Sil 3114 BIOS hang

Naeemk

Hi,

MB: GA-K8N Ultra-9
also running a Maxtor ATA 133 expansion card on a PCI slot

current HDD setup:
1* 80gb on IDE 0
1* 250 + 1*200 on Maxtor card
3* 250 on Sil3114 < problem

I'm trying to setup a RAID 5 array (i already know of the performance issue) on this using 3 Maxtor 250GB HDDs (model: 7v250F0, 3.0gb/s)

3 main questions

1. Will the HDDs work fine on the Sil3114 controller as this only supports 150 gb/s. All the drives are detected by the chip.

2. Whenever i setup a Raid array (tried RAID1,0,5 ) on the controller the BIOS hangs after reporting the array.

Goes through POST > Maxtor > Sil3114 > HANG!!!

If i delete the array it boots up normally and i can go to the winxp installation.

3. When running the WinXP installation i hit F6 to install the raid chip, insert floppy and select the "sil3114 raid5 for winxp" driver and it fails to load. is there a specific driver i should be using?

Thanks in advance

Naeemk

After some tinkering the problem was the Maxtor ATA133 card, it seems that you can't have it load it's BIOS at the same time as the Sil3114 Raid is loading its BIOS for RAID operations.