For RAID 0 or 1 on the Promise controller you should get a ctrl F prompt during
bootup if you have the Promise raid controller enabled under
BIOS Setup | Advanced tab | Onboard Devices Configuration | OnBoard Promise
Controller [Enabled] | Operating Mode [RAID]
Not to be confused with the Intel chipset RAID, which only does RAID 0, under
BIOS Setup | MAIN tab | IDE Configuration [Enhanced Mode] | Enhanced Mode
Support On [S_ATA] | Configure S-ATA as RAID [YES]
To answer your question, in theory you should be able to add a Promise RAID 1
array after the installation of Windows XP, provided you setup your array under
the Promise BIOS setup at the ctrl F prompt.
However you may run into issues using the array as your system drive.
The key here is setting up the array at the ctrl F prompt that you are currently
not seeing.
After loading the Promise driver in XP, you should see in Device Manager | SCSI
and RAID controllers | Win XP Promise FastTrak 378 ? Controller
The preferred installation sequence is
Enable Promise Controller in BIOS
Setup the array at the ctrl F prompt
Press F6 when prompted at the very beginning of XP setup, to tell XP that you
have a driver diskette
(Use the make diskette utility in the Promise folder on the ASUS CD)
XP will use the driver on the diskette when it is setting up the hardware
During XP setup, XP will prompt you to partition and format the array
The first time I tried this XP wanted to put it's boot.ini file on an SATA drive
I have connected to the Intel chipset SATA controller. I had to change the drive
order under the BIOS Setup | Boot tab | Hard Disk Drives.
Please let us know how it goes.
Later ?
(e-mail address removed) (Jim Inacker) wrote in message
Did you enable Promise RAID in BIOS?
Thanks for your interest. Client is out of town for a couple of
weeks. I am sure that I have the BIOS setup correctly - but will
check again. I have conflicting info - but the consensis seems to be
that a RAID 1 should be set-up BEFORE the installation of XP. Like I
said all I get is the BIOS identifing the drive, but no CTRL-F prompt
- will check the setup and get back to you all. Thanks again!