ASUS P5AD2-E Premium -- SATA RAID1 Sil Monitor shows REDUCED

[Mkc451]

I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium setup with 4 SATA Hitachi 120gb drives.
I configured them at boot with the SiL configure tool. Drives 0&1 are
mirrored, drives 2&3 are mirrored. I am running Win2003 Server ..

In the SiL manager(SAM), the first set shows as Legacy RG0 with status
of "ONLINE" .. the second shows as Legacy RG1 w/status of "REDUCED" I
can not find anywhere what "REDUCED" means, but I suspect it's not
good. This is going to be a test bed for a DB2 BLOB application w/Lotus
Notes so I need all the perf I can get.

I emailed ASUS tech support but not answer. Anyone else seen this
and have a answer or place too look??

 

[Paul]

I have an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium setup with 4 SATA Hitachi 120gb drives.
I configured them at boot with the SiL configure tool. Drives 0&1 are
mirrored, drives 2&3 are mirrored. I am running Win2003 Server ..

In the SiL manager(SAM), the first set shows as Legacy RG0 with status
of "ONLINE" .. the second shows as Legacy RG1 w/status of "REDUCED" I
can not find anywhere what "REDUCED" means, but I suspect it's not
good. This is going to be a test bed for a DB2 BLOB application w/Lotus
Notes so I need all the perf I can get.

I emailed ASUS tech support but not answer. Anyone else seen this
and have a answer or place too look??

Page 83 of the Matrix RAID manual, doesn't show a "reduced".
Troubleshooting procedures are on page 86.
This is all I could find.

ftp://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/manual45_oem.pdf

Paul

 

[Mkc451]

Windows Update has downloaded to SiL driver updates in the last couple
of days and the problem seems to have resolved itself. Might have been
SilconeManager Sata Controller problem w/the driver. Thanx for the
quick response.