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    "PCI SCSI" in bios for P-7805u

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by shinji257, Feb 20, 2009.

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    Does anyone know what the PCI SCSI entry is for in the boot order screen of the bios? I was going through it and found it kinda odd. Is it for the eSATA or the ExpressCard slots?
     
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    PCI SCSI is the raid device once you have the raid setup. The default volume name for raid 0 is Volume0. If you choose to keep the default name, it will show up as PCI SCSI : Intel Volume0. You would need to move this device as your first boot device after raid setup.
     
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    Ah... ok. I didn't know that. I will keep that in mind for later. Just curious but when I do setup my mirror array will it be able to do it without formatting the drive or is it going to have to be done anyways? I don't want to make a backup image for later restoral if I don't have to. On that note is there any gotchas with doing raid on my laptop? My system already has the Intel Matrix Storage Manager installed.
     
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    Setting up raid will destroy all data. You will need to make a backup image. There are no gotchas when setting up raid. It's pretty straight forward. Install the second hard drive then go in to your bios and the raid option should be enabled. Once you enable it, you will get an option to enter the raid configuration page (ctrl + i) during P.O.S.T.
     
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    Yea. I saw that and went through it but it didn't clearly indicate that data would be lost during creation. It only mentioned it during deletion. I went and bought a copy of Acronis True Image 2009 which is able to see the sata controller while it is in AHCI mode. Hopefully it will be able to do so while it is in RAID mode as well. ;)
     
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    Actually it looks like there is a gotcha here. The Raid drivers are not already installed in Vista so when you enable it you get a BSOD. I got that after re-imaging the drive. I'm going to try a couple of things and see if that changes anything but I had to switch back to AHCI mode to get it to boot again.
     
    shinji257, Feb 24, 2009
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