RE: windows xp sata problem - cd installations

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From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:25:02 -0800

If you have a single SATA drive, 'the NVIDIA RAID allows multi-disk designs
to be set up as RAID 0,1,0+1 based on users’ priority of protection/
performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by
introducing the innovative windows-based facility'.

Despite perhaps using this facility, it may be that you have installed an
incorrect driver; you should choose the correct RAID level for this single
disk.

"pixel" wrote:

> having a bizare problem when installing some programs from cd onto sata
> drives. someone else i know had this problem too.
>
> most of the time the sata disk is fine and works normally (raptor 36GB,
> on a gigabyte nForce4-SLI mobo). has been scanned etc and no problems
> there. but every now and then on some installations from cd the pc will
> stop responding, like explorer seems to freeze. is this likely to be
> just a windows glitch...?
>
> one thing to note is that to get this disk visible in winXP it had to be
> set up with nvidia's raid software.... (Sil3114 raid) hopefully that's
> not causing any probs...?
>

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