Re: Windows XP not seeing RAID

From: robbani (robbani_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:15:03 -0800

BobbyM wrote

     It sounds like you did not use the F-6 button when booting up ???,you
will nee a copy of the driver copied from your asus CD before you begin the
process, I have a asus PNP-800-E and had same problem.But once you get used
to using SATA you realize just how much easier it is to install over the
Fdisk and Format process with IDE.

"Rube" wrote:

> 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
> news:%23tKa2m1EFHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > 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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