 with 2x 10k rpm Raptor HDDs.
My question is: will a PCIe SATA RAID controller make my RAID 0 setup any faster? I was thinking at an Adaptec card with 3Gb/s transfer rate.

thanks

no