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Hance Rapids SATA HostRaid Driver Installation for GA-8KNXP Ultra-64
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 |
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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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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Kelvin,
I think I ran across what probably happened to your Raid array. Intel had upgraded the 6300ESB driver so that it is compatible with both the ICH-5 and ICH-6. In doing so, older arrays made with the older 6300ESB driver will not work with the newer driver. Could that driver you installed from 'Gateway ?' have been the upgraded version? I don't know if migrating back to the original driver would have even been an option but I'm willing to bet you got caught in the middle. You did the right thing by swinging your SATA drives onto the Silicon Image controller. You can also run your ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drives from this controller if you use a Silicon Image chip based IDE-SATA converter on the back of the CD/DVD-ROM. To answer your question..... Yes, you're right, you'll need a floppy disk with SCSI support drivers on them for your SCSI CD-ROM. Visit Bootdisk.Com and download a good Win98 bootdisk, at the bottom of the website you'll find "Modify your custom bootdisk to boot from a SCSI CD" follow that link to the next page and follow the instructions to include the files within the 'scsiboot.exe' file highlighted. I've been using these modified boot floppies for years. Perform the F6 option while installing WinXP to load your SCSI controller drivers. Make sure you have your SCSI devices configured properly before you start and don't forget to check twice all the connections and terminator, this particularly true for U320 SCSI. My last PC had only SCSI devices and that is why I chose this motherboard to migrate some of my SCSI devices (hard drives and tape backup). I've now got about all my devices converted to SATA (hard drives, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM). My next project is using a Silicon Image 3124-2 PCI-X board to attach some new faster SATA-300 hard drives. My other PCI-X slot is already filled with a Firewire-800 card and prior to WinXP SP2 was really working at great speeds. Thanks to WinXP SP2 the speed is about halved. This board invites the owner to experiment with all the IDE, SATA, SCSI, and Raid combinations. It's a shame there isn't better support from Gigabyte. Have a Good Day! Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... 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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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well, i did some more test... here's the scenerio. i have two
drives...one is the western digital 200gb which i will refer to as the wd drive from now on...the other is the seagate 400gb which i'll refer to as seagate from now on. i installed xp w/ the wd drive connected to the intel sata controller, everything works fine and is stable. when i try to install xp w/ the seagate connected to the same controller, same port, using the same cd and same sata controller drivers it crashes all the time. now i can install the same seagate drive connected to the sil 3114r controller, which is stable and fine, but when windows start up and i install the intel sata controller driver, it gives me an error. according to the event viewer, aarich.sys is the cause of the problem. i've experienced this before when trying to run partition magic and it would tell me the aarich.sys is causing errors. i've tried different versions of the drivers for the adaptec embedded hostraid controllers. none will work. at times i'm able to install xp onto the seagate using the intel controller, but once it's done installing it either hangs or will not boot at all. now you're think, why not just put both drives on the same controllers. well, i'm actually looking to get 4 more sata drives... one more 200gb same as the wd, and 3 more 400gb same as the seagate. so i need all the controllers to work. also, i want to put the windows install on the seagate raid so i need the intel driver to work in windows. much appreciated for all your help so far. "Jeff French" wrote in message news:HmmPd.64918$eT5.46476@attbi_s51... Kelvin, I think I ran across what probably happened to your Raid array. Intel had upgraded the 6300ESB driver so that it is compatible with both the ICH-5 and ICH-6. In doing so, older arrays made with the older 6300ESB driver will not work with the newer driver. Could that driver you installed from 'Gateway ?' have been the upgraded version? I don't know if migrating back to the original driver would have even been an option but I'm willing to bet you got caught in the middle. You did the right thing by swinging your SATA drives onto the Silicon Image controller. You can also run your ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drives from this controller if you use a Silicon Image chip based IDE-SATA converter on the back of the CD/DVD-ROM. To answer your question..... Yes, you're right, you'll need a floppy disk with SCSI support drivers on them for your SCSI CD-ROM. Visit Bootdisk.Com and download a good Win98 bootdisk, at the bottom of the website you'll find "Modify your custom bootdisk to boot from a SCSI CD" follow that link to the next page and follow the instructions to include the files within the 'scsiboot.exe' file highlighted. I've been using these modified boot floppies for years. Perform the F6 option while installing WinXP to load your SCSI controller drivers. Make sure you have your SCSI devices configured properly before you start and don't forget to check twice all the connections and terminator, this particularly true for U320 SCSI. My last PC had only SCSI devices and that is why I chose this motherboard to migrate some of my SCSI devices (hard drives and tape backup). I've now got about all my devices converted to SATA (hard drives, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM). My next project is using a Silicon Image 3124-2 PCI-X board to attach some new faster SATA-300 hard drives. My other PCI-X slot is already filled with a Firewire-800 card and prior to WinXP SP2 was really working at great speeds. Thanks to WinXP SP2 the speed is about halved. This board invites the owner to experiment with all the IDE, SATA, SCSI, and Raid combinations. It's a shame there isn't better support from Gigabyte. Have a Good Day! Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... 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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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Kelvin,
I suggest you, reinstall the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility from the motherboard CD and then the Raid driver from the motherboard CD. Follow the following procedures: Disable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Install a single hard drive to SATA0_SB port. Install WinXP to this single drive using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the drivers for the non-Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). Once WinXP is finished loading run the 'Express Install' function on the motherboard CD. This will load all the default drivers. Now enable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Re-install WinXP using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). This should clean-out all the suspect drivers and put your system back on an even keel. Don't forget to format your other hard drive when you finally get around to connecting it, the Raid partition on it is also suspect. This should give a PC with two Raid sets, one on the Intel SATA and the other on the Silicon Image SATA. Let me know how it works out. Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... well, i did some more test... here's the scenerio. i have two drives...one is the western digital 200gb which i will refer to as the wd drive from now on...the other is the seagate 400gb which i'll refer to as seagate from now on. i installed xp w/ the wd drive connected to the intel sata controller, everything works fine and is stable. when i try to install xp w/ the seagate connected to the same controller, same port, using the same cd and same sata controller drivers it crashes all the time. now i can install the same seagate drive connected to the sil 3114r controller, which is stable and fine, but when windows start up and i install the intel sata controller driver, it gives me an error. according to the event viewer, aarich.sys is the cause of the problem. i've experienced this before when trying to run partition magic and it would tell me the aarich.sys is causing errors. i've tried different versions of the drivers for the adaptec embedded hostraid controllers. none will work. at times i'm able to install xp onto the seagate using the intel controller, but once it's done installing it either hangs or will not boot at all. now you're think, why not just put both drives on the same controllers. well, i'm actually looking to get 4 more sata drives... one more 200gb same as the wd, and 3 more 400gb same as the seagate. so i need all the controllers to work. also, i want to put the windows install on the seagate raid so i need the intel driver to work in windows. much appreciated for all your help so far. "Jeff French" wrote in message news:HmmPd.64918$eT5.46476@attbi_s51... Kelvin, I think I ran across what probably happened to your Raid array. Intel had upgraded the 6300ESB driver so that it is compatible with both the ICH-5 and ICH-6. In doing so, older arrays made with the older 6300ESB driver will not work with the newer driver. Could that driver you installed from 'Gateway ?' have been the upgraded version? I don't know if migrating back to the original driver would have even been an option but I'm willing to bet you got caught in the middle. You did the right thing by swinging your SATA drives onto the Silicon Image controller. You can also run your ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drives from this controller if you use a Silicon Image chip based IDE-SATA converter on the back of the CD/DVD-ROM. To answer your question..... Yes, you're right, you'll need a floppy disk with SCSI support drivers on them for your SCSI CD-ROM. Visit Bootdisk.Com and download a good Win98 bootdisk, at the bottom of the website you'll find "Modify your custom bootdisk to boot from a SCSI CD" follow that link to the next page and follow the instructions to include the files within the 'scsiboot.exe' file highlighted. I've been using these modified boot floppies for years. Perform the F6 option while installing WinXP to load your SCSI controller drivers. Make sure you have your SCSI devices configured properly before you start and don't forget to check twice all the connections and terminator, this particularly true for U320 SCSI. My last PC had only SCSI devices and that is why I chose this motherboard to migrate some of my SCSI devices (hard drives and tape backup). I've now got about all my devices converted to SATA (hard drives, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM). My next project is using a Silicon Image 3124-2 PCI-X board to attach some new faster SATA-300 hard drives. My other PCI-X slot is already filled with a Firewire-800 card and prior to WinXP SP2 was really working at great speeds. Thanks to WinXP SP2 the speed is about halved. This board invites the owner to experiment with all the IDE, SATA, SCSI, and Raid combinations. It's a shame there isn't better support from Gigabyte. Have a Good Day! Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... 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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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Kelvin,
This is probably a dumb question but you do have more than just the two hard drives (wd & seagate). Are you trying to create a Raid set of one hard drive each? And finally, are you swapping the hard drives from one Raid controller to the other without first deleting the drive from the Raid set and formatting the partition? Jeff "Jeff French" wrote in message news:knyPd.64089$EG1.1565@attbi_s53... Kelvin, I suggest you, reinstall the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility from the motherboard CD and then the Raid driver from the motherboard CD. Follow the following procedures: Disable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Install a single hard drive to SATA0_SB port. Install WinXP to this single drive using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the drivers for the non-Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). Once WinXP is finished loading run the 'Express Install' function on the motherboard CD. This will load all the default drivers. Now enable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Re-install WinXP using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). This should clean-out all the suspect drivers and put your system back on an even keel. Don't forget to format your other hard drive when you finally get around to connecting it, the Raid partition on it is also suspect. This should give a PC with two Raid sets, one on the Intel SATA and the other on the Silicon Image SATA. Let me know how it works out. Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... well, i did some more test... here's the scenerio. i have two drives...one is the western digital 200gb which i will refer to as the wd drive from now on...the other is the seagate 400gb which i'll refer to as seagate from now on. i installed xp w/ the wd drive connected to the intel sata controller, everything works fine and is stable. when i try to install xp w/ the seagate connected to the same controller, same port, using the same cd and same sata controller drivers it crashes all the time. now i can install the same seagate drive connected to the sil 3114r controller, which is stable and fine, but when windows start up and i install the intel sata controller driver, it gives me an error. according to the event viewer, aarich.sys is the cause of the problem. i've experienced this before when trying to run partition magic and it would tell me the aarich.sys is causing errors. i've tried different versions of the drivers for the adaptec embedded hostraid controllers. none will work. at times i'm able to install xp onto the seagate using the intel controller, but once it's done installing it either hangs or will not boot at all. now you're think, why not just put both drives on the same controllers. well, i'm actually looking to get 4 more sata drives... one more 200gb same as the wd, and 3 more 400gb same as the seagate. so i need all the controllers to work. also, i want to put the windows install on the seagate raid so i need the intel driver to work in windows. much appreciated for all your help so far. "Jeff French" wrote in message news:HmmPd.64918$eT5.46476@attbi_s51... Kelvin, I think I ran across what probably happened to your Raid array. Intel had upgraded the 6300ESB driver so that it is compatible with both the ICH-5 and ICH-6. In doing so, older arrays made with the older 6300ESB driver will not work with the newer driver. Could that driver you installed from 'Gateway ?' have been the upgraded version? I don't know if migrating back to the original driver would have even been an option but I'm willing to bet you got caught in the middle. You did the right thing by swinging your SATA drives onto the Silicon Image controller. You can also run your ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drives from this controller if you use a Silicon Image chip based IDE-SATA converter on the back of the CD/DVD-ROM. To answer your question..... Yes, you're right, you'll need a floppy disk with SCSI support drivers on them for your SCSI CD-ROM. Visit Bootdisk.Com and download a good Win98 bootdisk, at the bottom of the website you'll find "Modify your custom bootdisk to boot from a SCSI CD" follow that link to the next page and follow the instructions to include the files within the 'scsiboot.exe' file highlighted. I've been using these modified boot floppies for years. Perform the F6 option while installing WinXP to load your SCSI controller drivers. Make sure you have your SCSI devices configured properly before you start and don't forget to check twice all the connections and terminator, this particularly true for U320 SCSI. My last PC had only SCSI devices and that is why I chose this motherboard to migrate some of my SCSI devices (hard drives and tape backup). I've now got about all my devices converted to SATA (hard drives, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM). My next project is using a Silicon Image 3124-2 PCI-X board to attach some new faster SATA-300 hard drives. My other PCI-X slot is already filled with a Firewire-800 card and prior to WinXP SP2 was really working at great speeds. Thanks to WinXP SP2 the speed is about halved. This board invites the owner to experiment with all the IDE, SATA, SCSI, and Raid combinations. It's a shame there isn't better support from Gigabyte. Have a Good Day! Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... 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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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no, originally i intended to create a raid of 4xseagate drives and 2xwd
drives. 2 being on the intel controller and 4 being on the sil 3114. now the 400gb will install successfully on the sil 3114 but once it is installed, it will not recognize the intel controller once the drivers are installed. keeps telling me that aarich.sys is problematic. if i install xp on the intel controller using the wd, it will also install w/o problems, but if i try installing the seagate on the intel controller, i won't get far before xp decides not to boot up. my conclusion is somehow the seagate and the intel have incompatiblity issues. also, i'd like to point out i'm formating these drives w/ the bios low-level format function. so it's like from the factory, no partition. anyway, i'm still running more tests. thanks for all your help so far. "Jeff French" wrote in message news:QmIPd.35827$C24.16707@attbi_s52... Kelvin, This is probably a dumb question but you do have more than just the two hard drives (wd & seagate). Are you trying to create a Raid set of one hard drive each? And finally, are you swapping the hard drives from one Raid controller to the other without first deleting the drive from the Raid set and formatting the partition? Jeff "Jeff French" wrote in message news:knyPd.64089$EG1.1565@attbi_s53... Kelvin, I suggest you, reinstall the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility from the motherboard CD and then the Raid driver from the motherboard CD. Follow the following procedures: Disable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Install a single hard drive to SATA0_SB port. Install WinXP to this single drive using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the drivers for the non-Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). Once WinXP is finished loading run the 'Express Install' function on the motherboard CD. This will load all the default drivers. Now enable the SATA Raid Function in the BIOS. Re-install WinXP using the F6 option and the floppy disk having the Raid drivers (from the motherboard CD - floppy build). This should clean-out all the suspect drivers and put your system back on an even keel. Don't forget to format your other hard drive when you finally get around to connecting it, the Raid partition on it is also suspect. This should give a PC with two Raid sets, one on the Intel SATA and the other on the Silicon Image SATA. Let me know how it works out. Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... well, i did some more test... here's the scenerio. i have two drives...one is the western digital 200gb which i will refer to as the wd drive from now on...the other is the seagate 400gb which i'll refer to as seagate from now on. i installed xp w/ the wd drive connected to the intel sata controller, everything works fine and is stable. when i try to install xp w/ the seagate connected to the same controller, same port, using the same cd and same sata controller drivers it crashes all the time. now i can install the same seagate drive connected to the sil 3114r controller, which is stable and fine, but when windows start up and i install the intel sata controller driver, it gives me an error. according to the event viewer, aarich.sys is the cause of the problem. i've experienced this before when trying to run partition magic and it would tell me the aarich.sys is causing errors. i've tried different versions of the drivers for the adaptec embedded hostraid controllers. none will work. at times i'm able to install xp onto the seagate using the intel controller, but once it's done installing it either hangs or will not boot at all. now you're think, why not just put both drives on the same controllers. well, i'm actually looking to get 4 more sata drives... one more 200gb same as the wd, and 3 more 400gb same as the seagate. so i need all the controllers to work. also, i want to put the windows install on the seagate raid so i need the intel driver to work in windows. much appreciated for all your help so far. "Jeff French" wrote in message news:HmmPd.64918$eT5.46476@attbi_s51... Kelvin, I think I ran across what probably happened to your Raid array. Intel had upgraded the 6300ESB driver so that it is compatible with both the ICH-5 and ICH-6. In doing so, older arrays made with the older 6300ESB driver will not work with the newer driver. Could that driver you installed from 'Gateway ?' have been the upgraded version? I don't know if migrating back to the original driver would have even been an option but I'm willing to bet you got caught in the middle. You did the right thing by swinging your SATA drives onto the Silicon Image controller. You can also run your ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drives from this controller if you use a Silicon Image chip based IDE-SATA converter on the back of the CD/DVD-ROM. To answer your question..... Yes, you're right, you'll need a floppy disk with SCSI support drivers on them for your SCSI CD-ROM. Visit Bootdisk.Com and download a good Win98 bootdisk, at the bottom of the website you'll find "Modify your custom bootdisk to boot from a SCSI CD" follow that link to the next page and follow the instructions to include the files within the 'scsiboot.exe' file highlighted. I've been using these modified boot floppies for years. Perform the F6 option while installing WinXP to load your SCSI controller drivers. Make sure you have your SCSI devices configured properly before you start and don't forget to check twice all the connections and terminator, this particularly true for U320 SCSI. My last PC had only SCSI devices and that is why I chose this motherboard to migrate some of my SCSI devices (hard drives and tape backup). I've now got about all my devices converted to SATA (hard drives, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM). My next project is using a Silicon Image 3124-2 PCI-X board to attach some new faster SATA-300 hard drives. My other PCI-X slot is already filled with a Firewire-800 card and prior to WinXP SP2 was really working at great speeds. Thanks to WinXP SP2 the speed is about halved. This board invites the owner to experiment with all the IDE, SATA, SCSI, and Raid combinations. It's a shame there isn't better support from Gigabyte. Have a Good Day! Jeff "Kelvin" wrote in message ... 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 news:MldPd.64403$eT5.61183@attbi_s51... 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 |
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