2006-08-28 05:32:12 · 4 answers · asked by arnoldporche 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
what's the step-by-step procedure?
i have 2 identical maxtor 500gb sata hard drive. i plug both drives to my motherboard's sata controller. my motherboard is ASUS P5RD1-VM. the bios does not detect my sata drive, but detects my IDE drives. but after the iniatl boot up, i see a screen where i can hit "CTRL+A" to go to RAID menu and it sees both my sata drive. i was able to make RAID 0 and combine them to 1000gb. but when it boots up to windows, it did not detect it. what could be possibly wrong?
2006-08-28 05:36:34 · update #1
You need to do two things to set up the raid. Configure the raid in the Bios and install the Uli Chipset drivers for the Raid Controller.
Sounds like you have the Bios setup done. Download ULi Chipset Driver version 1.0.0.3 from the other driver section on Asus website for your motherboard. Put the drivers on a 1.44mb floppy and install with Windows initial installation by pressing F6 when it asks you if you have additional drivers to install. The download from Asus is 7.63 mb, but I think the drivers are in there.
2006-08-28 08:09:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Similar issue the other day with a MSI Neo V Platimum board and SATA, bios saw them, Windows didn't and it was the drivers not being installed with the regular Mother Board driver setup disk, on first load. Some mother board makers are not assuming that users want to load straight to SATA drives, so they think we are going to Windows first when installing SATA as an add-on and then installing the drivers, but the drivers we need install after the chipset drivers, and sometimes after the Video drivers have been selected as well. Then you might have the option available to select Raid Drivers.
Look on your Board Disk for your Raid Driver and load them, then Windows should see everything.
2006-08-31 09:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Nedan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be an option when your SATA drives are being detected that will allow you to enter SATA configuration. You can set it there for hardware RAID (which I recommend). You can also get software to set up software RAID, but it's not nearly as good as hardware RAID.
2006-08-28 12:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_sata_install_raid_boot.shtml
this explains all.
2006-08-28 12:35:42 · answer #4 · answered by Paultech 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋