RAID Setup

T.P.A.C. · 01-17-2005, 02:51 PM

Ok, Im a newb,
Bought a new computer, that wasn't set up for RAID as requested, followed the helpline advice, and now have an expensive door wedge.

System is
Intel P4 3.6mhz
Asus P5AD2 Deluxe
1024 Mb Ram
2 SATA 400GB h/d with 8 mb cache
Geforce 6800 GT PCI express,
lots of other bits n bobs.

Anyway set it all up as RAID 0, and formatted prior to windows, when windows first installs it says "now re-starting windows", it all re-boots and i get a read e ror message, complete with missing 'r', obviously i and the support desk are doing something wrong, but what.

Can any of you bright people out there give me a suggestion, or do i keep it as an expensive door wedge?

cheers,

epvaldo · 01-17-2005, 05:36 PM

Which SATA controller are your hard drives connected to?

T.P.A.C. · 01-18-2005, 02:02 AM

Initially they were on SATA 1 and 2, i then tried SATA RAID 1 and 2, this allowed the drives to be recognised, apparently, i need to use the intel RAID controller, which i used to create th array, but there is another program using CTRL L which does not start when they are connected to the RAID, so i have to connect to normal SATA this allows the use of CTRL F, but shows no RAID setup.

01-17-2005, 02:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
T.P.A.C. Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: win xp	RAID Setup Ok, Im a newb, Bought a new computer, that wasn't set up for RAID as requested, followed the helpline advice, and now have an expensive door wedge. System is Intel P4 3.6mhz Asus P5AD2 Deluxe 1024 Mb Ram 2 SATA 400GB h/d with 8 mb cache Geforce 6800 GT PCI express, lots of other bits n bobs. Anyway set it all up as RAID 0, and formatted prior to windows, when windows first installs it says "now re-starting windows", it all re-boots and i get a read e ror message, complete with missing 'r', obviously i and the support desk are doing something wrong, but what. Can any of you bright people out there give me a suggestion, or do i keep it as an expensive door wedge? cheers,

01-17-2005, 05:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
epvaldo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro	Raid 0 Which SATA controller are your hard drives connected to?

01-18-2005, 02:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
T.P.A.C. Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: win xp	Initially they were on SATA 1 and 2, i then tried SATA RAID 1 and 2, this allowed the drives to be recognised, apparently, i need to use the intel RAID controller, which i used to create th array, but there is another program using CTRL L which does not start when they are connected to the RAID, so i have to connect to normal SATA this allows the use of CTRL F, but shows no RAID setup.