A7N8X-Deluxe Rev 2.0 Raid Boot Question
 

I have a A7N8X Deluxe board rev 2.0. I am trying to boot off of the raid
controller and I can not get the steeings correct. I have 2 - 120 G drives
in raid 0, a Plextor DVD burner on the primary EIDE set as a master, On the
secondary EIDE I have a Plextor CDRW set as master and a Lite-On DVD ROM set
as a slave. The proble I have is I want to add another 80 G hard drive on my
Primary EIDE as a slave for data back up. When I start my system up it will
not book because it sees the new 80 G drive and no operationg system. I have
tried changing the setting from SCSI to HD0. HD1, HD2, and HD3. I have also
disabled all drives in the advanced section for boot up with only boot other
devices enabled again no luck. I am using the Uber bios version 1007.
Without any drive on the secondary posrt of the primary EIDE I have my boot
sequence set to HD0 and it boots fine from the Raid controller, as soon as I
add the new drive it screws up. Any help would be appreciated.

Johnny B wrote:
I have a A7N8X Deluxe board rev 2.0. I am trying to boot off of the raid
controller and I can not get the steeings correct. I have 2 - 120 G drives
in raid 0, a Plextor DVD burner on the primary EIDE set as a master, On
the secondary EIDE I have a Plextor CDRW set as master and a Lite-On DVD
ROM set as a slave. The proble I have is I want to add another 80 G hard
drive on my Primary EIDE as a slave for data back up. When I start my
system up it will not book because it sees the new 80 G drive and no
operationg system. I have tried changing the setting from SCSI to HD0.
HD1, HD2, and HD3. I have also disabled all drives in the advanced
section for boot up with only boot other devices enabled again no luck. I
am using the Uber bios version 1007. Without any drive on the secondary
posrt of the primary EIDE I have my boot sequence set to HD0 and it boots
fine from the Raid controller, as soon as I add the new drive it screws
up. Any help would be appreciated.

Very strange... in the boot order, SCSI is the Sata Controller so if that is
above IDE-whatever then it should boot from the RAID partition.

Ben
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I need to make a correction to my problem. Originally I had a 20 G drive as
a slave in the primary EIDE drive. Without this drive my system does no
boot, regardless if I have the new 80 G drive or if the primary slave drive
is empty. According to the Disk Management option in Computer Management my
C: drive (the 20 G) is designated system with an active partion while my
raid array is designated G: boot with an active partion. I hope this helps.
The operating system is Win XP Pro with SP1 installed.


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Johnny B wrote:
I have a A7N8X Deluxe board rev 2.0. I am trying to boot off of the raid
controller and I can not get the steeings correct. I have 2 - 120 G
drives
in raid 0, a Plextor DVD burner on the primary EIDE set as a master, On
the secondary EIDE I have a Plextor CDRW set as master and a Lite-On DVD
ROM set as a slave. The proble I have is I want to add another 80 G hard
drive on my Primary EIDE as a slave for data back up. When I start my
system up it will not book because it sees the new 80 G drive and no
operationg system. I have tried changing the setting from SCSI to HD0.
HD1, HD2, and HD3. I have also disabled all drives in the advanced
section for boot up with only boot other devices enabled again no luck.
I
am using the Uber bios version 1007. Without any drive on the secondary
posrt of the primary EIDE I have my boot sequence set to HD0 and it
boots
fine from the Raid controller, as soon as I add the new drive it screws
up. Any help would be appreciated.

Very strange... in the boot order, SCSI is the Sata Controller so if that
is
above IDE-whatever then it should boot from the RAID partition.

Ben
--
A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html
Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups.
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...