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thanks for the reply. i got it working....
i did have the drives connected to the Promise card, but it never
would be recognized or load....
once i connected to the Intel, it came right up....
using the 250gb's mirrored for my games, shn's and unmentionables.
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:59:05 -0500, "Michael S."
<mspurgeon5@comcast.net> wrote:
>Bob--first--do you really want to use the Promise controller since it is
>PCI-based and the Intel controller is part of the South Bridge controller.
>Also, I wonder if they are connected to the right SATA connectors since
>there are four on that motherboard--two controlled by the Intel South Bridge
>and two controlled by the Promise controller. FWIW, I would recommend
>disabling the Promise controller in the BIOS and using the Intel controller.
>Since you are setting up a RAID configuration, I assume that you plan to
>load WinXP in the partition--if not and I misunderstood, kindly ignore the
>following. IF you are wanting to RAID these two drives, you will need to go
>into the BIOS at bootup and make sure that these things are enabled:
>OnBoard IDE Operate Mode to [Enhanced Mode]
>Enhanced Mode Support ON to [S-ATA]
>Configure S-ATA as RAID to [Yes]
>Serial ATA Bootrom to [Enabled]
>
>Prior to the above, you should have either downloaded the latest or used the
>copy that was on the support CD that came with your motherboard and create a
>floppy diskette of the Intel Application Accelerator RAID edition--it is
>located on that CD in a folder labeled "IAA" or download the file called
>"iaa35r.zip" from the Asus Web site. It is a self extracting zip file that
>will place these four files on the floppy disk: iastor.inf, iastor.sys,
>iastor.cat and txtsetup.oem
>
>Before attempting to load XP onto the RAID partition, get into the RAID BIOS
>by doing a CTRL-I (eye) during the POST and make the following changes:
>--Create RAID Volume (in main menu)
>--Set the stripe size in Create Array menu (64KB is all purpose)
>--Set the RAID level to 0 or 1 in the Create Array menu, whichever you
>intend to use
>--Highlight Create Volume and press enter and press "Y" to confirm when
>asked to do so.
>
>When booting to the XP CD to set up XP, it will briefly at the very bottom
>of the screen ask you to press "S" to install additional device or SCSI
>driver (forget exact wording) and you will need to do that quickly and have
>the floppy diskette inserted. Later XP will ask about which SCSI adaptor
>and in that list will probably only be "Intel 82801ER Serial RAID
>controller" which should be selected and press enter. The next screen
>should confirm that the Intel RAID controller was selected and press Enter
>again to continue.
>
>When finished, you will need to go back into the BIOS and make sure in the
>boot order that the RAID volume is selected as the boot drive that you
>loaded XP on.
>
>Hope this helps--good luck
>
>MikeSp
>------------------------------
>
>"BobMarley" <brianh*REMOVEFOREMAIL*@conterra.com> wrote in message
>news:u123h054ibsjjpndfi3bene1c0ch6sk1i0@4ax.com...
>> I've got 2 80gb WD drives on my Primary IDE controller, and a Cd
>> burner on the secondary.
>>
>> i bought 2 WD 250GB sata drives, but can't get the OS to see them.. i
>> also don't see them recognized in the BIOS.
>> what am i missing?
>>
>> i went into chipset, and enabled the onboard Promise card, set it to
>> RAID mode
>>
>> went into IDE setup, enabled Enhanced on PATA and SATA, and set SATA
>> to RAID.
>>
>> drives are connected, 1 to SATA RAID1 and the other to SATA RAID2
>> connector.
>>
>> what am i missing?
>>
>>
>
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