support for ATA 133

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ATA 133 support exist since Windows 98. You would just need to install the
motherboard drivers so as to get the built-in IDE ATA 133 driver install or
install the correct driver if it is an add-on ATA 133 card.

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Does WindowsXP support ATA-133 controller and hard disk?
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I have been using it for some time. The driver I am using
is not "digitally signed" and my recent attempt to update
it to one that was did not work.

The existing driver works but it has not been trouble-
free. I am mirroring two disks with it. The issues have
been:

- periodically on reboot there is a complaint from the
Silicon Image software that there is an "incomplete RAID
set". This is easy enough to fix but worrying.

- the above problem happens after downloading say
security upgrades from Microsoft

I would not advise against but nor am I a wildly happy!
 
StJohn Kettle said:
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- periodically on reboot there is a complaint from the
Silicon Image software that there is an "incomplete RAID
set". This is easy enough to fix but worrying.
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I have a very large problem whereby I am getting this error message at
every boot, from what was a working and stable RAID set until
recently. I am not sure what has caused the problem, it may have been
a power failure. The RAID BIOS does not get installed because the RAID
set is incomplete (it also says "Invalid RAID" at first in the bootup
sequence).

Consequently the RAID drive does not appear in Windows, nor do the
individual physical drives in the Medley utility, or the Windows
Device Manager.

I should also mention that this is a four-disk striped and mirrored
set, with all the RAID controller's defaults accepted at create time.
It is 4x120 Gig Hitachi (ie. IBM) Deskstar drives in RAID 0+1 mode,
making a single 240-Gig volume.

I am looking at a HUGE bill (>8000usd) for data recovery if I can not
get this RAID set to be recognised again and I am a struggling artist
and alas not some huge corporate with endless money to throw at the
problem :-( I made the stupid mistake of thinking I could trust all
my data in one place while I rationalised other drives to back it up
to. I have lost years of work, and the fact I only have myself to
blame doesn't make it any easier.

Presumably if I "Delete RAID set" in the RAID BIOS, my data goes with
it?

Any help will be very gratefully received.

regards,
Bruce
 
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