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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: sl1me on August 26, 2010, 11:05:01 pm
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Hi, I have a small issue with an ocz vertex 2 ssd.
I have a p35c-ds3r MB, and recently upgraded to Win7 on a single 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. While this generally works fine, I can't get it to work the way I want it to. I can boot off the intel sata ports in ide mode and ahci mode, but not when set for raid. The Intel raid/ahci bios doesn't seem to recognise the ocz as a non-member.
The issue is that i'm trying to setup a pair of 500GB Hdd's in raid0. I'm trying to avoid using the Gigabyte jmicron sata ports, as the throughput is low.. 125MB/s vs 200MB/s+ on the intel sata ports. Perhaps the PCI-E bus is the bottleneck.. not sure.
So I'm trying to get both the SSD and the two hdd's (in raid0) working on the intel sata ports. However as mentioned above, when I enable raid in the BIOS on the intel controller, it won't recognise the SSD as a non-member in the raid bios setup (after typing ctrl-I), and won't attempt to boot off it.
I'm aware from the OCZ SSD forums that there have been issues with SMART errors on gigabyte MB's when using 1.11 firmware release on the vertex 2 ssd's. There have been beta bios's released for many of the gigabyte MB's on the German Gigabyte forum, but not for p35c-ds3r. Not that this will solve my problem, but it might include a later raid/ahci bios that might solve the issue. I'm running the F12E bios, which contains an early 1.07 intel AHCI bios. Might just be a case of being patient and waiting for ocz to release new firmware, and/or gigabyte to release new bios.
There is a beta bios available for p35-ds3r.. Does anyone know if this is comaptable with p35c-ds3r?
Note that i tryed running the ssd on the gigabyte sata ports, and while it works fine, the seq read is limited to 125MB/s comapared to 200MB/s+ on the Intel sata ports. Perhaps i will have to leave it like this, with ssd on gigabyte sata and two hdd (in raid0) on intel sata, (or vice versa), and re-test both on intel sata when/if a new bios or ocz firmware is released.
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sorry error you have P35C and not P35 !!
Pierre
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Hello sl1me
What revision is your board?
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if i remember you cannot boot with all 6 ports ICH9R ports but only with 0,1,4,5
ports 3 & 4 are only for datas
with my old ASUS P5K Premium that is the same chip and i use :
- ports 0,1,2,3 for 4 * disks in RAID 10
- ports 5 and 6 for others bootable disks
Pierre
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Is SATA Port0-3 Native Mode set to enable in the BIOS?
I can see how the OCZ SSD might not work right when set to RAID but like really OCZ come on! Didn’t you test this before shipping them! I'm sure lots of people would like to RAID them so if you can't even see it in the raid bios then I think OCZ messed up. Have you tried the support over at OCZ.
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Hello sl1me
What revision is your board?
rev 1
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Is SATA Port0-3 Native Mode set to enable in the BIOS?
Yes.. native mode is set to enable.
I've only tryed the ssd on sata port0 to date. I'll try it on other ports and report back.
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OK.. so connecting the SSD up to different sata ports on the ich9r made no difference. However i found a workaround...
I enabled RAID in the BIOS, did the ctrl-I and set up the raid0 array
I then reboot, go back into the bios and set it back to AHCI
I can then boot into Win7, init the volume, format it, and i have a perfectly working 1TB volume comprising two 500GB disks.. even though RAID is disabled in the BIOS!!
Performance is awsome.. 250MB/sec copying from SSD to RAID volume.. i'm happy now
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Nice workaround!
I'll have to remember that one. ;)
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That worked out extremely well in the end as I thought it might be a bit troublesome to start with especially since our recent forays into RAID and SSDs.