ICH9R drivers ??

Hi guys , I have been trying to install x64 on my computer and no matter what drivers I try to install it says that there are no drives detected . I eventually got it installed without issue on an IDE drive but I want to get my raid array going . What am I doing wrong ? This occurs with any sata drives , singular or attempted raid0 . I tried drivers via floppy and usb. Is there a particular driver I need ? I tried 1017 and it hasnt helped.

By the way its a P5K deluxe - q6600 - 2x7k80 for raid0 and a 250GB WD sata2 .

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Edit - I just did a search and found this thread :

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-insta...-recognize-my-hard-drive-when-installing.html

I did follow all of the steps outlined there and Vista just does not see any of my sata drives.

I hade a hell of a time getting Vista64 to install to RAID. I had a few extra SATA drives installed and need to unplug them to get through setup. Remove any drives (SATA or IDE) except for the ones you plan to configure as your raid set. In my case I have a SATA DVD drive and was able to keep that in.

Make sure you select RAID in your SATA configuration.

Disable IDE controller if you can.

Do CTL-I when prompted during boot and prepare your drives for RAID

Go back into BIOS and make sure that your RAID array shows up in your boot list. To be sure, remove any other devices except for DVD drive from boot list. Obviously you want to boot to your DVD drive first.

Try Vista install. Hopefully something here will help you. I have the RAID drivers on the CD that came with my motherboard. When you get to the drive selection portion of setup, select "load driver" and browse your mobo CD for a folder containing the RAID drivers. Hopefully you have drivers available.

From there you should be on your way. Once you get it to boot, go ahead and add any drives you want, and Vista will be happy with them.

This was my experience. I can't explain it, but I had to do this several times for other reasons and every time I needed to only have the two raid0 drives in to make it through setup.

Good Luck,

Paul

Thanks Paul , it seems my 7k80's have passed away so Im getting a second WD2500KS to make a pair that way. Im going to try this pair of hard drives and see if this helps . What involvement does the Jmicron sata chipset have in this ?

I have no idea if it's the controller, drivers, or what. I just know what worked for me. I know the install should have been easier.

Good luck with your new drive. Hopefully it helps. Post back when you get it set up.

Paul

OO! I know :D

I just figured this out yesterday.

JMicron is just for the eSATA plugs in the back, thats all they do. So don't bother tweaking those. No matter what you do, RAID won't work unless you plug your SATA drives into the back.

To get RAID going for Vista, you need to set up the drives into RAID via the BIOS.

This should be on the first page, under SATA configuration. Change the config to RAID. You can use Intel Robson Technology if you want... but from what I read, it just extends battery life for laptops.

Now, save the changes in the BIOS and restart.

When your system restarts, wait for it to get to the RAID bit. Press control-I when it says so. Then select the disks you want and save changes. Restart the computer

CAUTION: If you have another disk that IS NOT going to be in the RAID Array, disconnect it for now. This is just for good practise.

Now, pop the Vista install DVD into the comptuer, and start the installation process. One of the many many benifits of upgrading to Vista is that the installer comes with RAID drivers included! Woohoo!

Attempt to install the damn thing on the RAID array. If it works, then congrats and post results..

If not, do what I did and spend 3 hours searching for a solution

This is from the Asus website about the P5K...

"The Intel ICH9R chipsets incorporate Six Serial ATA connectors with high performance RAID functions in RAID 0, 1. The JMicron controller provides another two Serial ATA connectors for RAID 0, 1, and JBOD functions. This motherboard is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and data back up protection without the cost of add-on cards."

You can definately have RAID with internal SATA drives. You won't be using the Jmicron controller for this. Don't let the post above confuse you.

Paul

I never said he couldn't. I said that if he wanted to JMicron, you would have to plug it into the back. The setup I stated used the ICH9R.

I actually have the motherboard, and I set it up that way.

@Aussie-revhead: Did you try something like this?

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Forum-

I misunderstood your post. Hope I didn't offend you.

Paul

Hahaha don't sweat about it.

Sorry about the bad mood stuff... just some troubles at home etc. :P

EDIT:

Ah now I get where the confusion came in, sorry

I meant "JMicron is just for the eSATA plugs in the back, thats all they do. So don't bother tweaking those. No matter what you do, RAID with JMicron won't work unless you plug your SATA drives into the back."

Thanks for the replies guys , I thought the jmicron chipset was for the esata ports but what threw me is its also involved in IDe operations . My pair of good drives that came out of my last pc seem to have both died as they cant be seen in bios , even when plugged in alone , singularly or as slave drives, so I suspect this has been my issue all along , I just didnt want to believe they both died together somehow . Then again they are "deathstars"

I installed Vista without issue and without extra drivers on my single 250GB sata2 hdd , but the damn thing wont boot properly after doing updates etc , so hopefully tomorrow my second matching drive will arrive and I will try again to get it going on a raided pair.

As I understand it, you have an Asus P5K motherboard and you want to use a RAID0(striped) disk array, and you want to install Vista 64-bit. I had a machine built on this class of Asus motherboard and I had to return it under warranty for a rebuild on another motherboard. Asus is keeping its mouth shut about a design/manufacturing error regarding its motherboards that use both the JMicron and Intel ICH9R chipsets.
If you check the motherboard physically you will probably see 6 sockets for SATA hard disks to be plugged into and probably no other hard disk ports except two parallel ports for proper IDE devices (floppies, disk drives etc).
If you got SATA disks they all have to plug into that 6-socket array. That array is operating via the ICH9R controller. That controller can only be in one of three modes - IDE (over serial), RAID or AHCI. You say that you want to use a RAID0 array, this means that you must put the ICH9R controller into RAID mode. When this happens, the Intel Matrix Storage Manager ROM BIOS extension is supposed to load during boot, and Ctrl-I gives access to its user interface. In IMSM ROM BIOS Setup you then create one or more RAID volumes of the type you want. Each RAID volume needs at least 2 disks. You cannot access the disks properly unless you first collect them into a RAID volume. So this leads to the problem of operating system installation. You have to put the operating system on a RAID volume unless you install a real parallel IDE disk off one of the parallel controllers try finding such disks today.
Now, you cannot operate both the JMicron chipset and the ICH9R chipset at the same time BECAUSE THE JMICRON ROM BIOS EXTENSION STOPS THE IMSM ROM BIOS EXTENSION FROM LOADING.
The eSATA controller for EXTERNAL SATA disks is part of the JMicron controller.
If you try to load Vista to a RAID volume then you have the following problems. You can start Vista Installer from a Serial ATA DVD reader but by default Vista Installer cannot read from such a serial device, it can only read its own DVD-ROM if booted from a real parallel DVD reader, which means activating the JMicron chipset, et voila. You might solve this problem by finding a Seral IDE driver and using the Installer's driver load feature, try it if you like. If you ever get Vista Installer to read its own DVD-ROM, next problem is that you are going to copy a Vista image from DVD to a RAID volume, if this is done with the default Microsoft IDE driver the write out of the image will be wrong and therefore Vista will not operate properly. Then you must write out the Vista image to the RAID volume by first loading in Vista Installer the ICH9R driver for the Vista 64-bit operating system. This is done by way of a lightweight pre-install driver from Intel. You go to Intel's own website and search on "ICH9R driver" and navigate from that result list to the driver download page and you will see full op sys drivers and lightweight pre-install drivers.
WHAT DID I DO?
I invoked the warranty with the manufacturer of my PC, to rebuild on a new motherboard, a Gigabyte P35-DS3. It has TWO SATA controllers, one is the ICH9R with the 6-port array and the other is simply called the GSATAII controller with two SATA ports. Leave the GSATAII controller in IDE mode and put SATA disks off that and install Vista to one - the parallel IDE ports work at the same time as all the other ports!!!! Set the ICH9R controller to RAID mode and use Ctrl-I to build your RAID volumes. NOTE all the disks for a given RAID volume should be the same make and model for best performance. RAID0 means that any given file gets split up across all the disks for parallel reading or writing of data which is supposed to speed things up. Useful for AVCHD video editing when you have large files.
SO YOU KNOW THAT THE Intel Matrix Storage Manager has 4 parts - the physical controller, the BIOS extension, operating system specific drivers for op system installation and for general usage after installation (the full driver).
AND YOU KNOW ASUS MOTHERBOARDS HAVE A MANUFACTURER DEFECT AND IT SHOULD NOT BE SELLING THEM.