Rick DeNatale wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:47:53 -0500, Aaron S. Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, it works quite well. :) I would certainly recommend it from theI'd love for you or anyone else tell me how to use it.
sheer perspective of separating out the drives onto individual channels.
I'll do my best. :)
I decided to buy the drives, and the controller after confirming that
I could return an unopened drive without a restocking fee.
Even better optimization (with proper verification)!
Let's assume for a moment, that you don't have any other drives on on-board controllers. You're going to need to configure your BIOS to boot to the IDE raid controller, which depending on your BIOS may show up in various ways. In an older BIOS, you may have to choose a SCSI boot option, which will attempt to boot to the controller. The controller will boot which ever drive is attached as the lowest device - unless of course you RAID them up, in which case it will boot to the array itself. If you want to do a regular install, go ahead and setup the CDROM as the first boot option, and go from there. When you reboot to the drives the first time, you'll need to drop back and address which drive the controller is going to boot to, and you'll have a bit more luck.I installed the card and one drive. When I boot, it asks me to hit F3 to get into the RAID setup utility. This only seems to allow creating raid sets. If I escape out of this (or ignore the prompt to hit F3 it simply shows that the drive is in the 1st RAID set and the system never gets past that in the boot sequence.
According to the specs RAID is supposed to be optional for this
controller, but I've got no clue how to get around this.
Just to briefly touch the other side of the equation, if one of these drives is on the on-board controller, make that your boot drive, and go on with life. You'll be in good shape that way, too.
If you're still having trouble, feel free to post again with more details and I'll see if I can steer you in the right direction.
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