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Old February 12th 05, 06:10 AM
Kelvin
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thanks for ur help jeff. anyhow, here's my situation. i'm aware of those
steps. i did install windows xp successfully once. however, i recently
just bought a seagate 400gb drive, i have it hooked up to the hance rapids
controller (previously thought was the adaptec hostraid controller) and
windows install. once it's done installing it crashes after awhile. it
would continue to reboot until i shut the machine off. i found the problem
and apparently aarich.sys is the cause. anyhow, now i'm using the sil 3114
controller and things are good again. anyway, thanks for the info jeff.
cleared up that little mishap. one more question, is it possible to boot
from a scsi cd-rom and install windows? or do i need to get a dos bootdisk
and install the u320 dos drivers?


"Jeff French" wrote in message
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Kelvin,
I kept scratching my head over this one. As I have stated, I'm not
familiar with this Raid (Hance Rapids - 6300ESB SATA Raid) because I don't
use it. I have my SATA DVDs connected to these connections and use the
Silicon Image Sil 3114 controller for my SATA hard drives.
On the motherboard CD in the BootDrv directory are all the floppy
installed drivers. Click on Menu.exe. This will bring up a 'Command Prompt
window' with a menu of all the drivers available. Place a formatted floppy
disk in your floppy drive, at the prompt, enter 'G' (Hance Rapids Raid),
and then 'return'. The Hance Rapids Raid drivers will be loaded onto the
floppy disk. When finished the Menu will return, simply enter '0', the
'Command Prompt window' will disappear. Check your floppy disk and you
should find the following files and directory:

HRAIDSK1
TXTSETUP.OEM
WIN32 - DIRECTORY
AARICH.CAT
AARICH.SYS
ADHRAID.CAT
ADHRAID.INF
OEMSETUP.INF

'Enable' the 'SATA RAID Function' in the motherboard BIOS. Connect your
two SATA hard drives to the SATA0_SB and SATA1_SB connections, then
install WinXP. Use the F6 option early in the installation process and
place the floppy disk made above to load the Hance Rapids Raid drivers. I
think you know the rest of the process (about using 'Ctrl S' to bring up
the Adaptec SATA HostRaid Controller utility to configure your hard drive
array).

I hope you find this information useful.

Good Luck
Jeff