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buckyswider

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July 20th, 2012 10:00

E6400 XFR- Intel RAID setup??

Hi all, I bought a CD/DVD drive SATA adapter to add a second hard drive to my E6400 XFR.  My intent is to use the Matrix Storage Manager to mirror the system drive.  However, when I bring up the Matrix manager, there is no option to create the mirror set.  I can see both hard drives, but there's no option to create the RAID set.

 I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest and greatest, and there's no option that I can find to set to RAID mode.  I currently have it set to AHCPI mode.  Anybody know if the chipsed in the E6400 will support this??

 

Thanks. 

osprey4

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July 20th, 2012 16:00

Hi Buckyswider,

Do you see the Ctrl i menu during boot to configure RAID?

ejn63

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July 20th, 2012 16:00

Since the system doesn't support two drives other than through the bridge, there's no RAID option.

buckyswider

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July 20th, 2012 17:00

Thanks Osprey, thanks ejn.

To tell you the truth, I forgot all about the CTL-I  menus. BUT, you can only set up a volume that way prior to OS installation.  I was looking for the "retroactive" set up, which I had done several times before on other systems.  (FWIW, this one is XP Pro).  

So finally I *did* get it to work with the internal drive and the CD caddy drive.  

What I did was:

1- Upgrade BIOS to latest and greatest (not sure if this was necessary, to be honest)

2- (on windows) replace the Intel Matrix Manager with the latest version, now branded as "Intel Rapdi Store".

It still didn't give me the option to create a volume, until I reversed some of the damage I had done earlier:

3- I set the "SATA Operation" back to the default of "IRRT" (Intel Rapid Restore Technology).

Then when I started up the Rapid Store software, it gave me the option to create a mirrored volume from both SATA drives.  The terminology is kinda funny now- I think it's a "continually updated recovery volume".  I tested by pulling the internal hard drive, and the system booted up just fine from the CD port hard drive!

SO, for about a hundred and forty bucks, I've got two SSD drives, the system boots REALLY fast, and I shouldn't have to worry about that stupid Dell "Free Fall Sensor" stuff any more....

osprey4

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July 21st, 2012 04:00

Good to hear.

blindpet

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June 6th, 2014 16:00

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