Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 RAID 0 Installation

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The specifications of the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 motherboard show that RAID is natively available from the motherboard via these methods:

 

South Bridge:
6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0, SATA2_1, SATA2_2, SATA2_3, SATA2_4, SATA2_5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

Marvell 9128 chip:
2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (GSATA3_6, GSATA3_7) supporting up to 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices
Support for SATA RAID 0, and RAID 1

GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATA2_8, GSATA2_9) supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD

JMicron JMB362 chip:
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s connectors (eSATA/USB Combo) on the back panel sup- porting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD

 

Is it possible to RAID 0 two drives at the motherboard level and then do an OS X installation?

 

If it is possible which connectors would you have to use? The South Bridge, Marvell, Gigabyte or the JMicron?

 

Thanks.

[danilson88]

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[dlang]

I tried to do a raid across the intel southbridge seperate from the MAC OSX disc. MAC saw them as completely seperate drives, So I doubt you can do it outside of MAC without an official Hardware card. But I could be wrong.

 

I wanted to raid 0 my win7 and leave MAC on its own disc, but still have access via virtual machines. So if you can figure this out, I would be interested.

 

I would suggest using each chipset to make a raid 0, and then booting into the Apple installer and running disk utility.. see if any of the Raids are viewed as a single drive...

 

If they are then you should be good, if not, then I wouldn't try it.

[digitalsoul4]

just a quick update,

 

i used kakewalk 2.2, which seemed to work pretty well, vanilla, i didnt add any additional kexts or scripts which i found to be amazing.

 

i did have to partition the 1t drive into two 500gb partitions, the 1t was taking a {censored} for some reason, after that i was, well, a cakewalk...

 

the only thing that i found weird was that quicktime files did not want to play in QTX , but play in Itunes and QT7.

 

they would load and scrub, just no playing...

 

thanks all!