- Nov 23, 2013
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Just picked up this board, Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H rev.3, building server out of desktop class hardware. Using A10-6800K processor, Corsair 1866mhz memory.
Problem: Cannot use RAID with WD2500 (WD Caviar SE [from 2004]). I have 4 I wish to use.
It doesn't matter if I have them assigned to an active array or not, as long as they are operating under the RAID bios, I have issues. Using them as SATA IDE, they are fine! Every time the RAID driver loads, the discs start turning off, and on, and off, and on, and so on, never being detected by the OS. I can see them in the RAID bios just fine, I can even create an array and initialize them. However, when trying to install Windows 7, or 8, or 8.1, or Server 2012 (my target OS), it just starts power cycling the drives as soon as I load the driver. I successfully installed Server 2012 on a single 80GB WD Velociraptor drive, with none of the WD2500's connected, operating under the RAID bios, with no issues. After that, I tried creating the array of WD2500's, but as soon as the OS attempts to load the driver during the boot process, the drives start power cycling again, and the OS never proceeds to load.
I've updated my bios to F2 (latest at this time). No help.
Why are just these drives power cycling when trying to load the RAID driver? They work fine as single drives not running under the RAID bios. They worked fine in a RAID0 array in my last server (Tyan board, Sil Img controller)...
*Edit: Ran WDTLER, enabled TLER on one of the WD2500s. Had no effect.
Connected 2 Rosewill RC-216 RAID controllers to same mobo/system. They run J-Micron controllers. Created 2 separate RAID1 arrays with WD2500s. They work fine, and don't exhibit the power cycling. Seems issue is with AMD RAID chipset | bios | driver. Any work arounds? Any Ideas?
Help?!
Problem: Cannot use RAID with WD2500 (WD Caviar SE [from 2004]). I have 4 I wish to use.
It doesn't matter if I have them assigned to an active array or not, as long as they are operating under the RAID bios, I have issues. Using them as SATA IDE, they are fine! Every time the RAID driver loads, the discs start turning off, and on, and off, and on, and so on, never being detected by the OS. I can see them in the RAID bios just fine, I can even create an array and initialize them. However, when trying to install Windows 7, or 8, or 8.1, or Server 2012 (my target OS), it just starts power cycling the drives as soon as I load the driver. I successfully installed Server 2012 on a single 80GB WD Velociraptor drive, with none of the WD2500's connected, operating under the RAID bios, with no issues. After that, I tried creating the array of WD2500's, but as soon as the OS attempts to load the driver during the boot process, the drives start power cycling again, and the OS never proceeds to load.
I've updated my bios to F2 (latest at this time). No help.
Why are just these drives power cycling when trying to load the RAID driver? They work fine as single drives not running under the RAID bios. They worked fine in a RAID0 array in my last server (Tyan board, Sil Img controller)...
*Edit: Ran WDTLER, enabled TLER on one of the WD2500s. Had no effect.
Connected 2 Rosewill RC-216 RAID controllers to same mobo/system. They run J-Micron controllers. Created 2 separate RAID1 arrays with WD2500s. They work fine, and don't exhibit the power cycling. Seems issue is with AMD RAID chipset | bios | driver. Any work arounds? Any Ideas?
Help?!
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