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404 controller problem...need help

ATC9001

Senior member
Ok I'm usign win XP pro, RocketRAID 404 controller and 4 80gb 8mb maxtor HDD's
I want to setup RAID 5. Problem:
Whenever I create an array in the BIOS (whether it be 0, 1, 5, 0+1 or JBOD) windows install, and windows XP will not see it. They will see 4 independant disks (even after a RAID 5 zero build in the BIOS). The only way I can get an array to work is to use the software that came with it and create the array in windows, then reboot and it sees the appropriate drive (i.e. a 0+1 is seen as 160gb, a 4 disk RAID 0 is 320, etc). The problem is the software only offers RAID 0,1,0+1,JBOD, It does NOT offer RAID 5.

Any have this controller and able to get the BIOS to create an array? I'm using 3.02 the latest, as well as the latest XP drivers and admin software.

Please help me out.
 
but the BIOS does offer RAID 5! I've built a RAID 5 in the BIOS and highpoint says it supports RAID 5....
 
You are correct. Highpoint says the new bios supports raid 5. There is also a warning at the download site that states the following:

Warning

Make sure the BIOS, Driver, and RAID Administrator (GUI) software revisions match - we do not recommend installing different combinations of BIOS/Driver/Software revisions.

This may shed some light..?
 
woot!

got it to work...yeah it was a driver issue, windows wasn't updating the driver when I told it to. Regardless of what I did it would always revert back to old ones...oh well I did a windows install and it saw a 240gb drive so i'm pumped (4 80gb in raid 5 is 240).

Thanks for the help 🙂
 
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