Adaptec IDE RAID: No boot devices were found
From: ivenholt (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/06/04
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:34:08 -0800
>-----Original Message-----
>SYSTEM:
>Dell Dimension XPS 670MHz P3 BIOS Ver A08
>
>PCI:
>Ver 2.2 33 MHz five slots
>
>DRIVES:
>Identical WD 60GB EIDE
>Both drives jumpered to Master
>
>BIOS SETUP:
>Integrated Primary IDE Controller Disabled
>Boot from (1) floppy (2) Adaptec ATA RAID (3) CDROM
>
>DRIVERS:
>Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A Drivers Installed at O/S install.
>
>Every attempt to boot from RAID results in "No boot
devices were found
>- System halted"
>
>Adaptec BIOS Array Config Utility indicates a properly
configured and
>healthy array.
>
>If I boot to the W2K CD and use Repair, the drives are
recognized, and
>all the diagnostics (e.g. MAP) indicate a healthy array.
>
>I've installed the controller card in each of the five
PCI slots; each
>attempt failed.
>
>On a tangent: I don't see a setting for continuing to
boot and run
>with a failed drive. A mirror array that won't boot to
one drive isn't
>of any use in our configuration.
>
>I've successfully installed a bunch of the Promise RAID
cards without
>any problem. I'm many hours into this project and about
ready to bail
>out. This problem seems like it's being caused by the
driver being
>unavailable to the OS at boot.
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
>.
>
You need to install the raid drivers when you are
installing windows and it asks if you need to load any
third party drivers...make sure you have the right ones
for yous OS. Or you could put a ahrd drive in the boards
IDE slot load windows and the drivers , reset bios then
switch to the card. Also will that system take a 60gb
drive?
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