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by raul666
Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:53 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

Re: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

2- If the second disk shows up on boot then go to "Disk Management" and see if the disk shows up there. If the partition table is corrupt, or Linux was installed, or the disk is not formatted it will not show up under "My Computer". If it doesn't show up under "Disk Managem...
by raul666
Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:27 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

Re: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

haha i dont know i guess since i installed all the other drivers and thats the only one thats missing :-k also on windows under my computer only one of my two hard drives is displayed, i dont know if that has to do with the drivers though, if i do install matrix will i have an annoying message like ...
by raul666
Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:57 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

Re: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

i tried to install matrix controller upon windows install but the floppy reported an error reading file iastor.sys or something like that, i dont mind installing windows again but i think that error would occur again when i try to install matrix, any ideas whats that about?
by raul666
Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:52 am
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

Re: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

thanks a lot i was starting to give up on my post i just disabled secondary drive i just read about AHCI ON Wikipedia and i dont really need hot-plugging and i dont think the NCQ can offer that much of a performance improvement for my needs so if im staying with IDE should i install matrix anyways? ...
by raul666
Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:05 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

Re: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

but is there any advantage/disadvantage to installing the marvell/matrix RAID controllers without having a RAID array?
by raul666
Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: Intel Motherboard Forum
Topic: D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!
Replies: 12
Views: 8408

D975XBX2 SATA IDE Marvell Matrix Help!

Hi! i could really use some help My System: D975XBX2 (BIOS updated yesterday) Core 2 Duo E6420 two 320gb Barracuda SATA Hard Drives (connected to the black SATA connectors) the problem is: i dont want to put my drives in any RAID array, i just installed windows xp without the matrix/marvell drivers,...