Recent content by atmo

At the urging of the WD tech, I have RMA'ed the drives. The card is going back as well... No word from HighPoint support, and I cannot afford to wait any longer.

WD support thinks that the highpoint card has somehow changed the firmware on the drives. Sound feasible?

Will do. It does in fact have its own BIOS and it is up to date. I know they are functional, because they still work if I put the Highpoint card back in there. The only problem with this is when I remove the drive from the highpoint card and use the onboard SATA ports, I cannot see the drives...

Tried that as well. Trying the low-level format tomorrow. Didn't have much success earlier today seeing the drives with HDDGuru's software.

Tried what you suggested already and the drives can be seen by the onboard controller, (Tyan S2925) however I cannot create a RAID since the drives act as if they have no space available. When the machine POSTs, all I get on these drives are failure errors. If I reinstall the Highpoint card...

So, long story short, I order a HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 for this server I am building. Many driver issues with Server 2003 R2, so I decided that I am not going to use this card. Now for the problem... The drives that I had configured in RAID5 (4 WD3200AAKS's) are not recognized by the BIOS...