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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
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I'm trying to install XP on a Fujitsu Scenic P300, using a PCI SATA Raid card. I've got the right drivers on floppy, press F6, load the drivers, choose partition etc, XP starts to install. Gets as far as the first reboot - then it can't see the drive anymore ! Anyone seen this behaviour before ? Thanks ! |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
If the motherboard BIOS detects the drive, then it should be able to
boot from the drive. On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:32:18 -0000, wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install XP on a Fujitsu Scenic P300, using a PCI SATA Raid card. I've got the right drivers on floppy, press F6, load the drivers, choose partition etc, XP starts to install. Gets as far as the first reboot - then it can't see the drive anymore ! Anyone seen this behaviour before ? Thanks ! |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
Does the SATA Raid board have ROM (in other words, is it accessible through
INT 13)? "Andy" wrote in message ... If the motherboard BIOS detects the drive, then it should be able to boot from the drive. On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:32:18 -0000, wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install XP on a Fujitsu Scenic P300, using a PCI SATA Raid card. I've got the right drivers on floppy, press F6, load the drivers, choose partition etc, XP starts to install. Gets as far as the first reboot - then it can't see the drive anymore ! Anyone seen this behaviour before ? Thanks ! |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
You need to go into the RAID card's setup and build an array and initialize
it prior to even thinking about loading any OS on it. Rita Hmmm - not so sure about that. If that was truly the case, surely I wouldn't have been able to install windows on the single drive attached to the card ?. Once Windows had the right driver, it was happy to allow me to partition, format & install - it was only on the reboot that it failed to see the drive. The array I am planning on creating is Raid 1, but I only have one drive at present, so at this stage, there is no Raid array - the volume is a single HDD attached to a raid card, BUT it's set to 'Passthrough' in the card's bios. I know that it will work in single drive mode as I've tested it on another PC - but that was testing booting off either drive in an already configured raid 1 setup - and I installed XP on that one *after* I'd created the mirrored array, so I've never actually tried installing XP on a single drive on this card - only booting off a single drive (i.e. a broken mirror) once it was all setup. What it's doing in more detail is this:- From scratch, I boot the pc, the raid card bios messages appear, showing a single drive detected, then stating the pnp bios is loaded, then it boots from the XP CD, I hit F6, load the card drivers from floppy, choose where to install windows etc, and off it goes, copying all the files etc. When it gets to the first reboot, instead of getting the raid card bios messages, I get the PCs bios reporting that it's detected TWO identical drives, then it sits there at that screen for about five minutes, then eventually moves onto the raid card bios messages, showing the single drive detected and that the pnp bios is installed - holds here for five minutes more then gives a PC bios messages about HDD 0 failed - twice. If you cold-boot it, you get the raid card bios messages up, then straight to 'OS not found' - no PC bios messages about two drives etc, or delays. So, maybe you are right... does anyone else know if it's possible to install an OS onto a *single* drive attached to a raid card (even if the card is set to 'passthough' mode for that drive) - or whether this is just impossible and I really need to have the mirrored array established before anything will behave ? ...and if so, how does it then manage to work if you pull a drive afterwards ? |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
The issue is to make BIOS to see the drive the same way as Windows driver
sees it. If they don't, it won't start on the first boot. wrote in message oups.com... You need to go into the RAID card's setup and build an array and initialize it prior to even thinking about loading any OS on it. Rita Hmmm - not so sure about that. If that was truly the case, surely I wouldn't have been able to install windows on the single drive attached to the card ?. Once Windows had the right driver, it was happy to allow me to partition, format & install - it was only on the reboot that it failed to see the drive. The array I am planning on creating is Raid 1, but I only have one drive at present, so at this stage, there is no Raid array - the volume is a single HDD attached to a raid card, BUT it's set to 'Passthrough' in the card's bios. I know that it will work in single drive mode as I've tested it on another PC - but that was testing booting off either drive in an already configured raid 1 setup - and I installed XP on that one *after* I'd created the mirrored array, so I've never actually tried installing XP on a single drive on this card - only booting off a single drive (i.e. a broken mirror) once it was all setup. What it's doing in more detail is this:- From scratch, I boot the pc, the raid card bios messages appear, showing a single drive detected, then stating the pnp bios is loaded, then it boots from the XP CD, I hit F6, load the card drivers from floppy, choose where to install windows etc, and off it goes, copying all the files etc. When it gets to the first reboot, instead of getting the raid card bios messages, I get the PCs bios reporting that it's detected TWO identical drives, then it sits there at that screen for about five minutes, then eventually moves onto the raid card bios messages, showing the single drive detected and that the pnp bios is installed - holds here for five minutes more then gives a PC bios messages about HDD 0 failed - twice. If you cold-boot it, you get the raid card bios messages up, then straight to 'OS not found' - no PC bios messages about two drives etc, or delays. So, maybe you are right... does anyone else know if it's possible to install an OS onto a *single* drive attached to a raid card (even if the card is set to 'passthough' mode for that drive) - or whether this is just impossible and I really need to have the mirrored array established before anything will behave ? ...and if so, how does it then manage to work if you pull a drive afterwards ? |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
Well, after some experimentation, I have established that the problem
is something to do with the Bios of the Fujitsu PC. I took the same drives, raid card & driver floppy and successfully installed XP on another PC. I have also done this on a single drive connected to the raid card. When they go in the Fujitsu, all the problems start. The BIOS on the PC is the very latest, so I don't think downgrading is going to make any difference. The only hope I have is of playing about with the BOS settings - but I think I'll just give up at this point ! |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
"Alexander Grigoriev" wrote in message ink.net
Does the SATA Raid board have ROM (in other words, is it accessible through INT 13)? Bwahahahah, rotflol. Priceless. "Andy" wrote in message ... If the motherboard BIOS detects the drive, then it should be able to boot from the drive. On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:32:18 -0000, wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install XP on a Fujitsu Scenic P300, using a PCI SATA Raid card. I've got the right drivers on floppy, press F6, load the drivers, choose partition etc, XP starts to install. Gets as far as the first reboot - then it can't see the drive anymore ! Anyone seen this behaviour before ? Thanks ! |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I'm trying to install XP on a Fujitsu Scenic P300, using a PCI SATA Raid card. I've got the right drivers on floppy, press F6, load the drivers, choose partition etc, XP starts to install. Gets as far as the first reboot - then it can't see the drive anymore ! Anyone seen this behaviour before ? Thanks ! Maybe I'm wrong but a real RAID system does not need drivers to install the OS. The OS should see it as one physical hard drive. The only thing you need RAID drivers for is to talk to some sort of monitor software which talks to the RAID controller and alerts you when a drive has a problem, and usually this is installed after the OS is up and running. This is from many years of working with RAID on enterprise-class windows servers which may not be the same with XP, but I can't think of why it shouldn't be the same. |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
wrote in message ups.com... Well, after some experimentation, much snipped but I think I'll just give up at this point ! Doh! I hate when that happens! |
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