Q-TEC 320R RAID Card problems

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Trying to build a file server based on the following

Pentium III 600B
1GB PC133
40GB system drive
Radeon video card
Windows 2000 Pro

I installed the Q-TEC 320R RAID controller and three 120GB drives with the
idea to use JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

When the machine POST's the card detects the drives and allows setting of
JBOD so when 2000 boots I installed the drivers for the card.

Following the reboot the three new drives are nowhere to be seen in either
Device Manager or Disk Administrator.

Tried installing some GUI software, rebooted again and this reports that the
driver is not installed and still no sign of the disks.

Q-TEC support suggested downloading the lastest drivers but still no joy as
they are the same as my disk. They also sent a Silicon Image sofware package
that is of no use cause the card is based on an Aralion ARS106S2 chip.

Aralion's own drivers make no difference so I'm stuck.

Any suggestions?
 
After the JBOD is set up, the system sees them as one new drive. You have
to do a FDISK and FORMAT on that new drive.
While I don't know any thing about Win 2000, XP will find the FDISK unit
and allow you to format it . XP will format that size as NTFS only.

JPS
 
JPS,

Thanks for the response but Win 2K cannot see the drives in any shape or
form. Neither does Win XP because I treid that too!

On another build for a different project, I used a CMD chip based RAID card,
as soon as I installed the drivers, the system detected the disks, showed
them in Device Manager and allowed me to format them straight away. That's
what I expected when using this. I'm quite happy to use NTFS with it's more
advanced capabilities since I will be using permissions over network shares.

Cheers
 
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