I just installed a second promise fasttrak100-TX2
controller in my PC (asus a7n8x-deluxe rev2.0)
Windows is installed on a hard drive connected to primary
IDE on motherboard. I have 4 identical 120 GB drives on
one raid controller and 4 identical 60 GB drives connected
to the other.
Have no problem booting with only one controller in the
system. After booting with both controllers connected,
windows finds the second "mass storage device", installs
the drivers and requires a restart. After restarting it
just hangs at the logo screen. Left it sitting there for
30 minutes just to make sure it was hung.
I can boot into windows by either selecting "last known
good config" or by removing one of the cards from the
system or by disabling the device before the required
reboot.
I have tried moving the cards to all possible slots.
I have tried latest bios for the controllers, even using
different bios rev on each card. Both cards are loaded by
the bios found on the card in higher PCI slot.
I have latest bios for my motherboard as well.
The system works with either of the cards installed, and
the attached raid0 array works fine. Just can't seem to
boot when both cards have driver installed and enabled. I
have even tried different drivers versions for each card.
Tried to change resources in device manager, but all
options are greyed out.
The mb has onboard Silicon Image SATA raid, which I have
disabled by jumper.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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