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> My RAID
>
> I just replaced my IDE drives with 2 SATA (Seagate 300GB) drives, and
> plan to use one of the IDE drives in an external Firewire/USB
> enclosure. I got them running just fine, but the SATA RAID controller
> gave me a lot of trouble. When I pressed "F6" to load SATA driver
> during the WinXP install, there was no response (I tried several
> times). I did eventually get another chance to load the driver (I
> downloaded the latest from Asus) because the install program got to a
> screen saying windows did not detect any drives, press "S" to load
> third party drivers.
> Performance in the game I am playing (I reinstalled it from scratch and
> copied back the saved game files, it was running just fine on my
> Western Digital IDE drive) is very choppy and it seems the drive
> intermitantly struggles, so I wonder if I screwed something up in the
> configuration (since RAID0 is supposed to improve performance).
Lots of people seem to thnk that RAID0 improves performance.
The truth is that sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
On a desktop system, it rarely improves it noticeably, and for the
hassle factor, I think too many people bother.
> Now, when I am instructed at boot to press F4 to enter SATA RAID
> interface, I press F4 and nothing happens (the boot sequence just keeps
> going until windows is loaded (again, tried many times).
Do you have a Logitech, MS or other keyboard with an F-Lock function?
On my keyboard on my A7N8X Deluxe, I *think* it ignored the F-Keys until
I hit F-Lock.
> I think what I want to do now is remove the RAID0 and just use the two
> SATA drives without RAID. Any help would be appreciated!
If you don't need the data, thats easy... if you do... I suspect you can
whack it on one of your "spare" drives?
Ben
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