RAID error

[turk188]

I have tried two RAID setups, one Highpoint on the board
and a Promise card added. Under both the hard drives
attached show up as SCSI which they are not. I'm using XP
pro 1a. Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one. The card
worked fine and accessed the drives no problem in the old
version of pro on my other computer. I'm tried every type
of RAID mode. The RAID software finds them, but windows
makes them unusable. They show under the hardware but are
unaccessable (not part of My Computer.) Any ideas?

 

[Len]

Has nothing to do with XP. Drives connected to a third party controller are
almost always detected as SCSI by the system BIOS way before windows comes
into play.

If you try to swap out an RAID array from on type of controller to another
they virtually never work correctly. Each controller uses its own geometry
to setup the array. If you did reain the same controller (ie a PCI card
that you swapped out from the original machine) and the array is not the
boot device, you may simply need to initialize the drive in disk management.

FWIW,
Len

 

[Guest]

OK let me try this again. I have 4 hard drives in the
computer connected to a RAID card. I have one raid
connection on the motherboard and one I added to test
problem. Under both connections all four hard drives are
unaccessable. After POST all four hard drives are
identified by RAID system. Note Primary Hard drive
connected to IDE is removable. I have Linux installed on
another hard drive, under that system all hard drives show
up fine. The problem is in XP. The old computer I have used
the RAID card and the first release of windows XP and
worked fine. So how can a RAID connection as part of a
motherboard (integrated) be mistaken for what it is? The
controles for it are in the BIOS. So once again does anyone
have any idea on how to force XP to identify the drives as
what they are and provide access to them?
Thanks