"El Kapitano" wrote in message ...
Update.

I have retrieved my old GXP120 40gig dual raid 0 array on the promise
onboard controllerso I now have a working PC again.

Tha sata pair I left in place for kicks and has been seen and installed by
XP, strange thing is the icon isn't a drive icon but after formatting it is
working but 3 Mb slower in transfers than the promise which is
highlydissapointing.

Maybe the UDMA mode of the sata drive is not set at high number.
I may try a dual boot install and then remove the OS from the promise pata
array and boot from the SATA see if things improve (any ideas as to how to
go about this?).

Andy


Well if you boot again with the winxp cd and choose to install windows
xp on the sata drives wont work? Even if you manage to install it,
then by removing completely the first operating system(e.g formatting
the promise raid array) the system most likely wont boot cause the
main boot sector and boot.ini file would be on the promise array.

Anyway, what is the revision of your motherboard and the exact models
of the maxtor drives, their firmware bios version and the date of
production? You can see this info on the sataraid utility by silicon
image.