New to RAID help requested

[JTWadsworth]

My first time installing RAID arrays so please be gentle

Hardware is:

ASUS P5AD2 Premium
WD Raptor 74GB SATA x 4

Software:
WinXP

I want to set up RAID1 with 2 drives for the OS and RAID0 with 2
drives for the data files, etc.

I have set the BIOS correctly I believe and created the two RAID
arrays with the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v
4.5.0.6448 which loads after the BIOS finishes POST.

When I try to install WinXP, it cannot see the drives. When I instead
try to use Norton Ghost 9.0 to recover saved images to install, it
cannot see the drives either.

How can I get this to work?

Forgive my ignorance please.

jtw
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[RBM]

Did you install the raid controller drivers off the Asus disk?

 

[JTWadsworth]

Did you install the raid controller drivers off the Asus disk?

Do you mean making a floppy and F6 during the XP CD bootup to load
them? Yes I did. Still no go.


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[RonK]

Make sure the file on the floppy is not just the .zip file.

 

[Paul Stewart]

I have just set up this motherboard and it took me a while to figure out the
drivers on the disk do not work, the windows setup kept geting errors when
accessing the floppy, downloaded updated drivers of the ASUS site and it
worked.

 

[MrGrumpy]

An observation: A raid Mirror for the o/s, raid striping for data? - you are
aware that raid O has no data redundancy, lose a disk and you lose all?

 

[JTWadsworth]

An observation: A raid Mirror for the o/s, raid striping for data? - you are
aware that raid O has no data redundancy, lose a disk and you lose all?

Yes but my data files are backed up regularly and easily retrieved.
My problem with crashes is usually getting the OS and its support
files back exactly the way I want them. It's just a personal
preference thing.

jtw
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[JTWadsworth]

I have just set up this motherboard and it took me a while to figure out the
drivers on the disk do not work, the windows setup kept geting errors when
accessing the floppy, downloaded updated drivers of the ASUS site and it
worked.

Thanks ,Paul. I will download the updated drivers. When I used the
one that shipped with my machine, it seems to load just fine, but
Windows (and the Ghost 9.0 recover CD) cannot seem to see the disk
arrays. Interestingly, Ghost 8.0 dos boot disk can see them.

jtw
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[JTWadsworth]

I have just set up this motherboard and it took me a while to figure out the
drivers on the disk do not work, the windows setup kept geting errors when
accessing the floppy, downloaded updated drivers of the ASUS site and it
worked.

Which version did you have success with? I just downloaded version
1719

jtw

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[Paul Stewart]

Which version did you have success with? I just downloaded version
1719

Intel(R) Application Accelerator RAID Edition V4.5.0.6515 for Windows
2000/XP/2003.

I'm sure its this one, the version you mention above are the drivers for the
IDE raid setup I think, not looked at the manual so not entirely sure.

 

[JTWadsworth]

Intel(R) Application Accelerator RAID Edition V4.5.0.6515 for Windows
2000/XP/2003.

I'm sure its this one, the version you mention above are the drivers for the
IDE raid setup I think, not looked at the manual so not entirely sure.

Ok, I am on the same page as you now. My IAA version ROM lists
4.5.0.6448. On the ASUS website all I was able to find was a
4.1.0.xxx version. Could you pass the link to the version you list?

It's interesting that my ASUS disk that came with my computer does not
have the F6 disk creation utility for the IAA, only the IDE version.
The IAA file is a 15MB file that is a Windows executable so I cannot
run it on my backup machine that is a different MOBO, etc. Perhaps it
has an F6 disk creation option but I will never know heh.

jtw
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[JTWadsworth]

Intel(R) Application Accelerator RAID Edition V4.5.0.6515 for Windows
2000/XP/2003.

I'm sure its this one, the version you mention above are the drivers for the
IDE raid setup I think, not looked at the manual so not entirely sure.

This was the driver I was trying to use:

IT8212 ATA RAID Controller driver V1.7.1.9 and Application V1.7.1.10
for Windows 2000/XP(WHQL)/2003.

.. I ended up finding the driver you list in the section for the
P5AD2-E Premium mobo instead of what I have as the P5AD2 Premium.
Think that is ok?

jtw

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