I have two ssd's ready for my 3,1. I know you can't boot windows off the spare sata ports on the mobo but I was wondering if I just used one ssd on the spare sata port and one in the hdd bay (the plan is to raid 0 them) I should be able to natively boot windows right? or is that still a no? Also does anyone happen to know if trim is enabled yet for raid?
POWER PC G5-OTHER
Boot Camp doesn't support RAID configuration.
TRIM is only supported by Apple on Apple-brand SSD devices.
It may take SATA-3 interfaces to quiet down the TRIM situation. The Mac Pro looks set to skip SATA-3 and go straight to the PCIe Bus for the new Mac Pro.
Apple RAID drives are RAID drives because a RAID Driver is written to the drive. You can remove those drives, shuffle them, and re-install them in a different Mac and they will still be a RAID and operate properly.
Windoze does not acknowledge the existence of "other" Operating Systems. Apple RAIDs do not work in Windoze. And since the drives contain RAID Drivers, the drives do not act as non-RAID Drives in any OS.
could you possibly raid it from the bootcamp side so windows would recognize it then? or is that still a no?
The ODD ports are not enabled or visible. Whether anyone has found a way, I doubt it, as it would have to be for this particular Intel motherboard and chipset. And those were not for Apple version of Mac Pro.
Want an array, find a PCIe controller that also does not need to be reflashed or disconnected switching platforms.
Spare Sata port and HDD Bay Boot Windows?
