***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[fmsam]

you cant raid those 2 ports

well , this is why I asked the question, as when I first spoke about this in the Asus forums even the big wigs said it was not possible but it seems raid 0 is achievable on the two 6gbs ports, the marvel 9128 controller suppoorts 6gbs raid, there are ppl in the Asus forum who since this first discussion, confirm they have done it.

ctrl+m during post brings the screen up ( as opposed to ctrl+i for the intel page)

linky:- more info about the marvel controller http://www.marvell.com/products/stor...duct_brief.pdf

here is a quote from a guy who started off using a controller card then spotted this

quote:-

OK as an update, I will be adding my Crucial 64GB SSD with another in RAID 0 to the onboard Marvell controller. On the R3E the onboard controller is the 88SE9128, which is the IDENTICAL chipset on the rocketRAID 640, (Fore more info see links)

So, I just realized that I can actually link these 2 controllers together when AHCI is anabled for the onboard 6Gb/s device because of the identical Marvell chipset.

So I can either control the on-board device from the High-Point card bios/software or vice-versa. In essence they become extended port multipliers.... of each-other, or linked Raid Controllers through SAF-TE monitoring, Amazing stuff, yet very tricky, which Is why the SSD is currently installed on the intel SATA 3Gb/s (ICH10) for now until the weekend when I can really sit down and try it out.

unquote :-

well I hope hes right as Ive shelled out a small fortune for 2 6gbs drives

this is the thread from the Asus tek forum where 2 ppl confirm 6gbs raid is a go !

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[turtletrax]

well , this is why I asked the question.
apparently you can, the marvel 9128 controller suppoorts 6gbs raid, there are ppl in the asus forum who confirm they have done it.
ctrl+m during post brings the screen up ( as opposed to ctrl+i for the intel page)

linky more info about the marvel controller http://www.marvell.com/products/stor...duct_brief.pdf

here is a quote from a guy who started off using a controller card then spotted this

quote:-

OK as an update, I will be adding my Crucial 64GB SSD with another in RAID 0 to the onboard Marvell controller. On the R3E the onboard controller is the 88SE9128, which is the IDENTICAL chipset on the rocketRAID 640, (Fore more info see links)

So, I just realized that I can actually link these 2 controllers together when AHCI is anabled for the onboard 6Gb/s device because of the identical Marvell chipset.

So I can either control the on-board device from the High-Point card bios/software or vice-versa. In essence they become extended port multipliers.... of each-other, or linked Raid Controllers through SAF-TE monitoring, Amazing stuff, yet very tricky, which Is why the SSD is currently installed on the intel SATA 3Gb/s (ICH10) for now until the weekend when I can really sit down and try it out.

unquote :-

well I hope hes right as Ive shelled out a small fortune for 2 6gbs drives

this is the thread from the Asus tek forum where 2 ppl confirm 6gbs raid is a go !

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

While I only have one Crucial C300 I thought I would go into the controller BIOS and fudge around. Whilst in the BIOS is was asking me to select more than one drive. Sounds like RAID to me.

I plan on getting one more C300 256GB and would love to mess around with RAID ) but will most likely use them independantly for transcoding, but still interested in this.