K8N-DL: Raid Controller Not Detecting

[Jody]

Hello,
I have a dual opteron system i am building right now for a client, and so
far so good..
All the drivers are installed pardon the Raid Controller which has a big ?
in the device manager, showing no drivers installed.

So, any ideas what is going on with the Raid Controller?

I'd hate to think that i had to load them at install and now have to go back
to square 1.
I've gone to the website and they have the drivers for download, to create a
floppy.
I know the Nvidia driver box came up with a message, but i flew by it.

p.s. It's also having problems detecting the drivers for a sb audigy, but
i'll try it in my system tomorrow to see if it's something else.
The device shows up, just the sb cd says no soundblaster detected.



Sys Details
2X Opteron CPU
4GB Kingston Ram
evga dual 6800 ultra
4x300gb sata hard drives
2x80gb ide drives
2x lg dvdrws (yes)
thermaltake v2000a case
550w p/s or so. forget the model exactly right now.
Xp Pro 64 Bit Edition


Thanks!
jody

 

[Paul]

Hello,
I have a dual opteron system i am building right now for a client, and so
far so good..
All the drivers are installed pardon the Raid Controller which has a big ?
in the device manager, showing no drivers installed.

So, any ideas what is going on with the Raid Controller?

I'd hate to think that i had to load them at install and now have to go back
to square 1.
I've gone to the website and they have the drivers for download, to create a
floppy.
I know the Nvidia driver box came up with a message, but i flew by it.

p.s. It's also having problems detecting the drivers for a sb audigy, but
i'll try it in my system tomorrow to see if it's something else.
The device shows up, just the sb cd says no soundblaster detected.



Sys Details
2X Opteron CPU
4GB Kingston Ram
evga dual 6800 ultra
4x300gb sata hard drives
2x80gb ide drives
2x lg dvdrws (yes)
thermaltake v2000a case
550w p/s or so. forget the model exactly right now.
Xp Pro 64 Bit Edition


Thanks!
jody

http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=9&l2=39&l3=0&model=456&modelmenu=1

Board has a SIL3114 RAID controller and a Nvidia CK8-04. Two
chips means two sets of drivers. If you didn't F6 in something
at install time, then your boot drive must be pretty vanilla.
Installing a RAID driver later, would allow the second device
to be set up for RAID. If your current boot drive is a single
drive, and you wanted it to be RAID, then you'd need a "RAID
migration" plan if you waited this long to set it up. Some RAID
devices have an option to move data from a single drive, to a
RAID configuration. The only question with those, is whether
such a RAID chip needed a RAID driver in the first place, to make
RAID migration possible. If you think about the "chicken versus egg"
problem, for a RAID to work it needs a driver, and it would really
help if there was already a RAID driver being used to run the
single drive (so when you flip it to RAID, there is a driver to
boot with).

If you had specified your current config, in terms of which
drive(s) were boot, which drives were for data only, and what
interface you did the install on, it would be a bit easier to
determine whether you should start all over again, or simply
install a second driver file.

Paul