New to Raid

[Guest]

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hi group,

What good resources are there for how to set up raid? Just got A7V from
friend with the Promise raid controller.

 

[Guest]

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You need the book that came with the motherboard. Promise won't even talk to
you about on-board raid controllers and from my experience, Asus won't talk
to you about anything. It's all in the booklet and it's pretty easy to
understand
"DaveJr" <davesbrain@qwest.net> wrote in message
news:wcT3e.6$D53.99@news.uswest.net...
> hi group,
>
> What good resources are there for how to set up raid? Just got A7V from
> friend with the Promise raid controller.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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All I have is the is the 'pdf' manual I downloaded from asus. Specs and
jumper settup and such.

> You need the book that came with the motherboard. Promise won't even talk
to
> you about on-board raid controllers and from my experience, Asus won't
talk
> to you about anything. It's all in the booklet and it's pretty easy to
> understand

 

[Paul]

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In article <wcT3e.6$D53.99@news.uswest.net>, "DaveJr"
<davesbrain@qwest.net> wrote:

> hi group,
>
> What good resources are there for how to set up raid? Just got A7V from
> friend with the Promise raid controller.

The A7V PDF manual I have here, doesn't have a section on the RAID.

This link suggests the A7V133 motherboard uses the same Promise chip.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020724132637/http://www.lumberjacker.de/Downloads/downloads.html

in which case, download this manual and see section 5.4 . At
least this will give you some hints on how to use it.

http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt133a/a7v133/a7v133-105.pdf

You can see some differences here, between Fasttrak Lite RAID and
normal Fasttrak RAID, as seen on a separate Promise controller card.

http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=SBf28.1042%24gW4.958395%40news1.rdc1.mi.home.com

The Lumberjacker hacked BIOS are archived here.

http://www.storage-raid-forum.de/download/?url=&cid=2

To see what a Promise manual looks like, here is a sample.
Chapter 4 shows the BIOS setup. I don't know if this manual
exactly corresponds to the chip on your board, but it is the
best I can find now. There may have been more stuff on the
Promise site which has been moved or removed.

ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak/Manual/FastTrak.zip

You might also want to do a Google search and see whether this
chip was reliable, and what versions of RAID BIOS worked best
with it. I don't know if there were any problems or not, but
since it is your data, you may want to look into it before
putting valuable data on there.

HTH,
Paul

 

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"DaveJr" <davesbrain@qwest.net> writes:
> hi group,
> What good resources are there for how to set up raid? Just got A7V from
> friend with the Promise raid controller.

Speaking from memory of my experience with the P4T533:

* Copy the Promise MBFastTrack Lite 133 drivers from the ASUS CD to a
floppy disk.

* Connect up a pair of drives to the onboard raid connectors and set
the onboard jumper for raid.

* Boot the system and hit <ctrl-F> to enter the FastTrack RAID
configuration utility and configure either RAID 0 or RAID 1.

* I had a pair of Maxtor ULTRA ATA 133 drives, so I booted into the
MaxBlast CD and partitioned and formatted the drive for NTFS.

* I then re-booted into the WinXP setup disk with the drivers disk I
made above in the floppy drive.

* Hit F6 to tell WinXP to load the additional drivers from the floppy.

* Hit S to select exactly which adapter driver to load.

* Finished the install and set the BIOS to boot from the "SCSI/ATA"
adapter.

I can't imagine that it's too much different for other onboard Promise
RAID controllers.

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[Guest]

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This is an A7V rev.1.02 board. And I have no mobo driver cd. I bought it
from a friend with an Athlon 950 and 512ram for a whopping $20.

> Speaking from memory of my experience with the P4T533:
>
> * Copy the Promise MBFastTrack Lite 133 drivers from the ASUS CD to a
> floppy disk.
>
> * Connect up a pair of drives to the onboard raid connectors and set
> the onboard jumper for raid.
>
> * Boot the system and hit <ctrl-F> to enter the FastTrack RAID
> configuration utility and configure either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
>
> * I had a pair of Maxtor ULTRA ATA 133 drives, so I booted into the
> MaxBlast CD and partitioned and formatted the drive for NTFS.
>
> * I then re-booted into the WinXP setup disk with the drivers disk I
> made above in the floppy drive.
>
> * Hit F6 to tell WinXP to load the additional drivers from the floppy.
>
> * Hit S to select exactly which adapter driver to load.
>
> * Finished the install and set the BIOS to boot from the "SCSI/ATA"
> adapter.
>
> I can't imagine that it's too much different for other onboard Promise
> RAID controllers.
>
> --
> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
> Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142
> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
>

 

[Guest]

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Well, then download the drivers from ASUS's website. AFAICT, whatever
is on the ASUS CD can be found on their website... latest versions, too!

"DaveJr" <davesbrain@qwest.net> writes:
> This is an A7V rev.1.02 board. And I have no mobo driver cd. I bought it
> from a friend with an Athlon 950 and 512ram for a whopping $20.
>
>> Speaking from memory of my experience with the P4T533:
>>
>> * Copy the Promise MBFastTrack Lite 133 drivers from the ASUS CD to a
>> floppy disk.
>>
>> * Connect up a pair of drives to the onboard raid connectors and set
>> the onboard jumper for raid.
>>
>> * Boot the system and hit <ctrl-F> to enter the FastTrack RAID
>> configuration utility and configure either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
>>
>> * I had a pair of Maxtor ULTRA ATA 133 drives, so I booted into the
>> MaxBlast CD and partitioned and formatted the drive for NTFS.
>>
>> * I then re-booted into the WinXP setup disk with the drivers disk I
>> made above in the floppy drive.
>>
>> * Hit F6 to tell WinXP to load the additional drivers from the floppy.
>>
>> * Hit S to select exactly which adapter driver to load.
>>
>> * Finished the install and set the BIOS to boot from the "SCSI/ATA"
>> adapter.
>>
>> I can't imagine that it's too much different for other onboard Promise
>> RAID controllers.
>>
>> --
>> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
>> Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142
>> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
>> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
>>
>
>

--
Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B