New ASUS P5K Raid Setup, help needed please

OK, I made a slight bit of progress but still basically stuck

If I have my 2 drives on SATA connectors 1 & 2, I never get the JMicron RAID prompt "CTRL J to enter RAID bios setup". (But I can see both drives are detected OK in the normal Bios screens)

However if I move my second hard drive to the SATA_E2 connector then during post I get the CTRL J prompt, and I can enter the Jmicron RAID Bios setup OK.

Now I am stuck though as the JMicron screen is telling me it can only see 1 Hard Disk, which is not enough to create a raid array.

I must be doing something obviously wrong here ?

I am puzzled where to go next with this, any ideas please ?


Regards

Hi SomeJoe

Thanks for your answer

Grrrrrrrrrr, that will teach me to do my homework properly before I buy a motherboard. Looks like I needed to buy the P5k deluxe version of the board to RAID two internal drives.

Plan B
Does this sound sensible as an alternative plan ?
Use SATA1 connector for my Windows non RAID drive, then I would purchase another 320 gig WD drive with an external SATA to eSATA enclosure.

I could then RAID 0 one internal drive with the external drive.

The advantage of this is that it gives me a more secure Windows drive, but the disadvantage is that it is another £50 to £60 and I have the clutter of the external drive.

comments welcomed from anyone

Regards

in the bios, go to SATA Configuration, change SATA Mode to RAID, reboot, after the jmicron screen another will come up saying press CTRL+I for Raid setup, press this and configure raid

Is it possible to get a cable to connect one of the internal drives to the external port (so an SATA to eSATA cable I guess, if such a thing exists). Then just run the cable through the back by removing a pci slot (or using a bracket with a hole in it).

I too have been caught out by this... I spent ages trying to get the damned array to work, then was pretty sure of what has just been confirmed on here. why on earth would anyone want to raid an external drive to an internal drive anyway, seems a bit silly to me, if they are going to put a jmb chip on the board they coudl at least have given it two internal connectors

You can get an e-sata to sata cable to connect the second raid drive internally - works great for me. Here is the link https://www.auspcmarket.com.au/inde [...] embers.php

Cheers

As was told to the original poster back in JUNE, his motherboard is a P5K, not a P5K Deluxe, a P5KR, P5K-E, nor any of the other 10 different P5K variations that have an Intel RAID controller. His board has an ICH9 south bridge, not an ICH9R, and therefore he has NO RAID capability other than the JMicron controller.

He does not, will not, and will never get the Ctrl-I message because his board doesn't support that.

You guys who are posting 5 months after his problem has already been discussed need to READ the thread before you post.

I too am going through the same process too, to install the raid0. You are almost there! I'm going to wind the esata to sata into the computer to have them inboard from there to where the drives are supposed to be.

I was told by asus and the weirdly written instructions in the manual on pg. 5-29 5.4.2, that if u use the esata on the back, and the esata_2 (my description is sata#5) that is on the momboard but near the backside of the case above the pci slots, you can do raid.
I was also told one ide port has raid capability also for the optical. I haven't done it yet but here's luck yo both of us.