C. Tresenriter wrote:
I'm trying to set up RAID 1 array with two 160G WD Caviar disks. Both disks are new and blank POST shows the RAID PCI card but shows one disk as 0 MB. Switching cables, positions on the PCI card and the PCI slots themselves makes no difference. When I go into the SATA setup and choose RAID 1 the program freezes whether I choose automatic or manual setup. Occasionally when I choose RAID 1 (or 0) it tells me there are not enough drives to set up an array,
If anyone experienced with setting up a RAID array might have an educated guess as to whether the PCI card or the mobo may be a cause for this behavior or any other ideas, it would be much appreciated.
If your SATA bios already has troubles with both drives i would suggest the following:
First check your master/slave jumpers on the harddrives (are they correctly set?)
Then check which drive the SATA card does see (on which connector)
Then switch the drives and see if there is any change.
.If not:the drives are both good, either your cable or card id defective, try another cable to exclude one or the other.
.If there is a change (the position of the good drive changes or no drives are seen at all), check the drive which wasn't found in both cases if it is being detected as the only device on the cable.
-If it is being detected:keep fiddling with your Master/slave jumper settings on both drives.
-If it is not detected, the drive's probably defective.
For RAID functionality within any OS, you do require specific drivers to run. About Mandrake 10.0 is stated it has a couple of drivers you can select. Let's just hope your's is amongst them: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
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