Sil 3112a SATA Raid controller problems in XP

Hi all. Another issue with the 3112a, I hope someone can help me.

I have an A7N8X-dx (deluxe), which of course has the 3112a. There is a single Seagate 80MB SATA drive and this system runs like a top. A couple months ago, I experienced the wonderful SATA corruption issue under 1.03 bios and went through a little hell fixing it with 1.04. While I could copy all my files off the drive, the boot sector was toast and in fact the drive failed Seagate diagnostics. So I bought another 80MB drive, and sent back the 2 month old 80 for a replacement. I wanted to run RAID 1 anyway. What I unexpectantly got back was a brand new 120MB drive.

I put the new drive in the secondary SATA position and created a RAID 1 set, with disk copy on. It ran to exactly 4% and showed “rebuild” for the second drive, which I did. It gets to 4%, and then I hear some drive chugging, then it ends the process. No errors are generated, the menus are active, it just didn’t build the cluster. I don’t think that a larger drive is a problem (worst case is some wasted space) but it will not rebuild the drive.

When I reboot, it tells me the raid set is incomplete, and after a short delay it continues on and the system is otherwise normal.

Any ideas?

Thank you!!

Jeff

Some details:
Athlon xp 2500, two PC3200 256k sticks (Corsair), XP Home.

[AcIdBuRn52383]

first off.. are the jumpers on the back of the drives set properly? if so.. is the slave/master settings set properly in the bios and are the drives ran on the same cable instead of seperate ones?

what i didnt really get from what you said is which drive it isnt allowing to rebuild... the 120 or the 80?

also, you might want to check drive compatability. ive ran into problems with that before.

ne way, get back with me and ill c what i can do.

-AcidBurn-

SATA drives do not have jumpers. They self configure.