RAID removing HDDs ?

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Im at a loss. I have 2 Raptors on a DFI LANPARTY DK X38-T2RB board and for the life of me I cannot get my RAID 0 to work. I have followed every instruction I can find and for some reason every time I get it set in RAID it will not find my HDDs so it cannot load windows. Anyone else ever have this issue?

Newest BIOS didnt help.
I have tried every JMicron driver listed off of the floppy and none help nor do any match the JMicron JMB368 listed on DFIs site for this board.
I have :
JMicron JMB360
JMicron JMB361
JMicron JMB363
JMicron JMB366
on my factory floppy to select from.
Both drives work perfectly out of RAID. They are identical I have had them in RAID on my DFI DK P35 board no more than a week ago.

This is getting irritating. I know its something simple Im missing or messing up ... it always is. :shadedshu

 

[Homeless]

Is this when you're trying to install windows?

 

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Yes, Well when I set to RAID in BIOS and save I can go right back in BIOS and all that is showing is my CD Rom. But yes I caught it when Windows first started to try to load it comes up with some error it couldnt find a hard drive.

I can set BIOS right back to IDE, save, and both drives show right up I even went ahead and loaded windows like that just to see what would happen. It found the drives just fine like that. I did the steps one by one strait out of the manual (after I couldnt get it to work by memory) same results.

 

[IggSter]

Most motherboards have 2 distinct raid controllers, one built into the chipset which controls your normal sata ports/audio/usb etc and a 3rd party raid chipset which usually has a separate sata/esata ports.

Im not sure if your motherboard has dual raid but i had a very similar problem with my nforce based asus board.

On the motherboard are 6 sata ports which are part of the nforce chipset
There is also 1 sata port which is a jmicron chip set.

The 6 normal sata ports can be configured in bios to be in sata mode or raid mode - however, if you enable raid you will need to install the chipset drivers again (nforce in my case) as when the chipset drivers were originally installed the raid option was off in the bios and the driver install ignores it completely.

Maybe you have the same issue.

 

[IggSter]

Edit: Ive just confirmed that your motherboard has 2 raid controllers:

Intel ICH9R southbridge includes Intel matrix raid support
Jmicron chipset for IDE support.

So for sata raid you need the Intel Matrix driver not the Jmicron one.

EDIT: Here is the link to the driver http://img.lanparty.tw/Upload/Driver/CM/Intel_Matrix.zip

EDIT2: To configure the Intel Raid in BIOS:

Configure Serial ATA in the Award BIOS
1. Power-on the system then press <Del> to enter the main menu
of the Award BIOS.
2. Select the Integrated Peripherals submenu - OnChip IDE Device
section of the BIOS.
3. Configure Serial ATA in the appropriate fields.
4. Press <Esc> to return to the main menu of the BIOS setup
utility. Select “Save & Exit Setup” then press <Enter>.
5. Type <Y> and press <Enter>.
6. Reboot the system.

Configure RAID in the RAID BIOS
When the system powers-up and all drives have been detected, the
Intel RAID BIOS status message screen will appear. Press the
<Ctrl> and <I> keys simultaneously to enter the utility. The utility
allows you to build a RAID system on Serial ATA drives.

 

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Thanks I will go through it slowly step by step.

 

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