eathdo

Hello all,
i recently built a new system using a asus m2n delux, as it only had one ide controlled i also installed a fasttrak100 card and attached my 3 ide hard drives to it, i set up the system, installed vista and then teh card drivers, i can access the cards bios and have set up a span aray for all three drives ( giving me about 440gb ( 2 x 160, 1 x 120) when i boot into vista i cant sem to see any drives. is there something i ma doing wrong, do i need to activate sometihing or is it just imposible. i also tried the 2 160s in mirror also to no avail.

thx in advance hope i have given enough info. also hope its in the right forum!!!!!!!

justpassingby

Never used Vista, but this should still be doable : control pannel => system => hardware => device manager. Check your ide controller card is listed there with no warnings messages.

Also, in disk managements (righ-click on "my computer" => manage. No idea if that shortcut works in Vista), do you see your drives ? Maybe you still need to partition and format them, then assign them volume letters ?

eathdo

its shows up as storage controlers > winNt fasttrak 100 tx2/tx4 controler. no flags

justpassingby

ok, then do that other operation I added in my previous message : go to disk management.

(I should lose that bad habit of always editing my messages)

eathdo

sadfuly the disks arnt showing up, i have tried the array in both mirro and stripe and still nothign showing up in either my computer or in disk managemnt. yet i have the option to boot from the card and it seems to find somehting, well i get an ntldr error, stupid thing, just wish they put more ide controlers on the newer board, dont have th cash to fork out on new drives as well :(

linderman

check the website of the controller card manufacturer & get drivers for vista!


did the controller come with a software utility for building the array ???

eathdo

there is a raid build utility on promise's website called PAM which im trying to dlbut my net + promise's website = nightmare,but i should be able to d/l it from somewhere else. do you tkank thats what i need?

ps please excuse the text my k/board is useless the keys stick.

linderman

I would be looking for vista drivers for the controller card first


then the raid utility for building the array

eathdo

right i finaly managed to do it, heres how it goes. cancell all the vista trying to find driver stuff. go to device manager and update the driver. say you will do it from disk, locate to the server 2003 drivers for the card. restart. is will say something about a driver, do the same thing again. restart. and all should work. only taken me 2 weeks to get it sorted. thx to all here and the whole web for help......

linderman

I am happy to hear you got your problem sorted, that was kinda of a long way around the barn, hopefully the controller card manufacturer will include better instructions for device installation in the future.


well done