OS on IDE. I want it on the RAID! How?

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Andrew J. Rozsa

Put the box together like this:

865PEDA Mobo,
1 - IDE drive on secondary IDE channel (80-wire cable CS-jumpered on
the drive plugged in the second IDE socket - black)
1 - Floppy & 1 DVD-RW on primary IDE channel (original 40-lead cable
- red connector to match the red IDE connector on the MoBo)
2 - SATA drives connected to a RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA RAID
Controller

I boot up on the CD to install the OS, see only the IDE drive. Install
Win2KPro on IDE (C:). But,

I would like to install the OS on a RAID. So, with Win2KProSP4 on the
IDE drive, I enable RAID by installing its drivers. Now I "see" scuzzi
1520. Which looks like it's either mirroring C or has also installed
the Win OS.

I really would like the OS to be on the RAID drives (only!) and use
all the IDE drives for data storage.

Can't figure how to "swap" the location of the OS.

Also, any reason why I should swap "primary" and "secondary" IDE
locations?

Please help. The thing works (my first - from "spare" parts) but not
the way I want it.
Best,

Andrew
 
Andrew J. Rozsa said:
Put the box together like this:
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865PEDA Mobo,
1 - IDE drive on secondary IDE channel (80-wire cable CS-jumpered
on the drive plugged in the second IDE socket - black)
1 - Floppy & 1 DVD-RW on primary IDE channel (original 40-lead cable
- red connector to match the red IDE connector on the MoBo)
2 - SATA drives connected to a RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA RAID
Controller
Click to expand...
I boot up on the CD to install the OS, see only the IDE drive.
Install Win2KPro on IDE (C:).
Click to expand...

That's where you are going wrong, you should be loading the
drivers for the RAID very early in the boot of the OS install CD.
Then you should be able to install the OS on the RAID.
But, I would like to install the OS on a RAID. So, with Win2KProSP4
on the IDE drive, I enable RAID by installing its drivers. Now I "see"
scuzzi 1520. Which looks like it's either mirroring C or has also installed
the Win OS.
Click to expand...
I really would like the OS to be on the RAID drives
(only!) and use all the IDE drives for data storage.
Click to expand...
Can't figure how to "swap" the location of the OS.
Click to expand...

You cant do it like that, it has to be installed on the RAID.
Also, any reason why I should swap "primary" and "secondary" IDE locations?
Click to expand...

Not really.
 
Andrew J. Rozsa said:
Put the box together like this:

865PEDA Mobo,
1 - IDE drive on secondary IDE channel (80-wire cable CS-jumpered on
the drive plugged in the second IDE socket - black)
1 - Floppy & 1 DVD-RW on primary IDE channel (original 40-lead cable
- red connector to match the red IDE connector on the MoBo)
2 - SATA drives connected to a RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA RAID
Controller

I boot up on the CD to install the OS, see only the IDE drive. Install
Win2KPro on IDE (C:). But,
Click to expand...

As Rod said, you need to load drivers for the raid controller.
When you boot up from the windows install cd, you should get an option to
press .. what was it? F2?? .. an F-key to load non-microsoft device drivers.
Press it and insert a floppy disk containing the raid drivers.
If you don't have such a floppy , you could probably make one from the
Mobo's installation cd.
Mostly there is some MakeDisk tool for the raid drivers.

Be wary though, if you are going to use striping for speed, if one drive
fails, everything fails!
Don't do it unless you REALLY need the speed...

regards,
Marcel

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:|:|> Put the box together like this: [....]
:|> 2 - SATA drives connected to a RocketRAID 1520 Serial ATA RAID
:|> Controller
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:|> I boot up on the CD to install the OS, see only the IDE drive. Install
:|> Win2KPro on IDE (C:). But,
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:|As Rod said, you need to load drivers for the raid controller.
:|When you boot up from the windows install cd, you should get an option to[....]
:|Mostly there is some MakeDisk tool for the raid drivers.
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[....]

Thank you Marcel, thank you Rod! Earlier, I did try the F6 first, but
I was getting "hpt3xxx.sys caused an unexpected error." So I tried to
work my way around that. As you pointed out, one's gotta do it right.
Learning on the job, so to speak. Checking on Usenet archives found an
article posted about 3 years ago.

So, in case anyone runs into this issue, this is solution for the
error:

Go to Highpoint http://www.highpoint-tech.com/
and d/l the v2.36 drivers. Then unzip the zip file directly to a
floppy so that it retains the exact directory structure. The floppy
'must' have a WinXP/2k directory that contains the HighPoint drivers,
and a file named TXTSETUP.OEM both in the root of the floppy.
WinXP/2000 will not install the drivers if it doesn't find
TXTSETUP.OEM to direct it to the drivers that have to be located in
the WinXP/Win2000 directory on the floppy.

Thank you for prompting me to research and solve the issue properly.

Usenet makes sense with people like you two. Danke!

Best,

Andrew
 
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