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It seems it is possible that the Marvell RAID via it's standard SATA connections is not available on this mother board. The download page for the DX58SO2 will have all the drivers, utilities, BIOS, etc, that it is intended to be used with it, which will give you a clue as to what it can and cannot do. Don't wait for tech support to reply in the forum, that's not how they do things. Unless someone here knows the answer (I don't), you should directly contact Intel technical support to answer your question. It is not described in the manual that I can see, as you know. The question now is, can you even do what you are attempting on the DX58SO2. My ASUS mother board does have the Marvell RAID on the SATA interface connections.
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I don't see in the DX58SO2 manual how to configure RAID on the Marvell controller via it's 6Gb/s SATA interface, it is not mentioned at all. I noticed in the DX58SO2 manual, that a RAID array using external HDDs via the Marvell eSATA interface is described, and the BIOS configuration for the drives is accessed by pressing F2 during POST, and the MRU is accessed by entering M during POST, just as with my ASUS mother board. The Marvell Raid Utility (MRU) comes on the mother boards driver disk, and is accessed by pressing M during POST. I have an ASUS mother board that uses the Marvell 9128 chip, and the BIOS has a section for the initial configuration of drives connected to the Marvell SATA ports. I've checked out your DX58SO2 mother board's Technical Specification, and it does use what is usually simply called the Marvell 9128 chip, with support for SATA 6Gb/s on two SATA ports. The Marvell SATA controller cannot be used for JBOD.
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Lastly, if I install Windows on one of the WD drives without creating a RAID array, the other drive cannot be initialized. The CPU is the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme 3.33GHz BX80613I7980X running at default speed.Īll of the DX58SO2's settings are default. I've tried booting to a freshly installed Windows 7 hard drive connected the Intel SATA port 1 (DVD drive on 0), then creating the RAID 0 array in Windows, rebooting, then attempting to run the install routine again, still fails. The hard drive led flashes once per second continuously for 10 minutes or so, then Windows displays an install failure message (sorry, don't have the displayed message in front of me but can supply it later today.) Windows install proceeds to copy files, unpack them, then fails.
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Using two identical Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6 Gb/s I created one RAID 0 array using the Marvell bios configuration utility.īooting to a Windows 7 Ultimate installation DVD, I run the install utility (custom mode), load the 64bit mv91cons driver (have also tried loading the mv91xx driver, then both drivers in sequence, also tried install without either) and continue the install routine. I'm attempting to configure a DX58SO2 to boot to a RAID 0 array using the Marvell 6Gb SATA ports.