Adaptec IDE RAID: No boot devices were found

[Gary]

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

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

(e-mail address removed) (Gary) wrote in @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

 

[SaltPeter]

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"

<snip>

Configure motherboard bios to boot from SCSI adapter.

 

[ivenholt]

-----Original Message-----
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 need to install the raid drivers when you are
installing windows and it asks if you need to load any
third party drivers...make sure you have the right ones
for yous OS. Or you could put a ahrd drive in the boards
IDE slot load windows and the drivers , reset bios then
switch to the card. Also will that system take a 60gb
drive?