Hi guys, I am about to setup a RAID0 on my system. I have two drives. Seagate Barracuda 160g SATA 1.5Gb/s Maxtor 160g SATA 3.0Gb/s My question is, is even though the one drive is 1.5Gb/s will I still notice an increase in performance? Thanks.
UPDATE: Ok, so i went ahead and wired up the two drives and I went through the RAID setup utility setting it to RAID 0 and put the drives together. I also changed the settings in the BIOS to configure SATA as RAID. I now changed the boot order to: CD/DVD Hard Drive Removable However, right when the XP Pro boot disc tells you to press a key to boot from cd, I get another error stating: Disc Boot Failure, Insert Bootable Disc. The CD spins up, but windows will not load. It seems to be looking for the file in my floppy drive. My motherboard (Asus A8V-XE) has 4 SATA controllers, 2 of which are red and say Master, and 2 of wich are black and say Slave. I tried connecting the drives to both and I still get the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
When you insert a windows xp install disc and boot into the setup, one of the options you will see is install RAID drivers, you'll need them on a floppy disk.
Thats what I am trying to say. I get the error before it even boots into the setup. That is why I am stuck
PROBLEM SOLVED! Ok this is what I did. Quite simple actually and it solved all of my problems. I simply removed the other 2 SATA CD drives I had hooked up and I hooked up an IDE CD drive and voila. I booted the drivers from the floppy and away the Windows disc went. So I guess there was just some interference between the CD drives. Thanks for your help anyways!
