Re: Windows XP not seeing RAID

From: Rube (dont_at_spam.me)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:40:14 -0800

Try setting up the 2 x 36's first. Do not connect the other 2 x 80's. (You
may even want to disable the VIA controller)
In Asus's bios, make sure to boot from the promise controller.
Boot into promise's bios and setup the raid 0.
Install XP using F6 with the promise disk supplied by asus.
Verify windows boots reliably after shutting down.
In Asus' bios, re-enable the VIA controller
reboot.
Let windows install the driver. It will see the controller (hopefully) with
no drives.
reboot
Install the 2 x 80's and create the raid in VIA's bios.
reboot.
check disk manager.

"Greg" <greg_68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have an Asus A8V motherboard, which has two onboard RAID controllers
> (Promise & VIA). For months now I had no problem with using both RAID
> controllers. I have two Western Digital 36.7GB 10,000 RPM SATA in RAID 0
> for my C drive using Promise and two Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA as my D
> drive using VIA. Even with all of the Windows updates I managed to get
some
> spyware that just kept coming back (Adaware would get rid of it, but
somehow
> it kept coming back). So I decided to format and re-install Windows.
>
> After Windows XP completed the install, it was showing my VIA RAID as two
> separate drives in Disk Management. So, I installed the RAID drivers
hoping
> that would help (Windows only let me provide one RAID driver during
> installation, so I provided the Promise drivers since that's for my boot
> drive). I re-booted, but nothing had changed and the VIA RAID Utility
says
> there isn't a RAID. So, I rebooted and deleted, then created the RAID
> again. I went into the BIOS and it does show the RAID properly. I booted
> into Windows, but still it shows the drives separately in Disk Management
> and again the VIA RAID Utility still says there isn't a RAID.
>
> The two drives for this RAID also show up in the Device Manager,
insteading
> of showing the RAID.
>
> Any one know what the problem is?
>
>

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