There are builds of IMR with and without RAID-5 support. Some only have 0/1 and possibly 10 but no 5. I would extract the 8.7 that's there and compare it to the two we have (the ICH10 one and the ICH9 one I found) and if it's smaller then those, replace it with the ICH9 one I found... or possibly try a later 8 series release like 8.9[.1]. 8.7 ICH9 has a higher chance of working, IMO. And that's if it's even different from what's there.
(11-30-2010, 05:07 AM)1234s282 Wrote: [ -> ]OK well that mod had v8.5.0.1030
So i could take the latest 1.3.0 mod and use the RAID Rom that i extracted from the modded v1.0.3 (Intel v8.5.0.1030) but id honestly give the proper 1.3.0 a go first because no doubt it has bug fixes in it.
And seeing as it uses 8.7 theres no reason why it shouldnt support RAID. However i have downgraded the RAID in the original from 8.7 to 8.5 extracted from the mod if you want to try that too (At your own risk)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Dell%20Vo...34s282.zip
Regards
Admin
Try at your own risk!
Will give it a shot this morning. If you want to try a newer version I would be up for that. The 1.3.0 BIOS and most Dell Desktop BIOS rip out the options for RAID 5 so I only had RAID 0/1 with stock 1.3.0
-Intel RAID for SATA 8.9.1.1002 w/ RAID-5
-Intel Eaglelake VGA BIOS 1859 (From 1760 or something; NOT the latest; I couldn't find 2042 for download, got this from an MSI G41 board)
-Realtek PXE 2.35 (from 2.26)
EDIT: I had originally put 8.7.0 ICH9 in this but I updated it to 8.9.1 for ICH10 because it apparently does have ICH10. I originally assumed it was ICH9. If you want to try 9.6 or 10.0 then let me know.
I would test this with your RAID-5 drives disconnected just in case. I recently had Windows mess up my RAID drives when I booted the system in IDE mode after updating the BIOS and forgetting to enable RAID mode first. Had to buy RStudio to recover my data :/
Note: There is an even newer version further down this page
(11-30-2010, 01:28 PM)Dansolo Wrote: [ -> ]-Intel RAID for SATA 8.9.1.1002 w/ RAID-5
-Intel Eaglelake VGA BIOS 1859 (From 1760 or something; NOT the latest; I couldn't find 2042 for download, got this from an MSI G41 board)
-Realtek PXE 2.35 (from 2.26)
EDIT: I had originally put 8.7.0 ICH9 in this but I updated it to 8.9.1 for ICH10 because it apparently does have ICH10. I originally assumed it was ICH9. If you want to try 9.6 or 10.0 then let me know.
I would test this with your RAID-5 drives disconnected just in case. I recently had Windows mess up my RAID drives when I booted the system in IDE mode after updating the BIOS and forgetting to enable RAID mode first. Had to buy RStudio to recover my data :/
Worked like a charm, thank you!
My Vostro 420 has an American Megatrends bios v02.61...will this work for me also? The Dell splash screen shows 1.3.0 as I updated it this past summer.
Thank you
It should work for you. The BIOS is AMI. I've made a new one that you can try if you like:
Intel Matrix RAID 10.1
Intel Eaglelake VGA BIOS 2042v17
Realtek RTL8168 PXE 2.39
(02-07-2011, 10:26 AM)Dansolo Wrote: [ -> ]It should work for you. The BIOS is AMI. I've made a new one that you can try if you like:
Intel Matrix RAID 10.1
Intel Eaglelake VGA BIOS 2042v17
Realtek RTL8168 PXE 2.39
Dansolo, Is this the exact same one you made that I confirmed working but with just updated ROMs? I wouldn't want to flash and lose RAID 5 support and it break my array.
Thank you!
Yeah. It has RAID-5, and arrays will be compatible between 8.9.1 and 10.1. There is a chance that the machine won't run with 10.1 in which case the system will refuse to boot in RAID mode. But I do think it will work, since 8.9.1 already is over 64KB, so your BIOS obviously doesn't have that problem. And if it does not work, you will just need a flash CD/USB that you can boot in IDE mode to flash back. It won't destroy your array in that case, though booting into Windows in IDE mode DID destroy my Intel RAID-10 array, so make sure not to do that.
Thank you can't wait to use it this weekend. I appreciate it.
(02-07-2011, 10:26 AM)Dansolo Wrote: [ -> ]It should work for you. The BIOS is AMI. I've made a new one that you can try if you like:
Intel Matrix RAID 10.1
Intel Eaglelake VGA BIOS 2042v17
Realtek RTL8168 PXE 2.39
Just flashed this to my RAID 5 array system and a non-RAID system and worked perfect. Thank you!