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Well I stopped using raid couple of years ago. Seems they would work for a while then take a lunch break and never return to work. I just use the raid controllers like they are a regular SATA controller. Have 6 drives working with no problems to date.
I to have noticed that SATA drives are set to 1.5 G instead of 3 G straight from the factory. Just remove the jumper and you get 3 G. Would be nice for the manufacture to indicate this on the box thought I will admit that it is printed on the drive on how to set it. Was a while before I noticed this little tidbit. You do not have to remove the drives from your system, just take a small paper clip bend part of it straight and form a small hook at the end of straight portion. Works like a charm to remove the jumper (they are very small and hard to remove otherwise).
Zarlon
I have all but given up on using the motherboard raid controllers. Each time they would work for a while then eat the raid. This has happened on numerous workstations that I support (different models/makes of PC’s).
My thing I have noticed is that when you buy SATA hard drives the drives come configured as 1.5 GB not 3.0 BB as you would expect. Generally it involves removing a jumper on drive to initiate 3.0 GB. Check that the drives in raid are set to same speed.
