Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

[artdrivers]

---UPDATE---The ICH10R/DO is for digital office. http://www.intel.com/assets/PDF/datasheet/319973.pdf
When ICH10R is set up as Raid you cannot use SATA/DVD Drives or SATA/PATA partitioned Hard Drives on it. You can however RAID0/1/5/10 and AHCI on it, You would want to use another SATA controller for your PATA/SATA Drives and SATA/DVD Drives.

By artdrivers at 2009-06-28

[gampamu]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

Actually you can have both RAID and non-RAID disks on the ICHxR's simultaneously. The non-RAID disks will operate in the AHCI mode.

[gampamu]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

Not true. I have been running a 4 disk RAID array along with non-RAID disks on the ICHxR's for years. PATA is not supported by the ICHxR's.

Edit: looks like the op has removed the post I responded to.

[artdrivers]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

I wish it were as easy as that.
Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[gampamu]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

It actually is, speaking from experience.

Edit: Issues addressed in your wiki link, applies only when non-AHCI system disk (one containing the OS) is run in AHCI mode. If that is the problem you're referring to, there are fixes for that. For XP: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831 and for Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976. For all non-OS disks, they work fine in both AHCI and non-AHCI envirnment.

[artdrivers]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

OK! I can SATA/AHCI/IDE and SATA/AHCI/RAID but if I want to RAID and use my SATA/PATA drive and SATA DVD drive, it would be much simpler to put them on another SATA controller, and forget about the AHCI and Vista. This way I also do not have the problems that the AHCI causes when swithching hard drives and different operating systems.
I am going to leave the AHCI alone. It is not for my desktop. http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/ahci.htm
Thats a good article though Thanks

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

[gampamu]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

Artdrivers, good luck to you.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

I have NON RAID SATA Hard (Storage, and or a second RAID) drives and CD Drives connected to my ICH10R, and have in the past on previous chipsets as well with no issues at all.

The additional drives that are not a part of your RAID Array will just show up as NON RAID Members is all as you can see in these images (All connected to ICH10R W/ Dual RAID's setup (3x ST3250410AS) + 1 NON RAID Storage Drive (ST3500320AS) + 1 Asus DVD Drive) >>>





Are you unclear on whether you can or not, or are you trying to say something else? I am not sure here with the deleted comments and such. If you do need some help with your setup let us know, we can help. And if you do, please don't delete your comments, although I can read them others cannot and maybe they could have answered you already.

[artdrivers]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

I don't know how you can make it any clearer :>) It's clear now and thanks for the information.

[mv2devnull]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

Googling does show that not all SATA DVD drives "have behaved" in AHCI mode, although that is more insufficient compatibility than intentional lack of it. Since DVD drives do not make use of AHCI features, they just have to communicate with the AHCI controller.

Btw, there is no "PATA/SATA formatted" HDD that would be different from "AHCI formatted". It is just the language used by OS and controller that is different between IDE and AHCI, not the content of the disk. If the format would differ, then one could not enable/disable AHCI on an existing setup.


@Lsdmeasap: Fancy setup of LUNs.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

So you all good then? Sorry, I thought a few images would be best for anyone who may be confused later on down the road.

@mv2devnull

LUN's? What do you mean?

[artdrivers]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

I never managed to AHCI I RAID and IDE on this one. Because I spent 2 days trying to get the drivers to work on this motherboard and just gave up with the AHCI I don't need it any way. But I do know that others do so I am trying to learn a little of it by googling, and going to forums like here. Thanks for your info it helps.
Communication is the Expressway to Information

[mv2devnull]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

@mv2devnull

LUN's? What do you mean?

Silly me. Logical Units, shouldn't have called them LUNs. The two logical volumes on one physical array of three drives.

[artdrivers]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

What is with the ahci Why do you need it if you are not hot swapping?

[mv2devnull]

Re: Intel ICH10R/DO and RAID How many drives?

Need? Who needs? In that Ned Slider's article was three main advantages.
Counting out hotswap leaves two. Staggered spinup counts with multiple
drives, but then you probably use RAID, so that is not a "plain AHCI" plus.

Which leaves the NCQ. Re-ordering of multiple accesses in order to minimize
head movements. And multiple reads imply multiple processes, or at least
threads. Makes a notable difference on servers, but they don't usually do
"plain AHCI" either.

Thus, most of us use either IDE or RAID. RAID does use AHCI, but that is
irrelevant. Hotswappers are a logical crowd for the plain AHCI.