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GA-7N400 Pro2 Raid Problem
Upgraded to GA-7N4000 Pro2 . XP repair installation worked OK and boots to
XP Home OK with RAID option in BIOS disabled. BIOS sees 80 Gig HD (ATA 100) on IDE 0, DVD Drive and DVD rewriter on IDE 1. But if I enable RAID HW in BIOS it runs scan but no IDE drives detected on IDE 1 to 4 ! Thus RAID config utility cannot be setup. If ATA option selected under RAID in BIOS get same message.RAID utility and drivers successfully installed and run in XP but again no IDE drives found.Have flashed BIOS to F10 but still have problem. Was going to do clean install but as problem shows in BIOS and before XP loaded did not see how would cure. Great MB otherwise. |
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"TonyF" wrote in message ... Upgraded to GA-7N4000 Pro2 . XP repair installation worked OK and boots to XP Home OK with RAID option in BIOS disabled. BIOS sees 80 Gig HD (ATA 100) on IDE 0, DVD Drive and DVD rewriter on IDE 1. But if I enable RAID HW in BIOS it runs scan but no IDE drives detected on IDE 1 to 4 ! Thus RAID config utility cannot be setup. If ATA option selected under RAID in BIOS get same message.RAID utility and drivers successfully installed and run in XP but again no IDE drives found.Have flashed BIOS to F10 but still have problem. Was going to do clean install but as problem shows in BIOS and before XP loaded did not see how would cure. Great MB otherwise. So let me get this straight. You have been running this board from the IDE Primary and IDE Secondary IDE sockets ( labeled 1 and 2 in the manual ). You then enabled 'Onboard H/W RAID' without any drive(s) plugged into either IDE sockets 3 or 4. At re-boot you had the opportunity to use CTRL-G into the RAID setup or Escape around the RAID setup. You did an escape around the RAID setup but found that the main board BIOS failed to install neither the Primary nor the Secondary IDE ports. Is that what happens? Main board BIOS does not report the RAID ports. That is left to the RAID BIOS(s). If you indeed installed the drivers with XP ( from a floppy ) at install time and you plug in drive(s) the drives will be displayed at boot time and the OS will see them. HG |
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Thanks for reply.
Drives connected to Primary & Secondary,1 & 2, connectors on M/B. Main BIOS sees drives and confirms size etc (ATA-100). RAID set-up can then be run using CTRL-G but it's scan reports "no IDE on 1,2,3or4" and only way forward is to "esc". BIOS then completes boot to XP successfully. RAID drivers were successfully installed with XP set-up. "henny" wrote in message news:tnyQc.214093$IQ4.47696@attbi_s02... "TonyF" wrote in message ... Upgraded to GA-7N4000 Pro2 . XP repair installation worked OK and boots to XP Home OK with RAID option in BIOS disabled. BIOS sees 80 Gig HD (ATA 100) on IDE 0, DVD Drive and DVD rewriter on IDE 1. But if I enable RAID HW in BIOS it runs scan but no IDE drives detected on IDE 1 to 4 ! Thus RAID config utility cannot be setup. If ATA option selected under RAID in BIOS get same message.RAID utility and drivers successfully installed and run in XP but again no IDE drives found.Have flashed BIOS to F10 but still have problem. Was going to do clean install but as problem shows in BIOS and before XP loaded did not see how would cure. Great MB otherwise. So let me get this straight. You have been running this board from the IDE Primary and IDE Secondary IDE sockets ( labeled 1 and 2 in the manual ). You then enabled 'Onboard H/W RAID' without any drive(s) plugged into either IDE sockets 3 or 4. At re-boot you had the opportunity to use CTRL-G into the RAID setup or Escape around the RAID setup. You did an escape around the RAID setup but found that the main board BIOS failed to install neither the Primary nor the Secondary IDE ports. Is that what happens? Main board BIOS does not report the RAID ports. That is left to the RAID BIOS(s). If you indeed installed the drivers with XP ( from a floppy ) at install time and you plug in drive(s) the drives will be displayed at boot time and the OS will see them. HG |
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Thanks for reply.
Drives connected to Primary & Secondary,1 & 2, connectors on M/B. Main BIOS sees drives and confirms size etc (ATA-100). RAID set-up can then be run using CTRL-G but it's scan reports "no IDE on 1,2,3or4" and only way forward is to "esc". BIOS then completes boot to XP successfully. RAID drivers were successfully installed with XP set-up. "henny" wrote in message news:tnyQc.214093$IQ4.47696@attbi_s02... "TonyF" wrote in message ... Upgraded to GA-7N4000 Pro2 . XP repair installation worked OK and boots to XP Home OK with RAID option in BIOS disabled. BIOS sees 80 Gig HD (ATA 100) on IDE 0, DVD Drive and DVD rewriter on IDE 1. But if I enable RAID HW in BIOS it runs scan but no IDE drives detected on IDE 1 to 4 ! Thus RAID config utility cannot be setup. If ATA option selected under RAID in BIOS get same message.RAID utility and drivers successfully installed and run in XP but again no IDE drives found.Have flashed BIOS to F10 but still have problem. Was going to do clean install but as problem shows in BIOS and before XP loaded did not see how would cure. Great MB otherwise. So let me get this straight. You have been running this board from the IDE Primary and IDE Secondary IDE sockets ( labeled 1 and 2 in the manual ). You then enabled 'Onboard H/W RAID' without any drive(s) plugged into either IDE sockets 3 or 4. At re-boot you had the opportunity to use CTRL-G into the RAID setup or Escape around the RAID setup. You did an escape around the RAID setup but found that the main board BIOS failed to install neither the Primary nor the Secondary IDE ports. Is that what happens? Main board BIOS does not report the RAID ports. That is left to the RAID BIOS(s). If you indeed installed the drivers with XP ( from a floppy ) at install time and you plug in drive(s) the drives will be displayed at boot time and the OS will see them. HG |
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"TonyF" wrote in message ... Thanks for reply. Drives connected to Primary & Secondary,1 & 2, connectors on M/B. Main BIOS sees drives and confirms size etc (ATA-100). RAID set-up can then be run using CTRL-G but it's scan reports "no IDE on 1,2,3or4" and only way forward is to "esc". BIOS then completes boot to XP successfully. RAID drivers were successfully installed with XP set-up. Okay, that is what you should see. In its unprogramed state, the GigaRAID controller will accommodate up to 4 drives and treat them as just 2 more EIDE ports (allowing for master and a slave for each socket). It does not seem possible to program this BIOS without the dive(s) installed since the BIOS uses the drive information it finds on the drive to set the configuration parameters. HG "henny" wrote in message news:tnyQc.214093$IQ4.47696@attbi_s02... "TonyF" wrote in message ... Upgraded to GA-7N4000 Pro2 . XP repair installation worked OK and boots to XP Home OK with RAID option in BIOS disabled. BIOS sees 80 Gig HD (ATA 100) on IDE 0, DVD Drive and DVD rewriter on IDE 1. But if I enable RAID HW in BIOS it runs scan but no IDE drives detected on IDE 1 to 4 ! Thus RAID config utility cannot be setup. If ATA option selected under RAID in BIOS get same message.RAID utility and drivers successfully installed and run in XP but again no IDE drives found.Have flashed BIOS to F10 but still have problem. Was going to do clean install but as problem shows in BIOS and before XP loaded did not see how would cure. Great MB otherwise. So let me get this straight. You have been running this board from the IDE Primary and IDE Secondary IDE sockets ( labeled 1 and 2 in the manual ). You then enabled 'Onboard H/W RAID' without any drive(s) plugged into either IDE sockets 3 or 4. At re-boot you had the opportunity to use CTRL-G into the RAID setup or Escape around the RAID setup. You did an escape around the RAID setup but found that the main board BIOS failed to install neither the Primary nor the Secondary IDE ports. Is that what happens? Main board BIOS does not report the RAID ports. That is left to the RAID BIOS(s). If you indeed installed the drivers with XP ( from a floppy ) at install time and you plug in drive(s) the drives will be displayed at boot time and the OS will see them. HG |
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