raid sas with ml310G4

[antoine clair]

did i have to press the S key one more time to add the secon sas disk during the installation of windows? if it's the case, is it possible to do it from windows?

[~sesh]

Pressing F6 & S doesn't need to be pressed multiple times for each hard disk. It loads only the drivers for the controller & not the hard drives.

Since you have configured RAID 1, in Windows you will see only 1 drive (logical), and not 2 two physical hard drives. When you use two drives for RAID 1, it results in 1 logical drive of 146 GB. So in Windows Disk Management you see only 1 drive (there will be no mention about RAID, since it has been configured outside Windows).

[antoine clair]

thank you adric, but how to know if the raid is ok?

[~sesh]

You can install & use the Smart Array SAS/SATA Event Notification Service, and watch the Windows Event log for any errors regarding the array.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3201057&prodNameId=3279696&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-aa51ff97b77e4d49926a645b39

Alternatively,

If this HBA is from Adaptec, try this:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/storage_manager/asm_windows_x86_v5_20_17414_exe.htm

If this is an LSI Logic HBA (depending on the LSI logic card), download the appropriate MegaRAID Manager from:

http://www.lsi.com/cm/DownloadSearch.do?locale=EN

[antoine clair]

Megaraid manager is ok, thank you !