Gigabyte Sata2 raid drivers for vista?

[Guest]

ok, so I read the motherboard box and it said Vista ready.

And then after installation, many hours, etc. I find that there are no Vista
Gigabyte SATA2 raid drivers for Vista. Or am I wrong?

My motherboard is the GA-965P-S3

I cannot wait, so is there any motherboard that has most features, must have
raid mirroring that is available now and works completely - meaning that
Vista drivers must be available.

 

[John Barnes]

You might try the Intel website. It's their chipset

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

it is the jmicron chipset that are used by gigabyte and asus. I wish it was
the intel chipset then I would be happy.

Any other ideas?

 

[John Barnes]

The website I went to shows the following for your motherboard
Chipsets
North Bridge Intel P965 Express
South Bridge Intel ICH8

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

you are correct however all the chips are:
Northbridge: Intel® P965 Express Chipset
Southbridge: Intel® ICH8
Marvell 8056 Gigabit LAN Controller
GIGABYTE SATAII controller
Realtek ALC883 8 Channel Audio Codec

It is the Gigabyte SATAII controller that is the one that the RAID driver is
for.
I understand this is the jmicron chip and gigabyte and asus motherboards
have it.

Someone needs to push the chip maker for the drivers.

 

[John Barnes]

Good luck. You will have a lot better luck if you are looking for the
32-bit drivers than the 64-bit. Have been waiting for 64-bit drivers for XP
X64 for a year and a half. Many products never got drivers before newer
models were introduced.

 

[John Barnes]

Did you see the post below who found drivers for the jMicron RAID (though he
said he used the Intel ones on his board) Search Pete Claar for the 17-19th
and you may get some ideas or help

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Saw that but they are not the correct drivers and it may not be actually
valid drivers at all.

 

[Robert Moir]

Hi John,

it is the jmicron chipset that are used by gigabyte and asus. I wish
it was the intel chipset then I would be happy.

On most boards doesn't the jmicron chip just handle odds and ends like the
P-ATA connection and a couple of SATA connections?

Does that board not have some SATA ports that are handled by the intel
chipset to provide your RAID support, letting you use the jmicron controlled
ports as a normal IDE/SATA controller?

 

[Guest]

Hi Robert,

I have read that theIntel ICH8 does not have raid support and this is
provided by the SATA jmicron controller.

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

this gave me ideas and I hunted again. I found that Microsoft had actually
released an updated driver through windows update. Someone has put the
drivers 16.1 on the net and I used these in the boot process. Now the raid is
working and I have vista loaded.

I am quite relieved.

 

[John Barnes]

Great, and thanks for reporting back as this may help others with the same
problem.

 

[Robert Moir]

Hi Robert,

I have read that theIntel ICH8 does not have raid support and this is
provided by the SATA jmicron controller.

You could be right at that.
I'm running an abit ab9 series which uses the ICH8-R which does support
raid. If the GA-965P-S3 has the ICH8 with no 'R' at the end then I think
that's the Intel raid support gone.

sorry about that!