Ace

I notice you have an Areca raid card in your sig & wondered if you could help me out.

I am considering getting the same card as you for the reason below.

I have a couple of 80gb Hitachi's that I have run for quite a while RAID 0 with various motherboards but always have the same problem that when I get up to speed & tweaked out & happy with my rig I start getting iasator errors in the event viewer which after 2/3 days of 24/7 running crashes windows to a black screen leaving the fans running like the light is on but no ones home.

A reboot normally fixes things & in the worst case a BIOS reset & reboot get me going again.

I would like to run these & possible one or 2 more drives in RAID 0 again with my IP35 @ 462 x 8 but don't want to get the isator errors & crashes again that normally happen over about 400-425 x 8 ish with the onboard RAID controller.

Do you run your rig @ 450 x 8 24/7 with your Areca RAID setup & have you found any iasator errors in your log.

I run XP Pro BTW.

Regards

Craig.