Dignus Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Hey all, Recently I bought myself 2 SSD's from Vertex to put in raid 0. Windows 7 flies on this setup! Now I want to replace Windows 7 by OS X. I understand that my ICH10R RAID functionallity isn't going to work. It shows me 2 seperate disks while I configured a RAID 0 array in the bios. I can create a software raid installation in diskutil, install on it, but booting from it doesn't work. What are my alternatives? I could install on 1 disk, but given that these are expensive SSD's I don't like one sitting around doing nothing but catching dust. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169501-install-on-ich10r-raid/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterh1 Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } BIOS RAID with the Intel ICHx chipsets simply does not work with Macintosh at this point, and, judging by the amount of interest in this matter, it is going to stay like this for a long time. Perhaps support for this will never reach Macintosh. Support for it was difficult enough to find for Linux and BSD and exists for Windows only because Intel itself created the necessary drivers (Though these drivers are not present on Windows installation disks). The solution is to get a hardware RAID controller than can work independantly of the operating system or to use Macintosh's own software RAID function. Without a doubt, I highly recommend hardware RAID. It is much less hassle, it is faster, and it will work regardless of what operating system you decide to run on your system (Which should be the case for all hardware). Hey all, Recently I bought myself 2 SSD's from Vertex to put in raid 0. Windows 7 flies on this setup! Now I want to replace Windows 7 by OS X. I understand that my ICH10R RAID functionallity isn't going to work. It shows me 2 seperate disks while I configured a RAID 0 array in the bios. I can create a software raid installation in diskutil, install on it, but booting from it doesn't work. What are my alternatives? I could install on 1 disk, but given that these are expensive SSD's I don't like one sitting around doing nothing but catching dust. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169501-install-on-ich10r-raid/#findComment-1196828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan99 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Hey all, Recently I bought myself 2 SSD's from Vertex to put in raid 0. Windows 7 flies on this setup! Now I want to replace Windows 7 by OS X. I understand that my ICH10R RAID functionallity isn't going to work. It shows me 2 seperate disks while I configured a RAID 0 array in the bios. I can create a software raid installation in diskutil, install on it, but booting from it doesn't work. What are my alternatives? I could install on 1 disk, but given that these are expensive SSD's I don't like one sitting around doing nothing but catching dust. Any ideas? The Chameleon v2 Bootloader will boot off apple softraids. the ich10r wont work, but its fakeraid (uses cpu for raid operations rather than specialized hardware and processor) just like the apple raid stuff. get chameleon v2, install on a raid taht u set up in disk util, and boot. should work just fine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169501-install-on-ich10r-raid/#findComment-1241480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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