(E-Mail Removed) (Gary) wrote in news:fd035a88.0402031829.15747717
@posting.google.com:
> SYSTEM:
> Dell Dimension XPS 670MHz P3 BIOS Ver A08
>
> PCI:
> Ver 2.2 33 MHz five slots
>
> DRIVES:
> Identical WD 60GB EIDE
> Both drives jumpered to Master
>
> BIOS SETUP:
> Integrated Primary IDE Controller Disabled
> Boot from (1) floppy (2) Adaptec ATA RAID (3) CDROM
>
> DRIVERS:
> Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A Drivers Installed at O/S install.
>
> Every attempt to boot from RAID results in "No boot devices were found
> - System halted"
>
> Adaptec BIOS Array Config Utility indicates a properly configured and
> healthy array.
>
> If I boot to the W2K CD and use Repair, the drives are recognized, and
> all the diagnostics (e.g. MAP) indicate a healthy array.
>
> I've installed the controller card in each of the five PCI slots; each
> attempt failed.
>
> On a tangent: I don't see a setting for continuing to boot and run
> with a failed drive. A mirror array that won't boot to one drive isn't
> of any use in our configuration.
>
> I've successfully installed a bunch of the Promise RAID cards without
> any problem. I'm many hours into this project and about ready to bail
> out. This problem seems like it's being caused by the driver being
> unavailable to the OS at boot.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
You did not say how you got to this point. As you say you already have
Windows installed and drivers installed. The error message you are getting
"No boot devices were found - System halted" is coming from BIOS and has
nothing to do with Windows. I would see if you can boot from a Windows boot
floppy. However I don't know if that will help you figure out why you can't
boot from hard drive. I would check if you have active partition.
Leonard Severt
Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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