MSI P45 NEO3-FR JMB363 controller P-ATA RAID

[bever66]

Hi,

I own a MSI P45 NEO3-FR mainboard that has a Jmicron JMB363 PATA/SATA controller. It appears that from option rom version 1.05 the P-ATA RAID function is on/off switchable through the main bios. The release note from Jmicron 363 only mentions "P-ATA can be disabled through bit 4c" whateven the means exactly. Unfortunately the P45 NEO3 bios has no options to switch P-ATA raid on again, but I would like to use it since I have some older P-ATA hdd that I want to use in RAID1. I contacted MSI and Jmicron with no satisfying result until now. Using the old option rom bios and corresponding driver is no option, because it results in BSOD's with the current Windows versions. Is there somebody out here who is able to modify the mainboards bios in such a way that the P-ATA raid option can be switched on again? Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Willem

[Dansolo]

With our resources, I doubt it...

A single newer SATA drive will beat whatever old IDE drives in RAID-0. By a lot.

[bever66]

With our resources, I doubt it...

A single newer SATA drive will beat whatever old IDE drives in RAID-0. By a lot.

If it makes a difference, I meant RAID1 (mirrorring).

[Dansolo]

How about software RAID? RAID-0 and RAID-1 do not take much computational power at all. (Besides, it's not like that JMicron chip has a RAID coprocessor on it, anyway)

There are definitely people capable of doing what you want but unfortunately I do not do actual BIOS programming, and I don't trust the applications that we have for controlling BIOS options (and even still, the option might not be in your BIOS at all)