I have a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. Two WD 640 sata hard drives. I just got the machine running and was trying to pu XP Pro on the machine. When it got to the setting partitions I could not re format the drive C:. Read the setting up the raid in the GIGABYTE manual and went to the bios and changed the setting where it says SATA RAID AHCI Mode to (RAID) and saved my changes. After all this I keep reading and then it has press CTL-I and enter the configuration utility. I keep reading all that trying to understand it and I get to the next chapter and it says Configuring GIGABYTE SATA@ SATA Controller and it shows going to the Onboard SATA/IDE Device. I have Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb hard drives. I feel sure I should keep going the way I am in setting it up to raid in the SATA RAID AHCI Mode to (RAID).
I think I am going in the correct direction and now I should do the Ctl-I and proceed to the Create Volume Menu. I only have 2 hard drives and it says it will automatically assign the array. It talks about the stripe black size being set from 4KB to 128KB. What should I set that to? After all this should it boot and reconize the hard drives or do I need to add some drivers before putting the OS system on?
Thanks for all the help, for a beginner all the people on this aite are very helpful.
Budde
I think I am going in the correct direction and now I should do the Ctl-I and proceed to the Create Volume Menu. I only have 2 hard drives and it says it will automatically assign the array. It talks about the stripe black size being set from 4KB to 128KB. What should I set that to? After all this should it boot and reconize the hard drives or do I need to add some drivers before putting the OS system on?
Thanks for all the help, for a beginner all the people on this aite are very helpful.
Budde