Gday,

Have a question to anyone who is experienced with Raid 1 software (probably in particular the SiL 3114 chipset).

Basically I have a ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe board which I have had a heap of issues with. Firstly my problem is at the moment, I have a raid 1 setup on the silicon image 3114 sata ports, which works fine (when the sil bios recognises both drives). However after a painstaking realisation, I have found to discover that if I unplug one of the drives, instead of it telling me that one of the drives has failed, it doesn't throw up an error message. However when I put the drive back in (as what would happen if one drive died and I had to replace it), it will say that the raid drive is invalid, and I cannot rebuild the raid, I simply have to delete it, start again and format.

This seems a little crazy since raid 1 is only there for safety, yet on this board it seems more volitile then raid 0. IIRC the 3112 chipsets didn't have this problem.

My question is does anyone know why this would be happening (is it normal to the chipset/board), if so, would buying a DFI/MSI board be the best solution (ie: do they NOT have the same problem). I wouldn't run raid if I had the choice, but unfortunately I have 6 sata drives, so 2 have to go on the raid controller (which the 3114 wont allow for normal ide mode for some reason). Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, sorry for the lack of coherence :).

so you can't setup the drives as JBOD or 2 single stripes?

nah when the board came out, the 3114 could apparently be setup to be used with just normal drives, but everything else was f***ed, a few weeks later they released a bios update which fixed some issues, but also disabled the ability to use the 3114 without raid :S.

hate to bag asus, but this board is even buggier then the old abit kt7-raid

hate to bag asus, but this board is even buggier then the old abit kt7-raid

that got a chuckle.

the A8N is the first board that I've seen that would make we consider going to Amd.


you could always go back to the old bios rev... you don't run a dual-core by any chance?

nah dont run a dual core, however the reason i upgraded the bios in the first place is because the board was originally so dodgy. in fact with the bios it came with, if you changed an option in bios more then once, it would start freezing randomly and not save the changes.

this board is even buggier then the old abit kt7-raid

Blasphemy! Mine ran rock solid and blazing fast for at least four years
:-(

last edited by evinco at 18:36:59 22/Feb/06

We had a new A*N Sli Premium blow up at work and a drive in raid 5 died in another. But then again we have another 5 that work fine.

yeah ive been hearing the premiums are good, not sure whether its worth forking out the money to get a new board :S. Yeh the current one is still under warranty but I cant get away with not having a PC for a month at this stage :(