A7N8X Deluxe: Possible to have IDE raid 0 AND serial ATA raid 0 at same time? How??

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question: Possible to have IDE raid 0 AND serial ATA raid 0 at
same time? Cant seem to get it to work, even after trying all
different BIOS options. WinXP keeps looking to the IDE RAID (Promise
TX2000 and two maxtors) for the OS, and it's not there, it's on the
raptors...so can they coexist? Two raid arrays, one IDE and the other
serial ATA? Tried changing the settings in the Promise Fastrak setup,
as well as system BIOS, no change.

Thanks
 
John said:
question: Possible to have IDE raid 0 AND serial ATA raid 0 at
same time? Cant seem to get it to work, even after trying all
different BIOS options. WinXP keeps looking to the IDE RAID (Promise
TX2000 and two maxtors) for the OS, and it's not there, it's on the
raptors...so can they coexist? Two raid arrays, one IDE and the other
serial ATA? Tried changing the settings in the Promise Fastrak setup,
as well as system BIOS, no change.

Thanks
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You can do it, but you'll have to boot off of the Promise, I think.

The onboard SATA controller is the "SCSI Boot" device, but so is the Promise
controller... which one that is booted off of, I'm not sure, but I am under
the impression that when you set SCSI to be the first boot device, it will
pick the onboard SATA controller, unless there is another IDE/ATA/SCSI
bootable controller fitted to the board (such as your Promise controller)

Ben
 
Yes Ben, you are exactly right - confirmed this over the weekend with a
promise card.
Dom
 
You can do it, but you'll have to boot off of the Promise, I think.

The onboard SATA controller is the "SCSI Boot" device, but so is the Promise
controller... which one that is booted off of, I'm not sure, but I am under
the impression that when you set SCSI to be the first boot device, it will
pick the onboard SATA controller, unless there is another IDE/ATA/SCSI
bootable controller fitted to the board (such as your Promise controller)

Ben
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I'm still not understanding completely. So then would I need to first
install/setup my Promise PCI-IDE RAID 0 to boot (C: drive) and then
install/setup the serial ATA RAID?
 
John said:
I'm still not understanding completely. So then would I need to first
install/setup my Promise PCI-IDE RAID 0 to boot (C: drive) and then
install/setup the serial ATA RAID?
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You can do it in whatever order you like, but you will have to boot from a
drive on the Promise Controller (I wonder what happens if there are no
active partitions here - I don't think it checks the onboard SATA)

What this means is that if you install Windows on a drive connected to the
SATA controller, then set up the Promise, you will be no longer able to boot
Windows. You will need to set up a boot loader of some sort on a drive
connected to the Promise and point it to the partition on the drive where
Windows is (on the SATA controller).

I'm accustomed to Grub and LILO as I use Linux and both of these can do what
you want, but you would need a Linux install (even one on a CD which you can
boot from, such as a Gentoo Live CD) in order to configure it. I suspect
there are plenty of other boot loaders out there which can be configured
either from Windows or from themselves.

Sorry, that got more compliocated than it should have - just install Windows
after you have a drive connected to the Promise and life will be much
easier.

Ben
 
You can do it in whatever order you like, but you will have to boot from a
drive on the Promise Controller (I wonder what happens if there are no
active partitions here - I don't think it checks the onboard SATA)

What this means is that if you install Windows on a drive connected to the
SATA controller, then set up the Promise, you will be no longer able to boot
Windows. You will need to set up a boot loader of some sort on a drive
connected to the Promise and point it to the partition on the drive where
Windows is (on the SATA controller).

I'm accustomed to Grub and LILO as I use Linux and both of these can do what
you want, but you would need a Linux install (even one on a CD which you can
boot from, such as a Gentoo Live CD) in order to configure it. I suspect
there are plenty of other boot loaders out there which can be configured
either from Windows or from themselves.

Sorry, that got more compliocated than it should have - just install Windows
after you have a drive connected to the Promise and life will be much
easier.

Ben
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Ok, so how about if I decide to install WindowsXP (and therefore boot
from) the Promise Raid controller, since it seems it may be faster
anyhow...then what would I do first, install Windows on the promise
and then just install the Serial ATA raid?
 
John said:
Ok, so how about if I decide to install WindowsXP (and therefore boot
from) the Promise Raid controller, since it seems it may be faster
anyhow...then what would I do first, install Windows on the promise
and then just install the Serial ATA raid?
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I don't think you'd see much difference in performance between the two.

Enable the SATA Controller (Jumper on the motherboard). Install the Promise
card into the machine. Plug in your hard drives. Insert XP install CD.
Follow the on screen prompts :-P

If you have all your hardware in the machine when you install Windows, you
can't go far wrong. Probably.

Ben
 
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