compatibility mode

[Quaggoth]

I am running a KT7-RAID and I hooked 2 connor 850 drives to it in a RAID-0 mode and win 98SE says they are sing compatibility mode file systems. How do I fix this? I have removed the HPT370 and it's &quot;RCM Device&quot; <---What the hell is an RCM device anyways?, made sure there were no hardware conflicts It started out using IRQ11 along with my sound card but I moved the sound card to a different PCI slot and no that uses IRQ10. I have re formated the array. I have NOT tried breaking the array and then recreating it or seeing if windows will let it use 32 bit mode as 2 single drives. I have NOT hooked either of the drives to the standard IDE controler. Are there drivers for IDE drives? I have never had to install one, but I am open to new things Anyway, If someone out there in Internet Land knows WTF is up, please let me know.

 

[Bozo]

You need to load the drivers for your RAID controller into Windows.

Bozo

 

[Quaggoth]

I have done that. I used the CD, and I tried the disk.

Anything else?

 

[tim0thy]

i suggest doing a search on microsoft's kb as well as the manufacturer's mb's website for this. i'm not too familiar with the motherboard regardless.

 

[Quaggoth]

OK, I tried breaking the Array and just creating a partition on each drive and no dice. I also disabled my Com ports and LPT port to free some IRQ's. No Dice. I have a friend bringing me a 3.4 Gig WD to try. I will update this tomorow morning with the results of that test. I am just going to hook it up as a Master on the Primary channel.

I am wondering if the RAID controler on my board doesn't like old drives. These 2 drives are only capable of PIO mode 4. I am thinking that the drives need to be capable of at least DMA mode x. Anyway, If anyone else has any ideas......

 

[Quaggoth]

BTW Tim0thy....

I searched the &quot;Microsoft we have absolutely NO knowledge base&quot;, and actualy found something. It said to boot 98 using the logged option and check a few things about the loading of the drivers. I did this and all drivers SEEM to be loading fine. ESDI_506.PDR is suposedly the driver that needs to load for IDE devices and that loaded fine, as well as a few HPT3xx.xxx drivers.

Any other ideas?

 

[tim0thy]

hmmm... i don't know much about the board, but i do know that HPT is the software that controls the RAID. You might be correct that it doesn't support older drives,... do you have the MB manuel around that you can verify this?

 

[Netma]

Have you tried going into the bios setting utility by pressing ctrl H. You can then set the drive mode to UDMA 0 thru 5 depending on whether you have IDE, ata33, ata66 or ata100 drives. The Raid controller is compatible with all of them.

If you set the two drives up as a raid 0, they will then appear as one drive with the combined capacity of both drives. Then fdisk and format.