Re: Booting from RAID striped

Ah. The plain P4SCT doesn't include the Marvell SATA controller.

If you've built a RAID 0 in the BIOS settings, and installed the RAID drivers (C20 on the downloadable manual), I don't know why it didn't work. When you were installing the drivers, did you get the screen listed in step J (where you get to choose the "Adaptec Embedded Host Serial ATA Raid Controller" from a list of devices)?


"Terry" <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1189479288.494223.207180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have no clue what SATA controler I am using.
How do I find that out?
The mobo only has two SATA ports.
I have one drive plugged into each port.

I am afraid I have read the manual. I just don't understand much of
what it is saying.

I know what a hard drive is and I know what the mobo is, but that is
about it.

The manual says make a boot disk using Intel Hance Rapids Driver
(Adaptec)
That is what I have done.


On Sep 10, 10:20 pm, "Bob Knowlden" <nk...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which SATA controller are you using?

Your mainboard includes two separate SATA controllers: the native Intel 975X
one, and a third-party one from adaptec. At a guess, you're installing the
RAID drivers for the wrong controller.

If you've lost your manual, it is available for download:

http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/E7210/MNL-0719.pdf

(The manual isn't clearly written, unfortunately.)

HTH.

Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Terry" <kilow...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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>I have made an XP drivers disk for my P4SCT mobo. I have changed my
> bios to RAID. I have made an array RAID 0 and made it bootable. I
> have 2 SATA 160G WD hard drives.

> When I run XP SP2 setup disk I press F6 and load the driver disk from
> floppy.

> XP asks where to install itself. I get two choices
> C:Partition1 (unknown) 160
> unpartitioned 160

> Is this what I should see? I would expect only have one 320 drive.

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