Adaptec 4805SAS help needed

[naro]

hi guys, i need some help with my Adaptec 4805SAS controller card.

I've already got Windows XP installed and i added the Adaptec 4805SAS card to the system. I installed the drivers in windows.

Afterwhich, i initialised an HP OEM Seagate Savvio drive and created an array and formatted it.

Then, i reboot and after the verifying DMI pool data screen, it just hangs there with a black screen.

can anyone help!!! thanks

 

[naro]

okay, i've flashed the Adaptec card to the lastest firmware. I've also updated my motherboard (AOpen i915Ga-HFS) to the last firmware. But it keeps failing to boot into windows. It keeps hanging with a black screen just before the Windows XP screen with the scrolling bars.

I tried something rather dangerous by booting into windows without the SAS hdd and plug it in when i'm in Windows. This only works when I have created an array in the Adaptec BIOS and then remove the hdd before booting up. In the Adaptec Storage Manager, it'll be detected as a logical drive.

If i do not create an array in the Adaptec BIOS, the SAS drive will only appear as a hotspare in Adaptec Storage Manager

 

[unhappy_mage]

Is the boot order set properly in BIOS? You should have the disk with Windows set to boot before any external cards or the SAS disk if it appears there.

 

[naro]

yup.. i have the boot order setup properly. Even if the boot order is not in sequence, it will seek out the next hdd with a boot loader..

it seems like the driver that i've installed in Windows is not working and its causing the Windows not to load.