Thanks anyway. I discovered that I needed the RAID drivers for my SATA hardware. I had the SATA link drivers for the correct device but outside of the operating system, it would not recognize the RAID set. I spent at least an hour searching for the correct drivers.

A big Thank You to ASUS tech support and the Silicon Image website for being NO HELP AT ALL! I don’t even remember where I ended up finding the correct drivers, but I did eventually find drivers that worked. I know have windows installed on a RAID 0 set and getting a benchmark score for this drive of 87 MB/s. That kicks ass. I have an identical drive as i am using in the raid set and it gets a score of 28 MB/s (SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2005)

If anyone needs a RAID driver for the Sil 3112 hardware, I can send it to you.

I just bought 2 80GB SATA drives to set up a raid 0 system. I finally got the right drivers for my built in SATA hardware and got window 2000 setup to recognize the raid set. When windows would go to format the raid set, it would stop at 85% every time. I have been reading a little about the 137gb limit (85% of 160 gb = 136gb, coincidence?) and would like to know if there is any way to do a fresh install on my current raid set.

I can get into windows xp using my other drive and it will recognize all 160 gb of the raid set and I can format and use it just fine. Would it work if I set up 2 partitions on the raid set from windows, then install windows on one of them. I should still get about the same performance then right?

if you have and run XP, then why do you need 2000? (or windows at all… for that matter :roll: )

Thanks a lot, that really helps!

I am installing Windows 2000 because runs all the programs that win xp runs but it isn’t so bogged down with wizards and pretty stuff.

Why windows at all? I don’t have the time to learn how to run linux, and I like playing games.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[quote author=“ryandean”]Thanks a lot, that really helps!

I am installing Windows 2000 because runs all the programs that win xp runs but it isn’t so bogged down with wizards and pretty stuff.

Why windows at all? I don’t have the time to learn how to run linux, and I like playing games.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I meant no offense, just curious…  :oops:

(truthfully, i know close to nothing on the subject, i am just trying to keep this forum active 8) )

Hehe…137gb….you need to make two partitions past 120gb from what i’ve found out with XP cause winblows sucks 👏

OK since you didn’t even read the last post I’ll spell it out again. I did get it to work, I now have windows installed on a raid 0 set on one 160 GB Partition.