RAID 0 Problem

I have a 6860 w/ the specs listed in my sig and was trying to set up a RAID 0 array on it, after activating RAID in the BIOS and using the Intel Matrix Raid manager to configure the drives, I began installing Vista. However, once I got to the select installation location screen, I selected my RAID 0 array but the installer said that the drive was not suitable for installing Windows Vista and that I needed to provide drivers, I searched for said drivers but couldn't locate them anywhere.

From reading other posts here I understood this to be a driver-less process, if there are drivers required where can I get them, since I really want to set up raid 0 on this machine.

 

From what I remember, you may need to format your raid 0 drive under the Vista install

 

I put the drive in another pc and formatted it and this time around vista started installing on the array, I chose 128KB stripe size since I'll be gaming and also working with/playing a lot of multimedia as well.

 

I think he is referring to formatting it from the Vista install. I'm paying attention to this cause on the weekend it looks like I get to deal with RAID 0 then.

 

That is odd, my 172X FX came with 2 drives but not in raid, I upgraded the OS to Vista Ultimate x64 and started by enabling raid in the bios and then using the storage manager to configure the setting and then installed vista.

Mine never asked me for drivers for the raid array.

 

I think the problem was that the second drive was totally new, after the RAID 0 array didn't work the first time I took the drives out of RAID and used them as two separate drives in my FX and I remember having to initialize the brand new drive.

However, I am now running RAID 0 with 0 problems...

 

You should always load the latest Intel RAID driver at time of setup regardless of whether Windows has a built in version.

Get the current latest from here.