HighPoint Controller Help

[SteelCityFan]

I have the TH7-II Raid mobo. I added 2 drives to the HighPoint Primary controller. When the PC boots, it says that there are no drives there (Screen after BIOS screen). However, Windows sees the drives and they work. Is this normal? Does the HP controller only show drives in a Raid config or something?

 

[goog]

Drives should show up in the BIOS. Have you installed the Highpoint drivers? Manually detected the drives in the BIOS? Also if you want to boot from one of these drives you'd need to set ATA100RAID in the boot sequence.
What you don't need to do is go into the RAID BIOS screen.

 

[SteelCityFan]

Not sure I want to try that again.

The ones available for DL are for HP 366, mine is 370. Windows says the Microsoft Driver is the newest and best.

I installed the HP drivers off of the CD, rebooted, and I lost the drives in Windows (not in BIOS either). So, I rebooted a couple times.. no change. I used WinXP's rollback feature to roll back the drivers to the MS version I had before. I rebooted, and it froze at the "Scanning ......" for drives screen (did not show any drive info). It did this about 4 times in a row before finally booting up.

I think I will leave well enough alone on this unless someone else has any ideas.

The HP Bios version on Abit's website is from 2000, I would think mine bought a couple months ago would have the latest BIOS.

 

[mchammer187]

step 1 update to the latest bios on abit's website

step 2 d/l the latest highpoint raid drivers from abit website

step 3 place it on a disk

step 4 after POST it will tell you to press control-H to set the "Bios Setting Utility" which sets up the raid array
set it up (ie add drives choose striping size set one of them to boot)


step 5 change the boot sequence to add ATA RAID 100

step 6 install windows and when it asks you if you want to install a SCSI / RAID controller hit F6

step 7 load the highpoint drivers from the disk u created earlier

step 8 when it asks you to install to a drive it should show you the raid Array (ie disk 2x the size of the single HD)

step 9 install windows as normal


if you did not do this you are not in raid just using the disks as IDE drives in a non raid config

i did this just yesterday so i know what im talking about
2x WD 1200JB's in RAID 0

i just did

step 8 install windows as normal

 

[SteelCityFan]

mchammer187


You misunderstood what I am trying to fix.

I am not trying to Raid anything... just use the HP controller for a CDR and a CDROM on the primary channel. The windows XP built in driver allows me to see them when I go into My Computer. I do not however see them listed on the HP Post screen during bootup.

I tried to fix this by using the HP drivers on Abit's webpage. When I did, I lost the drives within Windows, and still could not see them on the post screens. I used Windows XP's rollback feature to get back to the MS driver - rebooted, and it froze at the HP post screen. I had to kill power to the PC and reset from there.

Which brings me to another question... will I be able to use the drives on the HP controller within Linux? I never thought of that... I also have my CDROM on the HP controller and wonder if I can even boot to a CD.

 

[SteelCityFan]

No, it will not let me boot from "CDROM" in the bios if the CDROM is on the HP controller. I also tried setting the boot device to "ATA100RAID" or whatever it is listed as, and it did not boot from CD. ...maybe that is because it is not seeing anything attached to those in the post screens...

I'm pretty confused on this... not sure why it is doing what it is doing... letting me use them in Windows XP, but only with the XP drivers, and also not showing up when the HP screen posts in the BIOS.

Anyone???

 

[SteelCityFan]

Bump...

More people have got to be using this just to add additional drives...

 

[SteelCityFan]

I found the problem. For the full story go to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit.

Basically, the new drivers/bios remove ATAPI support. Windows drivers still have them... my devices are working fine. I settled on this config....

IDE1 - Master - WD800JB
IDE1 - Slave - IBM 20GB (ATA66)

IDE2 - Master - 52X CDROM
IDE2 - Slave - Zip 100

HPT IDE3 Master - CD-R.

the two hard drives will not be talking to each other since one will be Linux ext3, so I don't see any problems running it this way.

In the future, I am going to raid 2 800JB's moving them to the HPT controller, and replacing both CD drives with a CDRW (32W/40R)