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Max 3 and RAID 0

madweazl

madweazl

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I'm getting my ass kicked trying to set up a striped array on the IC7 Max 3 with a pair of 36g Raptors. We are using a parallel drive as well.

I went in to bios and made a change from IDE to RAID which brought up some new options. I think the selection made there was SATA. Rebooted and this allowed me to hit Alt + I (may have been S but I think it was "I". What is the difference here?) and enter the RAID setup software. Setup the array and it showed up correctly (68.Xg drive) in the utility.

Rebooted again and tried to install XP, in the Windows setup utility it only recognizes the parallel drive still. I went back in to bios and tried the combined mode with the same results (tried enhanced with the same results).

The jumpers on the drives are all the way to the right sitting vertically which I believe is 1 and 2 (tried 3 and 4 as well). I'm at a loss now. I was going to try removing the parallel drive next and going from there. The manual isnt very good at explaning what all the options are in bios (or maybe my reading comprehension just sucks). I had a much easier time on my MSI FSI2R (which I absolutely love by the way and I was a faithful long time Abit user).

Would appreciate any hearing any ideas you may have.
 
On your motherboard cd you should find a utility to create a floppy so that windows can load the drivers for the controller. Create the disc and when windows says to hit F6 hit F6 and pop in the floppy. It will do a couple of other things before it actually gets around to loading the drivers. Install should go effortlessly from there. I just went through the same thing with an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe. Well spelled out instructions for the promise controller in the manual not so well spelled out instructions for the native intel controller.
 
yah, you need to provide the drivers for windows during the install process so it will be able to "see" the RAIDed drives, the post above is the answer
 
Had installed the RAID controller driver off the provided floppy all ready. Any other ideas?

Thanks for the link.
 
Not to be an ass or anything but did you use the right ones? I am not sure on the Abit but on the Asus there are two seperate serial raid controllers one care of the intel chipset and one from a soldered on promise controller. They both have different drivers.
 
You're not being an ass. BTW, I am the dude whose computer is in question. Madweazl is helping me to get it up and running. I (we) hit F6 during the new install of windows XP at the proper time and the menu popped up with a few different drivers on it (as you mentioned) I selected the Silicon Image which is (I believe) the one that comes on the board (the disk came with the mobo) I am going to take a look at the link Sparky sent tonight.

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Lian-Li 6077
ABit IC7-MAX3
1 Gig OCZ EL Dual Chan. Plat. PC3200 2.5 3 3 6
Intel 2.4C
2 X WD Raptors 36G
WD 120G
Thermaltake Volcano 10
Radeon 9800 Pro
 
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