So I’ve got a couple of 3TB drives that I want to RAID-1, and I’ve read through the various guides and success lists. I guess depending on when the post was written, the recommendations vary a bit.
Given that we’re at v13, which is far past the point of being recommended for the 5-series, do you, Fernando, or anyone else with experience in this, have recommended ROM/driver combos for a 5-series? And how is it in terms of reliability/read/write speed?
many of the successful builds were done with 12.7.0.1936, but I saw recommendations for the 11 series. Is it usually best to go with the highest developed version in a certain series?
I’m about to bite the bullet on a bios mod for the 3TB drives, and it’s a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P running F10. obviously old enough not to have an efi bios. I’ll likely try to fit in JMB36x v1.0.7.28 and realtek v2.59 at the same time.
@ crazyj:
Wecome at Win-RAID Forum!
Yes, for your P55 RAID system I would recommend either the Intel RST driver/ROM combo v11.2.0.1006/11.2.0.1527 or the RST(e) driver/ROM combo v12.8.11.1000/v12.7.0.1936.
At least you have to try it out yourself. There is no "best" driver/ROM combination for all P55 chipset systems.
Regards
Fernando
Well, so far so good.
I ended up using Intel RST(e) ROM 11.6.0.1702 / Driver 11.7.4.1001. It recognized the pair of 3TB drives, in the config utility and in windows, though I did have a minor annoyance. I was using 12.9 and installing 11.7 didn’t replace it, it made 2 instances. Got rid of them both and reinstalled. Now seems ok.
I replaced the JMB ROM as well. It’s now v1.0.7.28. I haven’t played with that yet, as the two disks I have there are not RAID yet.
I updated the realtek ROM to 2.59 also, and wasn’t going well, as I forgot your advice to modify it with a hex editor to the specific device id last two digits. I was getting two of them in CBROM, until I changed the hex, and then it worked fine. It changed the order of the ROMs, but doesn’t seem to have had any ill effect. I did them in order so that they just shifted down. I used CBROM 155 as a precaution.
File should be attached if anyone with this board is in the same boat.
BTW - seeing as no one else from any of the other bios modding forums took much notice of my posts, I gotta say your response was very much appreciated. Also, the guides and links on the forum are top notch. Definitely saved me some grief.
p55ud4p_rste-11.7.4.1001_jmb-1.0.7.28_rltk-2.59.f10.zip (822 KB)