GA-EP35-DS3R raid

[mark204]

Hi,

Has anyone set up a raid array as a logical drive on this motherboard?

 

[Mondoman]

I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
Do you have something specific in mind?

 

[bilbat]

GB GA-X48-DS5 (same family...) w/f8a BIOS - Q9550 stepE0 @ 3.825Ghz:
Arctic Cooling Freezer7Pro w/92mm PWM 'daisy-chained' to CoolIt Systems RamFan w/EverFlow F126025BU 60mm PWM;
Sunon KDE1204PFV2 40mm/NorthBridge; EverCool EC3010M12CA 30mm/SouthBridge;
8Gb (4x2) 1066 G.Skill F2-8500CL5D @ 1080 (DDR2-8640) 5-5-5-15 on 2.4(6:5)mult/1333strap...
CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000 w/Silverstone SST-CMD01 ESA 5ch fan controller/4ch temp sensor:
3 Arctic AC12L exhaust (top x 2 + rear); 2 Scythe SF12D (HDD cage top + rear); Scythe SF12E bottom intake...
Koutech IO-FPM220 3.5" Floppy & Card Reader; 2 IDE DVD's;
4 150Gb WD Velociraptors in two RAID0 pair-OSs & swaps; 2 1Tb WD RE3s in RAID1-data; 1 Sg 1.5Tb backups...
Multiboot via BootIt NextGeneration:
VistaUltimateX86/VistaUltimateX64/Win7βX86/Win7βX64(courtesy of TechNet)

Yup...

 

[mark204]

I wanted to know if setting up a raid 5 array for storage affects the way a disk is rebuilt after failure - the manual provides no information on recovery

 

[bilbat]

I can't tell you from direct experience, as my only 're-buildable' array is a RAID1, but I'd assume it is the same - if the Intel Matrix Manager notices an array problem, it rebuilds 'on-the-fly' in the background without interrupting your work; mine is a systems engineering workstation with four OS's, two of 'em betas, and lots of flakey industrial logic design software, so I have more than my share of ugly crashes - (knock on formica) I've never had to resort to a backup! It does take a couple hours to completely rebuild a terabyte of RAID, though...

 

[Candyman2007]

i have the GA-EP35C-DS3R and it just gave me a message that my array has been degraded it looks like i lost drive 3. i can not find the procedure for replacing and rebuilding the drive. does any one have some info on this?

Thank You,
Michael

 

[bilbat]

Do you have the RAID manager s'ware installed?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101