I have the above board and i have 2 maxtor 250 sata2 drives when i conect
them to the sli3114 i make the non-raid driver disk and start windows
installer and press f6 and install the sli3114 driver and windows starts
installing after the first part has installed the system reboots and then
fails to start the rest of the windows install saying the the ius no boot
device, if i put the drive on the nforce4 sata side the switch on the bios
sees the drive and when i try to install windows xp pro it wont install
unless i set the jumper to 150 compatability then it will install, anyone
know how to get the sil3114 to boot.

Regards

Graham

Graham Prout wrote:
> I have the above board and i have 2 maxtor 250 sata2 drives when i conect
> them to the sli3114 i make the non-raid driver disk and start windows
> installer and press f6 and install the sli3114 driver and windows starts
> installing after the first part has installed the system reboots and then
> fails to start the rest of the windows install saying the the ius no boot
> device, if i put the drive on the nforce4 sata side the switch on the bios
> sees the drive and when i try to install windows xp pro it wont install
> unless i set the jumper to 150 compatability then it will install, anyone
> know how to get the sil3114 to boot.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
>

hi select jbod if you have a single disk on the sil...

coco

Thanks that did the JBOD great
"Robert Hancock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> milleron wrote:
>> I think OP has TWO drives. Does implementing JBOD necessarily have to
>> span all the attached drives into one larger virtual drive?
>
> No. That would be RAID 0, 1, etc.
>
>> Is there
>> a way to allow all the individual SATA drives attached to a SI
>> controller to actually show up in the BIOS and OS as themselves?
>
> Yes, that's what JBOD does. (Just A Bunch of Disks)
>
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I have now setup 2 x 250 sata2`s as 2 individual jbod`s and installed
windows xp on one and windows xp 64 bit on the other and they are both
individual drives running as individual drive.

Graham


"milleron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:11:12 GMT, Robert Hancock
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>milleron wrote:
>>> I think OP has TWO drives. Does implementing JBOD necessarily have to
>>> span all the attached drives into one larger virtual drive?
>>
>>No. That would be RAID 0, 1, etc.
> Nope, see below.
>>
>>> Is there
>>> a way to allow all the individual SATA drives attached to a SI
>>> controller to actually show up in the BIOS and OS as themselves?
>>
>>Yes, that's what JBOD does. (Just A Bunch of Disks)
>
> Well, that's exactly what I always thought, but if you read the
> current manuals on the SI3114 carefully, they explain that JBOD
> *spans* "just a bunch of disks." For example, JBOD could turn a 40GB
> disk, an 80GB disk and another 80GB disk into a 200GB virtual disk.
> This would most definitely not be RAID 0 or 1, and it would not allow
> the individual disks to be directly formatted and identified in the
> OS. (You could partition the virtual disk as a 200GB extended
> partition and then create one 40GB and two 80GB logical drives, but if
> one of the physical disks went out, you'd lose the entire partition
> and all three logical drives.)
> So if one wants to install a SINGLE physical drive in JBOD on the
> SI3114 ports, what you see is what you get is what you want. But I'm
> asking whether there's a way for the JBOD setting to allow individual
> drives to be attached and recognized as such. This is a piece of cake
> on the nForce-controlled SATA ports -- just refrain from installing
> the RAID driver. I'd like to hear from anyone who's successfully
> installed multiple non-RAID drives on the SI3114 ports to know if it
> can be done and exactly how to go about it.
>
> Ron