On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:24:05 -0400, you wrote:
>At 01:13 PM 4/2/2006, Hugh Gundersen typed:
>>No way to do that on this MOBO. Hitting F6 just gives me a screen
>>asking for a driver disk in A
>>then it asks for xxxxxtext.oem which I haven't got so mission impossible!
>
>With the Gigabyte Mombo you should've gotten a CD that has a bootdrv
>folder & all you have to do is run the run.bat file which gives you
>menu of which kind of boot drv floppy that you want to make.
Tried that but bat file didn't run -- should I have done that in a CMD window ?
>
>Mine gave me the following menu
>
>1)IAA_RAID
>2)GIGARAID
>3)SiI
>4)SiIRAID
>5)SCSI
>6)Promise 20276 ATA
>7)Promise 20276 RAID
>8)Promise 20265 ATA
>9)Promise 20265 ATA(XP)
>A)Promise 20265 RAID
>B)Promise 20265 RAID(XP)
>C)VIA 8237 Series ATA
>0)exit
>
>and with out this boot drv diskette you should NOT be able to
>partition or format anything. I had to run this on another machine
>for the floppy creation & once I clicked F6, loaded the driver I had
>no problems at all partitioning not only a RAID 0 for a pair of WD
>74g Raptors but also enabled the SATA driver for a solo WD 250g then
>Winders installed flawlessly
I had to move the SATA MOBO connection from SATA-0 to the RAID-0 additional
connector but after
cloning and repartitioning with Acronis - fantastic bit of software! have you
tried it? the thing is
runnig Ok but what an arse!
Will try to move it back to SATA-0 later - I'll tell you what
happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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