SATA problem

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john G.

have installed two SATA 80 gig HDD's in the striped
configuration, partitioned and set them as primary and
active. Cloned the original IDE drive to the SATA drive
set. Drivers also installed. The mainboard is an ASUS
A7N8X deluxe which has the Sil 3112A RAID chipset on board.

The jumpers are set correctly and according to the Asus
Users Manual no BIOS configuration is necessary. My
problem is that when booting to the original drive it can
see the RAID set and I can access it from the IDE drive,
however, when I attempt to boot from the RAID set
windowsXP starts to boot but stops at the splash screen
and goes no further.

I have tried to install a fresh copy of Windows XP on the
Raid set but it tells me that it can't find any drives and
the install fails.

Please help, what am I missing, besides brain cells, I
can't seem to find any help on the Maxtor or Asus web
sites.

TIA

John
 
John

Stop reposting the same problem again and again, this is the third post
identical you've made, and work through the issue with those who are trying
to help you.

Pete
 
Pete,

I have posted because I was unable to open your replies, I
was directed to a web page instead. THis was the only way
I could get an answer. However since this bothers you I
will not post anything to the group again, might have been
better if you had asked why? I posted more than once.

john
 
I think it's probably correct to assume that you've now followed the,
correct, advice given by others to your first post... which you managed to
respond to (and ignore)... as well as the advice I posted in response to
your second post, and that you have resolved your problem then.

Pete
 
Two thoughts:

1. When you copied the image of the IDE drive (with XP on
it) to the RAID set, did you perform a "repair"
installation of XP bfore you tried to boot the PC into
XP? If not, that may be a necessary step, since XP is
sometimes touchy about hardware changes.

2. As for the dirct installtion pf XP on the RAID set, (a)
does the BIOS checks show a single RAID array containing
two disks and that it is healthy or working correctly?
(b) Does the BIOS check show an asterisk on the left side
of the RAID array? This signifies that the disk (RAID
set) is active, or bootable. If not, try runing the
recovery console or FDISK and making the RAID array
active. (3) During the attempted direct installation of
XP on the RAID set did you remember to hit F6 when the
option flashed across the screen early in the
installation, and then provide the RAID drivers on a
floppy? A CD won't work; they must be on a floppy. My
ASUS P4S8X documentation said to use the CD, but the
updated drivers came with a readme.txt file that said
floppy only. (4) Do you have the latest SATA drivers?
 
Bob

All your advice is correct...

The OP has, in fact, been told this on three separate ocassions from
different sources and each time has chosen to either ignore or complain
about the advice.

Now he appears to be absenting himself from the threads he started.

I would imagine that is because he, finally, got around to trying the
suggestions given and discovered that the advice was correct - as yours is.

Cheers
Pete
 
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