ASUS M3N78-PRO motherboard.

[Shmalls]

I have the ASUS M3N78-PRO motherboard and I am trying to setup a RAID 1 array. I had it working fine with my old MSI board. When I rebuilt my computer, I backed up all the info on the array, assuming I would have to recreate it.

I have 2 identical WD 500Gig SATA drives. I have 6 SATA ports on the mother board, the drive the OS is on is a single drive plugged into port one, the 2 RAID disks are plugged into ports 5 & 6, which according to the manual are dedicated to RAID operation. In the BIOS, if I set SATA operation to RAID, I can access the RAID controller and set up the array exactly like I have done in the past, however the system will not boot. If i leave SATA operation in IDE mode, it boots into windows (Vista - 32bit ultimate), but will not recognize the disks at all (not even in disk manager or in the bios).

I cannot think of anything else to try, but as I am not very experienced with RAID arrays I figured I would let this loose in the ATOT crowd and see what i get!

 

[Shmalls]

Good morning bump, I take it no one has any ideas. hmmm, I guess that makes me feel better, but it doesn't fix the problem

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Check the 'boot' section and set the boot disk to the single disk or RAID... i may be wrong though on that

 

[Shmalls]

I have done that.

If I have the 2 raid disks in sata ports 5 & 6, then the bios dosnt even recognize them.

 

[Shmalls]

Well as it turns out it is impossible to install a RAID array and also have a single disk present on this MOBO. By turning SATA operational mode to RAID you turn ALL SATA ports to RAID, and because you cant have a 1 disk RAID (duh!) it wont allow operation.

Solution: Well I'm not going to go and buy another board, so my friend sold me a basic software based Adaptec SATA card which allowed me to easily set up my RAID 1. Man things are easy when you pay attention to what buy.

THE END

~Dave