I have been running WHS v1 on my N36L since I got it, but it has been getting flakey lately so I decided it was time to tear the shrinkwrap off of that copy of WHS 2011 that I bought months ago. I plan on using all of the SATA ports so I wanted them running at full speed. So loaded the "enhanced" BIOS from TheBay. Everything worked great when I had the controller set to AHCI, but when I set the SATA controller mode to RAID in the BIOS it would act like there were no drives in the machine and try to boot from the NIC. They showed up on the initial splash screen, but only after setting it back to AHCI and rebooting would it show drives on the boot device menu.
I could reload the factory HP BIOS, but I loaded WHS with the 160GB drive in the ODD bay set to AHCI so that may be a one way ticket to BSOD-land. I tried to roll my own BIOS as suggested here, but the same thing happened. I have never used the onboard RAID on the Microserver so I don't know if it was working before the BIOS flash or not.
As an alternative to the onboard RAID I set up a RAID 5 volume in Disk Management with the 4x2TB drives in the trays. That was five hours ago and it is still resyncing. I really wanted to do RAID 1+0 with the onboard controller, but it seems I may not be able to.
Any suggestions?
I could reload the factory HP BIOS, but I loaded WHS with the 160GB drive in the ODD bay set to AHCI so that may be a one way ticket to BSOD-land. I tried to roll my own BIOS as suggested here, but the same thing happened. I have never used the onboard RAID on the Microserver so I don't know if it was working before the BIOS flash or not.
As an alternative to the onboard RAID I set up a RAID 5 volume in Disk Management with the 4x2TB drives in the trays. That was five hours ago and it is still resyncing. I really wanted to do RAID 1+0 with the onboard controller, but it seems I may not be able to.
Any suggestions?