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Apoptosis wrote:Nope 2TB drives should work fine on it. Your board does not support the latest features like SATA 6Gbps, so you might want to save money and not get the latest drives unless you plan on upgrading your motherboard in the next year or so.

Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.

Happy New Year!

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there any reason that my roughly 2-year-old D975xbx2 mobo can't support 2 TB hard drives? I need to upgrade my system with larger drives and want to consider adding two 2 TB drives.

Thanks much,

Will

Kougar,

Thanks again for the suggestion and clarification. I'll try it on sunday and will report back.

Regards,

Will

Kougar, Thanks fo the suggestion. Just so I understand better, if I move my boot disk to a marvell SATA port but leave my 2 data disks that I want to turn into a RAID1 format, I can do this despite Vista Home Pemium aleady being loaded on the boot drive? What exactly are the steps to be taken after ...

Bump.

Those with successful Matrix RAID setups in Vista Home Premium, would you mind checking your Device Manager settings under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and "Storage controllers" and let me know what's listed there?

Thanks!!

Hi folks. Intel tech support was useless. The person simply told me to reinstall Vista and use the F6 option to install the Matrix drivers. This is in direct contradiction to the following paragraph in section 5.1 of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager 7.0 User's Manual: "If using Microsoft Window...

Thanks guys, but I'd like to avoid a reinstall. Too much of a hastle. It should work because had installed the RAID drivers at my original install (I think so because I tried to RAID using Matrix in the past but had to use the Marvell ports instead). In any event, the Intel documents state explicitl...

Hi, I'm looking for some expertise on this board around a problem I'm having. I have a D975xbx2 mobo and I just added two Samsung 750GB drives with the hope of setting them up in RAID1 format as a redundant data disk (not boot disk). My boot disk is a Raptor 150GB drive and I have a 300GB Maxtor dat...

Hi all, I wonder if anyone else is having this problem, which appears on my system a few weeks ago (out of the blue). For some reason, one of my 4 hard drives powers down after a while. Not sure how long, but definitely not hours. More like 30 minutes or so. My power settings (in Vista32) are set to...

FYI, the problem appears to have been the Marvell sata controller. I moved my 2 Maxtor drives to the Matrix ports and now everything is fine. Unfortunately, I've never been able to RAID my two maxtor drives with the Matrix controller, so now I have 2 western digital raptors and 2 maxtors running wit...

I'm running Vista Home Premium. I have an esata external drive connected to Marvel. Itunes runs without problems. rwolds9, thanks for the info. So, I guess it's not a combination of Marvell and vista and itunes. Maybe I'll disable mcafee and see if that helps. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas because I ...

Yeah, I suspect it's a vista/driver error issue. My pc has the itunes-specific fix for vista already installed (per the Apple support site). Anyway, I'm just trying to poll users here to see if anyone is using iTunes with vista and the marvell sata ports successfully on this mobo. Thanks.

I can't get iTunes to run without crashing under vista and my D975XBX2, whether it's the current version of iTunes or an older one. I'm wondering if it's because I'm using the Marvell sata connectors (I need to use Marvell for a RAID1 setup because I couldn't get my 2 Maxtor drives to run under Matr...

For whatever it's worth, I'm running 2 Maxtor Diamond Max 300GB in Matrix Raid (0, 1) and have been lucky so far. All my drives are connected on the Intel controllers Hmmm, that's strange. I just couldn't my 2 maxtors to work with matrix, only marvell. Oh well, not big deal, I guess. I already have...

Bottom line is that there appears to be problems with Matrix and my Maxtor drives. I'm not alone with this conflict (see: http://www.flyingnerd.com/intel-raid-problem-under-windows-vista/). Anyway, I moved my 2 maxtor drives to the Marvell ports and now things are working. Hurray! Now I have a RAID1...

Hi guys, I'm still not able to get RAID set up for my 2 maxtor drives (see original post above). I have vista32 booting off my Raptor150 and have tried the following, which all lead to boot failures: 1. Change to "RAID" in bios (from "IDE") 2. Establish the 2 x 300gb maxtor drive...

Folks, I have a configuration question that I hope someone here can help with. Right now, I have 4 sata hard drives, a 150gb WD raptor as the boot drive, 2x300gb maxtors I use as separate data drives, and a 74gb WD raptor as a scratch disk. I wanted to know if it's possible to set up the two maxtors...

u might have to change the power setting in vista i had to do it to get my monitor to work, same prob as your experiancing: 1 go to control panel 2 system and maintenance 3 power options 4 switch to high performance 5 change plan settings 6 change computer to sleep to never 7 change turn off displa...

Wonder of someone here can help me with a strange situation on my new build. Whenever my new PC shuts down my Viewsonic monitor through the powersavings option in Vista 32, I can't get the monitor to turn back on. It stays in the powersaving mode (yellow light) versus "on" (green light). I...

The manual doesn't appear very clear whether that's an optional bracket or one that should have been included....