AISBackup and RAID

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Nicolas Forwood
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AISBackup and RAID

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Hello Barry

After 7 years it was time to say goodbye to my old DELL Dimension 8100.So I built a new PC myself with an ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Intel ICH9R Chipset, SATA2 WD2500AAKS Caviar SE16 /250/7200/16MB, ASUS SATA DVD +/- RW DRW-2014L1T, and 2GB DDR3/1066 memory. OS still the same, XP(SP2). I also connected the 2 existing EIDE hard drives I had on my DELL 80GB and 40GB.

It is about 2 weeks now that I have the above running, all is fine and did 2 good backups on DVD+RW with AISBackup. A couple of days ago, I decided to enable the AHCI controller in my BIOS and in the process I learned that I should have installed a driver before I installed XP. So I re installed XP including the Intel RAID / AHCI Driver and although I don’t have RAID now at least the system is ready to do so in the future.

Now I discover that AISBackup is not working, On the CD-RW DVD-RW Erase Session window it shows currently Loaded ? = None and the Erase button is Faded. However it did work to make a mirror copy from C:\ to D:\. I also noticed that I have now a new driver, Jmicron JMB36X RAID Configurer Tool, and I suspect that it may interfer with AISBackup.

Is it possible that AISBackup is not compatible with RAID / AHCI ? I know that with RAID1, a backup may not be required but I would still prefer, if I can, to have a backup on DVD’s.

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Post by Nicolas Forwood »

Trying to get AISBackup (2.5, 309) working on my new system, this is what I discover today (As I mentioned earlier, I have 1 SATA 250GB HD, and 2 IDE HD’s + my DVD+/-RW is SATA).

My BIOS SATA configuration settings has 3 options: IDE, AHCI & RAID. If I set it to AHCI or RAID, AISBackup does not see my DVD+/-RW but my other DVD authoring programs (CDBurnerXP, DeepBurner, Micro20) they see my DVD and I am able to write files on them.

If I set the BIOS SATA configuration settings to IDE, then AISBackup sees my DVD and works fine.
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AISBackup detecting DVD writer

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Please try the Tools / Program Settings and Options / Troubleshoot DVD option to see if another installed ASPI driver detects the drive.

It is possible that AISBackup is defaulting to an incompatible ASPI driver.

Barry
Nicolas Forwood
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Post by Nicolas Forwood »

It has been so long that AISBackup is working so well that I forgot all about the settings.

No all is working fine

Thank you
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Post by Nicolas Forwood »

Perhaps other Forum Members may find the following of interest.

My mobo has 4 Primary SATA Ports (Red) and 2 Ports which are black. I had pluged my SATA DVD+/-RW to a black port.

Reading on ASUS forums I learned that a SATA device can be pluged to either red or black ports whereas an IDE device should be pluged to a red port if it is a Master Boot disk and black port if it is a Slave data disk.

Connecting my DVD+/-RW to a Red port solved my problems with AISBackup. I now have the default ASPI driver and I dont get during the test face of a backup the message that I have to re start AISB to complete the test.
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