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R.A.I.D. for beginners part 2.
Hi again,
Firstly thanks to those who have replied to my previous post with helpful info. Now to business, I have partitioned and formatted my drives ready for install. No problem there now that I have left the jumpers off. Next I connect both drives to a ribbon cable and plug it into the IDE Raid port on the board. OK, the BIOS is set to boot from CD so I put the XP Pro disk in and away we go. First message is that no drives are attached to the fastrak controller and the bios is not installed. So we boot from the cd anyhow and the message to load raid drivers PRESS F6 comes up, so I do and it just carries on loading files until it comes to point where the message says: do you wish to load drivers for other storage devices etc so I say yes and load them. Then next thing is we have no mass storage devices and round we go again. Is it me or the machine? TIA Regards Pete. P4 3.4 512 800 Asus P4P800E Deluxe 1024mb pc3200 dual channel 2x 120gb WD1200JB Radeon card Lian Li PC60 Enermax 350w |
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In message Ux7vc.442$S83.150@newsfe4-gui, Pete E
writes Now to business, I have partitioned and formatted my drives ready for install. No problem there now that I have left the jumpers off. Next I connect both drives to a ribbon cable and plug it into the IDE Raid port on the board. OK, the BIOS is set to boot from CD so I put the XP Pro disk in and away we go. First message is that no drives are attached to the fastrak controller and the bios is not installed. My apologies as I've missed the first part of the thread, but have you enabled the RAID controller (and RAID bios) in the main motherboard BIOS settings?? I can't find the original part1, but its not normal to have to partition and format the drives FIRST...... you do this as part of the XP installation process. I must have missed something funny about this board! -- __________________________________________________ Personal email for Gareth Jones can be sent to: 'usenet4gareth' followed by an at symbol followed by 'uk2' followed by a dot followed by 'net' __________________________________________________ |
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Your not the only one who cannot follow the thread.
I think were all lost here! "Gareth Jones" wrote in message ... In message Ux7vc.442$S83.150@newsfe4-gui, Pete E writes Now to business, I have partitioned and formatted my drives ready for install. No problem there now that I have left the jumpers off. Next I connect both drives to a ribbon cable and plug it into the IDE Raid port on the board. OK, the BIOS is set to boot from CD so I put the XP Pro disk in and away we go. First message is that no drives are attached to the fastrak controller and the bios is not installed. My apologies as I've missed the first part of the thread, but have you enabled the RAID controller (and RAID bios) in the main motherboard BIOS settings?? I can't find the original part1, but its not normal to have to partition and format the drives FIRST...... you do this as part of the XP installation process. I must have missed something funny about this board! -- __________________________________________________ Personal email for Gareth Jones can be sent to: 'usenet4gareth' followed by an at symbol followed by 'uk2' followed by a dot followed by 'net' __________________________________________________ |
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In article Ux7vc.442$S83.150@newsfe4-gui, "Pete E"
wrote: Hi again, Firstly thanks to those who have replied to my previous post with helpful info. Now to business, I have partitioned and formatted my drives ready for install. No problem there now that I have left the jumpers off. Next I connect both drives to a ribbon cable and plug it into the IDE Raid port on the board. OK, the BIOS is set to boot from CD so I put the XP Pro disk in and away we go. First message is that no drives are attached to the fastrak controller and the bios is not installed. So we boot from the cd anyhow and the message to load raid drivers PRESS F6 comes up, so I do and it just carries on loading files until it comes to point where the message says: do you wish to load drivers for other storage devices etc so I say yes and load them. Then next thing is we have no mass storage devices and round we go again. Is it me or the machine? TIA Regards Pete. P4 3.4 512 800 Asus P4P800E Deluxe 1024mb pc3200 dual channel 2x 120gb WD1200JB Radeon card Lian Li PC60 Enermax 350w If placing two drives on the ribbon cable that connects to the PDC20378, you would want one drive to be master and the other slave. Or, both drives to be cable select, if using a reasonably new 80wire/40pin ribbon cable. Enable the Promise controller in the BIOS, save and exit the BIOS, and on next post, with a little luck, the Promise BIOS will load and detect the two drives. Pressing a magic key combo at some point during POST, as speced in the manual, should allow you to configure them in the RAID BIOS. Once configured, you can do the rest of the stuff at the OS level. Paul |
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Apologies to those who could not find my first post, it read as follows:
Hi, Is there anyone out there who can supply information for setting up a RAID array from the very beginning? I have tried googling and found that everything starts from having 2 or more drives etc etc. Trouble is that nobody tells you about having 2 drives and whether to set the jumpers for Master, Slave or whatever. Can I partition the drives first, obviously they would be partitioned the same. Specs a Asus P4P800E-deluxe with 2x WD1200JB drives. Unfortunately when I tried to browse the driver/software CD that came with the mobo, I found that it was no good and wouldn't read. I won't be able to replace that for a while now, anyone got a copy they can let me have? TIA Regards Pete. P4 3.4 512 800 Asus P4P800E Deluxe 1024mb pc3200 dual channel 2x 120gb WD1200JB Radeon card Lian Li PC60 Enermax 350w |
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Here is the URL for the manual:
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock...0-e_deluxe.pdf Pete E wrote: Apologies to those who could not find my first post, it read as follows: Hi, Is there anyone out there who can supply information for setting up a RAID array from the very beginning? I have tried googling and found that everything starts from having 2 or more drives etc etc. Trouble is that nobody tells you about having 2 drives and whether to set the jumpers for Master, Slave or whatever. Can I partition the drives first, obviously they would be partitioned the same. Specs a Asus P4P800E-deluxe with 2x WD1200JB drives. Unfortunately when I tried to browse the driver/software CD that came with the mobo, I found that it was no good and wouldn't read. I won't be able to replace that for a while now, anyone got a copy they can let me have? TIA Regards Pete. P4 3.4 512 800 Asus P4P800E Deluxe 1024mb pc3200 dual channel 2x 120gb WD1200JB Radeon card Lian Li PC60 Enermax 350w |
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