P4P800 Dlx - slow at boot up due to RAID

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P4P800 DLX motherboard with P4 2.6Ghz. Windows XP Pro SP 1.

I have only one hard drive hooked to the RAID. The drive acts as a
regular drive, not as a RAID. At boot up, the screen shows

VIA Tech...RAID BIOS 1.12
Press <TAB> key into user window.
Scan Devices, Please wait.

The computer stops here for about two minutes, but it continues. How
to stop that?
 
P4P800 DLX motherboard with P4 2.6Ghz. Windows XP Pro SP 1.

I have only one hard drive hooked to the RAID. The drive acts as a
regular drive, not as a RAID. At boot up, the screen shows

VIA Tech...RAID BIOS 1.12
Press <TAB> key into user window.
Scan Devices, Please wait.

The computer stops here for about two minutes, but it continues. How
to stop that?
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The only way is to have 2 hard drives hooked up to that RAID controller. If you
haven't got another drive, don't use that controller.
 
The only way is to have 2 hard drives hooked up to that RAID controller. If you
haven't got another drive, don't use that controller.
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I don't agree. Started with one disk on pri-raid and have added 2 disks to
the sec-raid. Boot time and scan is the same...pretty fast.(a few seconds
for scan)
 
Via controller works fine for me as well with only 1 drive.

1- make certain that the drive is set as master.
2- make certain that you have installed the via drivers (Came on CD)
3- do not press TAB (obvious but should be stated)
4- if you enabled raid turn it off, it could be looking for the none
existing 2nd drive)

Locust
 
I don't agree. Started with one disk on pri-raid and have added 2 disks to
the sec-raid. Boot time and scan is the same...pretty fast.(a few seconds
for scan)
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I've got a Samsung 120GB ATA133 running as Pri-Raid, no other drives
and it boots fast and runs faster than when I had it on the intel
controller which only supports ATA100 so don't listen to all you hear.
 
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