Hello guys,
I'm new here, but I heard this forum is a great place to get help with RAID controllers.
So, initially I had bought an IBM M1015 RAID controller on eBay. It needed the "feature unlock key" in order to add RAID5 abilities - and when I had that hooked up, it continually bluescreened until I removed the feature unlock key and did RAID0 instead.
So I ordered myself one of these:
LSI MegaRAID Internal Low-Power SATA/SAS 9240-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 RAID Controller Card, Single - Newegg.com
The RAID BIOS does show up, and it can see the RAID0 from my previous controller. However, Windows gives me an Error 10 "Device cannot start" message when I try to install the drivers - even if I forcibly install them using the downloaded files from LSI's site, it says those drivers are already installed.
I tried updating the firmware to the newest (December 2012) version - I used an older computer, to ensure that it would work. Still get error 10. I'm trying to install a Linux distribution on that machine to see if it is indeed a hardware problem, or just Windows being dumb - and for both Fedora and CentOS, it hung on the installation so I can't even test it.
Additionally, all 8 of the attached hard drives show constant (100%) activity, even when the computer is idling. Does this sound like a DOA card or other hardware problem to you guys? The motherboard I have is an ASUS M5A97 (see info here. I called LSI and they said that while they haven't tested any ASUS AMD boards, the worst that would happen is that the RAID BIOS won't show up correctly (which it does).
So... what do you guys suggest? Is this a dead card? Or is it a common problem? Should I ditch that model and get a different one? I'm all ears.
I'm new here, but I heard this forum is a great place to get help with RAID controllers.
So, initially I had bought an IBM M1015 RAID controller on eBay. It needed the "feature unlock key" in order to add RAID5 abilities - and when I had that hooked up, it continually bluescreened until I removed the feature unlock key and did RAID0 instead.
So I ordered myself one of these:
LSI MegaRAID Internal Low-Power SATA/SAS 9240-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 RAID Controller Card, Single - Newegg.com
The RAID BIOS does show up, and it can see the RAID0 from my previous controller. However, Windows gives me an Error 10 "Device cannot start" message when I try to install the drivers - even if I forcibly install them using the downloaded files from LSI's site, it says those drivers are already installed.
I tried updating the firmware to the newest (December 2012) version - I used an older computer, to ensure that it would work. Still get error 10. I'm trying to install a Linux distribution on that machine to see if it is indeed a hardware problem, or just Windows being dumb - and for both Fedora and CentOS, it hung on the installation so I can't even test it.
Additionally, all 8 of the attached hard drives show constant (100%) activity, even when the computer is idling. Does this sound like a DOA card or other hardware problem to you guys? The motherboard I have is an ASUS M5A97 (see info here. I called LSI and they said that while they haven't tested any ASUS AMD boards, the worst that would happen is that the RAID BIOS won't show up correctly (which it does).
So... what do you guys suggest? Is this a dead card? Or is it a common problem? Should I ditch that model and get a different one? I'm all ears.