IC7 - NO RAID 0 on ICH5-R

[bito]

Hi all....i have been trying to get a pair of Hitachi 7K250's (2 x 120gb SATA) to run in a raid 0 config. from the Intel southbridge.
With all the correct bios settings and the array built properly, the windows instalation starts, i F6 and it reads in the intel sata drivers, continues with install, then after the first reboot gives me a 'disk read error' and requests a ctrl - alt - delete.
These are brand new drives, tested with no errors individually.....i am thinking a bios issue.......any comments/help pls??
Has anyone got a pair of these Hitachi SATA HDD's running on an IC7 - non G??

Thanks for any help

[Jupiler]

Did you use the latest Intel Raid drivers (3.50)?
Which bios are you using?

[bito]

Yep....latest from Intel.....bios 19 on straight ic7.

[mdzcpa]

What BIOS settings did you use to set up the RAID? (i know you said they are right, but i need to know).

Did you set the OnChip RAID as the boot drive?

Does the Intel RAID BIOS see the RAID 0 stripe on boot up?

[bito]

mdzcpa...thanks for taking the time to help.....

my settings.....
On chip serial ata mode - raid
Bootable add in device - on chip sata
drivers loaded using f6 method
The array was built fine using ctl-i and was seen fine.....full format completed ok....starts install, then after 1st reboot....disk read error!!
Very wierd.

[mdzcpa]

Nothing seems wrong off the top of my head. I'll look around some more for you.

[bito]

Working fine now with a pair of new Maxtor 120GB SATA150 drives......same settings......Hitachi's sent back already.

[Trixxy]

you needed the latest Intel RAID Option ROM v.3003 in the bios (not in official bios files yet)

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=40307


of no use to you now, but may satisfy your curiosity as to why it wasn't working. :)

[enzoR]

that is really really really strange. since when did 2 drives work well properly together... but not in raid!!??