Having trouble setting up an ide raid array/installing drivers

[HeXploiT]

I'm trying to set up an ide raid array on a Gigabyte k8ns pro motherboard. I don't have the driver/applications disk so i downloaded the drivers from gigabytes website but i can't get xp to take them. I copied the ITE_RAID\xp\drivers folder to the floppy(or what i think are the drivers) and it doesn't recognize them. The manual is telling me the following,

-Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU.exe

it wants me to run an app that creates the floppy itself but like i said i don't have the cd.

So now what? There must be a way to do this without the cd that came with the mb.

 

[HeXploiT]

Bump. I really need some help here.

 

[rivan]

Is your raid controller showing up in device manager? If so, is it showing as working, or does it have the attention! icon on it?

If it's there, try updating the driver from the device manager control panel. If that fails, uninstall the device and restart your machine, try pointing it to your downloaded drivers. In either case, double or triple check that you downloaded the correct driver.

 

[boomerang]

That file you downloaded is an executable file. You will need to double click it to extract the files. Then, copy those files to your floppy.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: rivan
Is your raid controller showing up in device manager? If so, is it showing as working, or does it have the attention! icon on it?

If it's there, try updating the driver from the device manager control panel. If that fails, uninstall the device and restart your machine, try pointing it to your downloaded drivers. In either case, double or triple check that you downloaded the correct driver.

I haven't installed windows yet. I'm doing a fresh install and i want the OS installed on the striped array.

 

[HeXploiT]

Did that and nothing. Also the floppy images on gigabytes website are for the sata and i need the gigaraid.

 

[rivan]

So, to recap, you're using two PATA drives in a RAID 0 array and trying to get XP on to them. You've downloaded and expanded "driver_raid_ite_8212_win.exe" and the files contained within aren't being recognized by XP? The archive seems to be big enough that they may only fit on a CD (though I'm sure the files you need are small enough to fit on a floppy - just trim away the Windows NT, 2000 and other folders that aren't for XP.

I'm on a Mac here at work so I can't expand "driver_raid_ite_8212_win.exe" to see what's on it, but it should contain drivers for your RAID. The download for that file should be Here.

If you're trying to install Vista, there's a different driver file for XP64.

 

[HeXploiT]

That's exactly what i tired and it doesn't find them. There are only three files in the win2k/xp directory:
ITERAID.CAT, ITERAID.INF, & ITERAID.SYS.

 

[rivan]

The .INF is what XP should be finding - that should be the driver for your GigaRAID (actually the other two, but it's the .INF that the installer will identify with).

Are you certain you're using the GigaRAID? With PATA drives? And are you certain that's the driver it's asking for, not the nVidia or Silicon Image drivers? I'd download all the drivers for all three and have them on the same floooooopy/CD, in the same folder - or better yet, if you're not using those controllers, disable them in the BIOS while you're troubleshooting.

 

[boomerang]

Nevermind

 

[HeXploiT]

I'm using standard ide drives connected to the 3/4 ide connecters. The nVidia or Silicon Image drivers are for sata no? I'll try adding them to the disk tonight and see what happens though.

 

[rivan]

According to the manual, IDEs 3 and 4 are the GigaRAID.

For right now, I'd just suggest verifying the revision number of your controller if possible (it looks like the manual's v.006) and compare to the drivers, redownload and uncompress the drivers, then retry the steps above. I still can't seem to get the GigaRAID manual to download completely, so I'm afriad this is about all the help I'll be able to give until I can get it.

 

[HeXploiT]

I'll try the process over agin. Thanks Rivan for all your time i appreciate it. At worst i'll have the disk in the mail next week. I suppose i can wait a little longer to get it going.