Hi, Tom.
Your message is not very clear to me. (I have an EPoX 8K3A+ and recently
moved my 2 IDE drives from the "normal" IDE connectors to the HP 372
connectors. But I continue to use my SCSI HD/Adaptec host adapter as the
boot device. I have never used or tried to use RAID.)
Which HD is your boot device? One of these drives? It makes a big
difference whether you are booting from one of these drives, or just using
them as secondary drives.
To use one of these drives as secondary, just install or update the drivers
from Device Manager as you would for any other device.
But, to be able to BOOT WinXP from a drive using the HPT controller, you
will need to reinstall WinXP, pressing the F6 key early in the Setup process
to install the drivers from the floppy diskette.
Maybe someone else knows a shortcut, but users of "exotic" HDs/controllers
have been running into this problem ever since Win2K was introduced in 2/00.
Many new, fast drives were introduced just after Win2K, too late for their
drivers to be included on the Win2K CD-ROM. The WinXP CD-ROM includes many
more drivers, but still not for the HPT - so these must be installed from
floppy during Setup. :>(
HighPoint has some rather detailed instructions in the Readme.txt file that
is included in their driver download package. Here's just one paragraph
copy'n'pasted from the Readme file dated 10/18/02, from the download file
driver_v234_370_372.zip:
* Install HPT370/370A/372 controller on an existing Windows XP system
When installing HPT370/370A/372 controller on an existing Windows XP
system,
Windows XP will try to install its HPT370 driver first; this may cause
system hang when you are using new features the driver don't support.
To avoid this problem, you shall update the driver first with no drives
attached to HPT370/370A/372 controller, shutdown the system, attach the
drives, then start the system again.
I hope some of this helps you get your system humming, Tom.
RC
