any advantage SATA can provides. When you have a single SATA HDD, configure it as an AHCI drive in the same manner a SATA/RAID HDD must be configured, else the SATA advantage is lost. Don't change the bios setting to raid until you are ready to use the raid....

of a new motherboard with 6 onboard SATA. But generally you should not use the RAID drivers that come with either Silicon Image, Promise FastTrak and JMicron (JMB363). Although these are fine SATA controllers, the RAID drivers adding RAID functionality to these...

ENU Intel(R) RAID Technology Intel RAID Controller: Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID Controller Number of Serial ATA ports: 6 RAID Option ROM Version: 7.5.0.1017 Driver Version: 7.8.0.1012 RAID Plug-In Version: 7.8.0.1013 Language Resource Version...

Windows 2000 Server, and you've pressed F6 to select the RAID driver, and it's reading the options off the disk, select the option: "Intel 82801HR/HH/HO SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH8R)" Once the install has finished you'll be able to install the...

running at stock - see my comments below) Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 2 x 2 gigs of 800mhz Corsair memory 2 x 250gigs SATA drives running in RAID0 of the ICHR9 onboard chip 2 x Sapphire 3870x2 with crossifre cable 1000W Thermaltake Toughpower PSU Antec P182...

much of an issue for me. (But would there be a way to recover it?) Really I wonder if it would be unwise of me to just keep the two drivers and set up a RAID 0 again with them. Is the drive faulty or was this some fluke? FWIW, I have an Intel ICHR9...