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From: Michael Daly on 7 Jan 2007 14:38
John wrote:

> Intel ICH86/DO/DH SATA RAID Controller:
> Driver date: 5/11/06
> Driver version: 6.0.0.1022
>
> JMicron JMB36X Controller:
> Device type: SCSI and RAID controllers
> Manufacturer: JMicron Technology
> Driver date: 12/5/2006
> Driver version: 1.17.8.1

You might narrow it down if you knew which of these two controllers the drives
were connected to. Is it possible to switch between these two or is the
existing RAID setup exclusive to one of them?

Mike
From: John on 7 Jan 2007 16:57
Michael Daly wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> Intel ICH86/DO/DH SATA RAID Controller:
>> Driver date: 5/11/06
>> Driver version: 6.0.0.1022
>>
>> JMicron JMB36X Controller:
>> Device type: SCSI and RAID controllers
>> Manufacturer: JMicron Technology
>> Driver date: 12/5/2006
>> Driver version: 1.17.8.1
>
> You might narrow it down if you knew which of these two controllers the
> drives were connected to. Is it possible to switch between these two
> or is the existing RAID setup exclusive to one of them?
>
> Mike

That's an excellent question.

I wonder what the consequences will be by disabling a RAID controller?
Will the operating system start? I do have a full OS partition backup,
but still....
From: Michael Daly on 7 Jan 2007 17:43
John wrote:

> I wonder what the consequences will be by disabling a RAID controller?

Since it's a RAID0 config, your drives will look like gibberish to the OS if you
turn off RAID. Disabling one controller in BIOS will result in a boot error if
you disable the one with the disks attached (no drives found or some such
error). You'll always be able to boot to BIOS to reset.

If you have the motherboard manual (you can usually find one online at the
manufacturer's website) you can determine which sockets are for which
controller. Then just look at which one the cables are plugged into.

Mike
From: John on 7 Jan 2007 18:18
Michael Daly wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> I wonder what the consequences will be by disabling a RAID controller?
>
> Since it's a RAID0 config, your drives will look like gibberish to the
> OS if you turn off RAID. Disabling one controller in BIOS will result
> in a boot error if you disable the one with the disks attached (no
> drives found or some such error). You'll always be able to boot to BIOS
> to reset.

I found that out the hard way. I had accidentally set the BIOS settings
to default and I "lost" my drives. Once I reset the BIOS settings I was
good to go.

What I had meant was what would happen if I had go into 'Computer
management console'->'Device Manager'->'SCSI and RAID controllers' and
disabled one of the controllers then restarted the computer?

I'm a little squeamish about doing this at this point until my large
hard disk arrives so that I can first backup the entire hard disk.

>
> If you have the motherboard manual (you can usually find one online at
> the manufacturer's website) you can determine which sockets are for
> which controller. Then just look at which one the cables are plugged into.

I have the manual but I'm not sure what you mean. I plug the cable into
the left-most socket for drive 0 and I plug in drive 1 to the socket to
the right. Like so: http://i10.tinypic.com/2qvgtpt.jpg
> Mike

To answer someone else's question: Yes, I replaced the cable on drive 0.
From: Michael Daly on 7 Jan 2007 19:01
John wrote:

> I have the manual but I'm not sure what you mean. I plug the cable into
> the left-most socket for drive 0 and I plug in drive 1 to the socket to
> the right. Like so: http://i10.tinypic.com/2qvgtpt.jpg

There are four SATA sockets there and you are using two of them. There should
be some other sockets someplace else. One set is controlled by the Intel
chipset and the other by the second controller. I'm guessing the four we see in
the picture are for the Intel chipset and the others are elsewhere - possible
for eSATA and are exposed outside the box. If this is the case, the Intel RAID
controller is kicking out the error message.

Mike
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