A7N8X-E Serial ATA RAID Software

[KALLE]

I'm building two PCs with A7N8X-E and two Samsung SP1604C Serial ATA
discs in a mirrored configuration.

RAID is working fine, just a bit to smooth for me:

- If I disconnect a drive while W2K is running, nothing happens. The
PC just acts like nothing has happen.

- If I reboot SATA-BIOS just shows a flashing notice for 5 seconds.

So a hd failure might be undetected for weeks. (Or for eternity, since
both will be operated by "dumb" users.)

That's not what I understand as "enhanced data security"


I installed the "silicon_v10033.zip" GUI software from ASUS.

But it seems to me that it's not working properly, beacuse it doesn't
show any information about my RAID config etc, just a box with my
computer name. (nothing happens if I click it)

Shouldn'd I see more informations?

A7N8X-E BIOS 1007 & 1008
Athlon XP 2800-333
2 x 512MB DDR 333
2 x Samsung SP1604C
Matrox G550
Windows 2000 SP4

This PCs are not intended to be connected to the internet, so they
don't have TCP/IP. (But I also treyed it with TCP/IP enabled)
Does anybody know on which services the GUI relies on, if any at all?


read you!

KALLE

 

[Ben Pope]

I'm building two PCs with A7N8X-E and two Samsung SP1604C Serial ATA
discs in a mirrored configuration.

RAID is working fine, just a bit to smooth for me:

- If I disconnect a drive while W2K is running, nothing happens. The
PC just acts like nothing has happen.

- If I reboot SATA-BIOS just shows a flashing notice for 5 seconds.

So a hd failure might be undetected for weeks. (Or for eternity, since
both will be operated by "dumb" users.)

That's not what I understand as "enhanced data security"


I installed the "silicon_v10033.zip" GUI software from ASUS.

There's a .40 driver if you're interested... you know where to look

But it seems to me that it's not working properly, beacuse it doesn't
show any information about my RAID config etc, just a box with my
computer name. (nothing happens if I click it)

On mine (two SATA drives, not in RAID) the GUI shows the computer name as
the root of a tree, with the SI-3112U-0 device under it, and each channel
under that, and each drive plugged into each channel. In addition to the
channels, there is a sets node, which I presume to be RAID partitions.

There are various event levels that you can set, ranging from none to
informational, warnings, and errors. Upon that event, an email can be sent.
Additionally there are popups that can be set with the same levels.

I thought I had .40 installed, but the about tab says 1,0,0,19 - just
reinstalled and the same, so I presume the GUI has remained the same version
for a while.

Shouldn'd I see more informations?

A7N8X-E BIOS 1007 & 1008
Athlon XP 2800-333
2 x 512MB DDR 333
2 x Samsung SP1604C
Matrox G550
Windows 2000 SP4

This PCs are not intended to be connected to the internet, so they
don't have TCP/IP.

How did you manage to sneak that one past Win2K? I thought you couldn't
remove TCP/IP? I wouldn't recommend it, many of the services required to do
non-network things have interfaces that connect via TCP/IP (to localhost).

If you don't intend to connect them to the internet, don't, but IP is pretty
useful even when you're not connected to the internet per se.

(But I also treyed it with TCP/IP enabled)
Does anybody know on which services the GUI relies on, if any at all?

I'd imagine it talks directly to the driver. I can't find anything in the
import table that's obvious.

Ben

 

[KALLE]

There's a .40 driver if you're interested... you know where to look

It took me some time to find it
But it seems to solve my Problem.

read you!

KALLE

 

[Ben Pope]

It took me some time to find it

You didn't check my site?

But it seems to solve my Problem.

Excellent

Ben