Re: XP Home Edition & Raid?

The message I get from the Raid Bios is "Bios loaded" or something like that.
The array shows up fine in the windows 3ware management screen (actually, a
webserver directly on the card) but nothing new shows up in the Disk
management utility.

I expected to see a disk show up in the disk management utility that would
ask me to write a signature to the drive, and then partition, or whatever.
But, *nothing* new shows up in that utility. Windows Devices properly shows
the card and indicates everything is fine... Just not getting into disk
management.

I think there is something broken with my version of XP Home Edition.

What services should be running to enable Disk Management to discover new
devices?

"DL" wrote:

If you installed the card, updated firmware & drivers from 3ware site - NOT
winupdate - then entered the raid bios & configered / built the array, as
per 3ware instructions, at the end of the process you would likely have seen
the msg 'syncronised' or similar, the system would then have booted to win,
once you exited the 3ware bios.
At this stage your array is functioning, you will see *nothing* in disk
management pertaining to an array, assuming you are using mirror (raid 1)
you will only see a single HD in Disk Management. ie the array is identified
as a single HD

I would further suspect that when you reboot your system after the initial
bios screen there will be a second 3ware bios msg stating that the raid is
functional.

Depending on the 3ware card, and I didnt check yours, there maybe a utility
installed, which can be accessed in win which will report on the status of
your raid and the hd's

"Michael" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the speedy reply, DL.

I should elaborate.

I tried a software RAID solution. Didn't work. Uninstalled everything.

I purchased a 3WARE controller. Installed it, updated drivers, checked
firmware, configured an array.... per the manual. *BUT* it still doesn't
work, for the same reason the software raid didn't work...

The Windows XP Home Edition Disk Managment Utility is not finding the
array.
Nothing. It's not there. But, the 3ware software says it is operating
and
available. As I said, this is the same problem I had with the software
solution.

I believe there is something wrong elsewhere in the system. Either
something with XP Home Edition, or something with the Disk Management
Utility.

Now, I looked through some of the logs, and found that "the logical disk"
service had stopped. It was set to manual start. I set it to automatic
and
restarted, but it still didn't show anything in Disk Management.

Any ideas? Am I on the right track... or even in the right station?
Suggestions for what I should look for?

-Mike

"DL" wrote:

Software raid is somewhere you shouldnt go.
You would need to install the raid drivers supplied by 3ware, enter the
3ware raid bios, usually when booting, then configure your raid.
Its got absolutly nothing to do with Disk Management or win xp
You need to read the manual supplied by 3ware

"Michael" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've tried to install both a software based raid solution, and now
3ware
9650
controller card based raid solution, onto my XP Home Edition pc. Both
times, I get everything loaded but then am unable to find the device
using
the "Disk Management" utility found in the conftrol panel. I thought
this
was a bug with the software based controller, but now I think this is a
bug
w/ Windows XP Home Edition.

I found some information indicating that "dynamic disks" were not
supported
by Home Edition. Would these RAID subsystems rely on this, or would it
appear as a "basic disk" and so show up in Home Edition Disk
Management?

Any assistance will be really, really appreciated.

-Mike






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