ok previously i reported how when using the onboard jmicron/gigabyte raid your CD/DVD drives were forced into PIO mode.
THIS WILL DAMAGE dvd drives and makes burning impossible.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=108095

I also reported that the board and the pi$$ poor bios development has forced nearly all your major hardware onto 2 irq's 16 and 19.
this again is BAD..

NOW i am here to report more SATA RAID wackiness.

i need more people to run Sandra and Everest or whatever other motherboard/ide detection programs you have.

See if your hardware, when running raid is running in MWDMA 2 that is Multi-Word DMA Mode 2.
this is slower than UDMA5 or 6 these drives are Mode 6 drives and should be running in mode 6 but rarely have i seen a sata or raid controller use anything but UDMA5 this is fine. whatever. mode 5 ok.
but NEVER have i seen a RAID/IDE/SATA controller use MWDMA 2

ive seen a few people around the net saying sandra is reporting it wrong, but i dont think so,, not after the PIO mode issue and the irq issues.

i dont know of another program that can read the dma mode of a raid setup or other drives for that matter..
if you know of one let me know and i'll try it out.