Originally Posted by ncsa
Continuing the RAID saga ... it now confirms that either the DFI implementation of the ICH9R RAID Controller is flawed (BIOS) or has a Design limit or my particular DFI board is faulty (a high possibility) as when using the same Hard Drives and Device Drivers on the Abit IP35-Pro it is possible to have all 6 ports available for RAID configuration.
The DFI appears to have a max of 4 ports when setting the BIOS to RAID - ports 4/5 become disabled...or at least not visible when CTRL-I is selected to configure the RAID Arrays.
If this is a BIOS/Desgin issue on the DFI then it is clearly a fundamental issue which should have been tested within the Factory (RAID 101) and not out in the market by fee paying customers ... even the Sponsered field users could have caught this prior to the product going to market.
Abit IP35-Pro ICH9R Controller - complete with CrossFire in operation
@ncsa.......I just came from the Abit IP35 Pro and I will tell you first hand that the D.F.I board does not like anything associated from that IP35 Pro disk!
My install cd that came with the second D.F.I board is touchy and has a hard time with auto play and its just not right regardless so I did a chipset install from the IP35 Pro disk and after that I could not get my USB keyboard and mouse to engage no matter how many times I rebooted and had to use a PS2 Key/Mouse, so I ended up reinstalling Winblows yet again (sigh) and used the shaky D.F.I P35 Disk installed the chipset drivers that came off of that and not a moments trouble!
Just to let you know the first install I reinstalled 3 different batches of the Intel chipset drivers and still no USB Key/Mouse!
So YES anything driver related from the Abit CD is a Bust and I bet you will fix you're problem if you start fresh unfortunately! "Hopefully"
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