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Ed Kummel · 11-07-2007, 04:13 PM

OK, so a friend of mine wants to get into RAID and purchased a cheapo PCI raid card.
This raid card comes with the VIA 6410 chipset and IDE cables....nothing else...no drivers, no software.

Now, I use RAID controllers at work all the time (I work for a major international ISP/Datacenter) and while the raid controllers we use are all high-end cards, I expected that even low end cards would act similarly.

I installed the card, Windows 2003 server found the new hardware and installed the drivers automatically...but I can't figure out how to get to the RAID setup menu.

I am used to a control key sequence during BIOS boot in order to get to the RAID configuration software on the RAID card (the cards we use at work all use CTRL-H)

I can find no hook to the bootup for the RAID card...

I can not find any windows software for this card either...anybody out there have experience with this chipset and how to get the bios to hook into the raid during the boot?
Thanks

Ed
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11-07-2007, 04:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ed Kummel Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 4 OS: All Windows all the time	VIA Raid Card and how to access it OK, so a friend of mine wants to get into RAID and purchased a cheapo PCI raid card. This raid card comes with the VIA 6410 chipset and IDE cables....nothing else...no drivers, no software. Now, I use RAID controllers at work all the time (I work for a major international ISP/Datacenter) and while the raid controllers we use are all high-end cards, I expected that even low end cards would act similarly. I installed the card, Windows 2003 server found the new hardware and installed the drivers automatically...but I can't figure out how to get to the RAID setup menu. I am used to a control key sequence during BIOS boot in order to get to the RAID configuration software on the RAID card (the cards we use at work all use CTRL-H) I can find no hook to the bootup for the RAID card... I can not find any windows software for this card either...anybody out there have experience with this chipset and how to get the bios to hook into the raid during the boot? Thanks Ed web/gadget guru