Configuring Raid on GA-965P-S3

[neteng1958]

Hi All

I just ordered this board and was looking to see if there was a good reference on how to configure the SATA Raid. Trying to get everything together so I can be ready.

Thanks

 

[Cheex]

Welcome to the forums.


Sorry to burst your bubble but...
This board does not support RAID. It carries the ICH8 South Bridge. RAID is supported by the ICH7R and ICH8R South Bridges. The "R" at the end denotes that it supports RAID.

 

[vailr]

Cheex = uninformed
The 2 JMicron ports DO support Raid.
Get the latest "1.17.08.01 WHQL" JMicron driver here, extract and copy to floppy, for Windows F6 install.
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm

 

[neteng1958]

I have seen that. Some say yes others say no. I called Gigabyte this morning and the tech guy says its is supported on one of the two SATA controllers and is limited to only 2 drives. On the other hand When I look at the Newegg specs it shows no RAID support for the S3 but there is support on the DS3. But then when I read reviews on NewEgg at least three of the S3 owners said that set up RAID 0.

Here is right from Gigabytes S3 product page.

Other Features Supports RAID 0, 1, JBOD (2 ports with RAID function supported by GIGABYTE SATA2)
Supports @BIOS
Supports Download Center
Supports Q-Flash
Supports EasyTune 5
Supports Xpress Install
Supports Xpress Recovery2
Supports Virtual DualBIOS

Guess I'll see when it comes in.

Thanks for the welcome. Long time reader first time poster(I Think)

 

[neteng1958]

Thank You - Great! has been downloaded and ready.

System as ordered

MOBO - GA-965P-S3
CPU - E6400
RAM - 2 Gig G SKILL PC 6400 1.8V - 2.0V
PSU - Corsair 520HX
GPU - eVGA 8800GTS
HDD - 2 WD 250 GIG SATA 7200 drives in RAID 1
Case - Cooler Master centurion 5CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum

I think the only other thing I'm aware of is its necessary to boot the system and let it discover the memory at 1.8V then go into bios and press CTRL-F1 before going into tweaking to raise the RAM voltage up to 1.9V in order to get dual channel 800. (Hope I got that right)

 

[Cheex]

My bad. I stand corrected.