I recently purchased a second Seagate Momentus 7200.1 200gb drive in order to set up a RAID 0 with the existing identical drive.
I will give some background and hopefully someone will have an answer for me.
1) Installed second drive in primary bay along with existing drive also in primary bay
2) Enabled RAID in BIOS
3) Pressed CTRL-I when prompted in order to enter RAID config
4) Both drives detected and shown.
5) Selected Create RAID Volume
6) Chose RAID0, 128K Stripe and then Create Volume
7) Upon completion the status was "FAILED".0
8) Had to delete RAID Volume and went back to step 5 numerous times hoping for better results.
I also tried the above by choosing RAID1 (Mirroring) and got same results. Additionally, I swapped the drives around so that the drive in Port 0 was moved to Port 1 and vice versa also with same results.
Be advised that steps 1-6 above are in accordance with pages 7-3 thru 7-6 of the user manual provided.
It wasn't until I moved one of the drives from the primary bay to the secondary bay (under battery) that I was able to succesfully create the RAID 0 volume and install OS without issue.
My question is this..... Is it normal to only be able to create a RAID 0 or 1 with the drives in separate bays in order to keep them on different channels or could this possibly be a hardware problem with RAID controller. I doubt that this is normal behavior, however If this is normal would I still be able to add a second drive in the primary bay (total of 3 drives) to the RAID 0 or perhaps use it in a RAID 5 for parity.
ATTN Moderator: Please don't tell me to call Tech Support. I've spoken to XoticPC Tech Support who then forwarded me on to Sager Tech Support and neither could provide an answer. By the way, I'm waiting almost 24 hours for a call-back from a "Senior" Technician from Sager who I was assured was calling me back in 15 minutes.
Regards,
Nick
I will give some background and hopefully someone will have an answer for me.
1) Installed second drive in primary bay along with existing drive also in primary bay
2) Enabled RAID in BIOS
3) Pressed CTRL-I when prompted in order to enter RAID config
4) Both drives detected and shown.
5) Selected Create RAID Volume
6) Chose RAID0, 128K Stripe and then Create Volume
7) Upon completion the status was "FAILED".0
8) Had to delete RAID Volume and went back to step 5 numerous times hoping for better results.
I also tried the above by choosing RAID1 (Mirroring) and got same results. Additionally, I swapped the drives around so that the drive in Port 0 was moved to Port 1 and vice versa also with same results.
Be advised that steps 1-6 above are in accordance with pages 7-3 thru 7-6 of the user manual provided.
It wasn't until I moved one of the drives from the primary bay to the secondary bay (under battery) that I was able to succesfully create the RAID 0 volume and install OS without issue.
My question is this..... Is it normal to only be able to create a RAID 0 or 1 with the drives in separate bays in order to keep them on different channels or could this possibly be a hardware problem with RAID controller. I doubt that this is normal behavior, however If this is normal would I still be able to add a second drive in the primary bay (total of 3 drives) to the RAID 0 or perhaps use it in a RAID 5 for parity.
ATTN Moderator: Please don't tell me to call Tech Support. I've spoken to XoticPC Tech Support who then forwarded me on to Sager Tech Support and neither could provide an answer. By the way, I'm waiting almost 24 hours for a call-back from a "Senior" Technician from Sager who I was assured was calling me back in 15 minutes.
Regards,
Nick
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