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Lloyd
04-01-2008, 10:26 AM
Hiya Guys,
anyone know what the largest array you can make on the below mobo?
coz ICH9R says at 3x 750GB the array isn't bootable? I knock it back to 2x 750GBs and it's fine
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help
zanzabar
04-01-2008, 01:50 PM
i think that its 24TB so u cant get close to it now
Lloyd
04-01-2008, 04:24 PM
Maybe i should try to install the lastest driver (F6 style) while installing vista? I'll post back
swiftex
04-06-2008, 10:07 AM
Hiya Guys,
anyone know what the largest array you can make on the below mobo?
coz ICH9R says at 3x 750GB the array isn't bootable? I knock it back to 2x 750GBs and it's fine
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help

when setting drives the ntfs default is 512k - change to 1024k and it should work
Lloyd
04-08-2008, 05:05 AM
when setting drives the ntfs default is 512k - change to 1024k and it should work

How can i do that if i can't install windows? How would u do it? Actually i think i can use Partition Magic boot disks? though i'm not sure
Thanks for your help
goramus
04-08-2008, 07:26 AM
i could have sworn windows has a 2TB limit per volume and you would hit that before you hit a controller limitation.
Lloyd
04-08-2008, 10:40 AM
well when i create the array with 3x 750GB it just says not bootable - and that's in the ich9r rom - before i get to install vista, i've never had an issue like this. I'm thinking of buy a seperate card and trying that.
Lloyd
04-08-2008, 02:22 PM
Well i got to the bottom of that - u can't make a bootable array/volume of 2TB and over.
But why when i make an array of just 2x 750GB does the array fail after a restart? Any ideas?
Levish
04-09-2008, 06:38 AM
AHCI drivers loaded?
Lloyd
04-09-2008, 09:48 AM
i shouldn't need to load any drivers in vista - i didn't with my 3x 320GB drives. But for some reason with 2x 750GB drives i can create an array install vista and then when i shutdown and restart it tells me the array has failed in the ICH9R post info and won't load vista
NeoGeo333
04-10-2008, 10:39 PM
windows has a limitation and would not allow booting larger drive of 2tb. i think linux can but im not sure. and to work with larger than 2tb volumes you need xp64 or vista to be able to recognize it.
Lloyd
04-14-2008, 02:58 PM
No problem, i found out that u cant make a bootable volume of 2TB on vista, but it turns out that a BIOS update on the Maximus Extreme below sig (1001 to 1004) killed the RAID controller on the southbridge, hence the 2x 750GBs failing after a shuutdown.
So i have the 2x 750GB Samsungs on my FX-62/Asus Crosshair nForce 590 SB without any issue, so if i'm gonna have to rebuild it i might water cool the sb/nb and mosfets as eddy has a sb block now