Another HD with RAID

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Craig

I have a RAID 0, and want to pull files off my old hard drives. When I hook
them up using the old ribbon cable, it either hangs up after the BIOS check,
or considers it the MASTER (and boots up with the Windows from my old
drive), even when the jumpers are set to SLAVE.

The new hard drives are S-ATA, and have what looks like (they may be for
something else) a four pin setup for MASTER/SLAVE. When I looked at the
Seagate site, it said it didn't need jumpers, and gave no help. So how can I
get Windows to see it as just "another" hard drive? Also, do I need to
change the name of the old MASTER drive from "C" to something else (It will
still boot up)?

Thanks
Craig

P.S. Ok, this is where I am now. I wrote Seagate, and they couldn't or
wouldn't help me on this. Someone told me to hook the jumpers on the old
drive to CS, and hook them up to the IDE cable for my CD-ROM. I've hooked
the drive up after boot up hoping XP would see it AFTER it had booted up.
Nothing seems to work. It seems that a RAID array isn't seen the same as a
regular hard drive. So, when I boot up with any other hard drive installed
on IDE, it always tries to boot up from that drive, no matter what I do in
the BIOS. Please help.
 
Craig,
Dependent on your motherboard, you could try to go into the BIOS and set
your boot devices as floppy/cd-rom/scsi and also, try setting the 'Boot
other devices' as disabled. This should cause your system to look only to
the serial ATA drives as your boot drive and Windows *should* see the other
drives after that. You will most likely need to restart once windows has
the drives configured. Your Windows should then be able to access the drive
as the next available letter (when I did the same, my extra drive was
accessed as 'L' since I have a 160 Gb RAID-0 (drives C through G), DVD-RW
(drive H), cd-rw (drive K), and 2 cd emulators (drives I and J)). If you
intend on keeping the extra drive in there, you can always use Drive Manager
to rearrange the drive letters as you want though you might want to keep the
cd-rom the same since it may mess with install paths and where some programs
such as installed games, look to find needed files.

HTH
 
here's what I'm hearing:

you have a new machine w/ a RAID 0 setup via the two new Serial ATA
drives. It works just fine.

when you hook up the old drive to a Parrallel ATA cable and reboot, the
machine tries to boot from the old drive.

Correct?

Solution: go into the bios and tell it that the first (and maybe the
only if you want) BOOT drive is the Serial ATA RAID 0 Array. If your board
has two of these (intel southbridge ICH5R and a Promise or Silicon-image
chip), be sure to choose the correct one.
 
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