I'm having problems after installing Raid Controller. Can you help?

[Riprorin]

After installing a Raid Controller and hooking my hard drive to it, the primary and secondary IDE controllers have been disabled. How do I re-enable them?

Also what's the preferred set up based on my components:

DVD Drive
CDRW Drive
Zip drive
2 hard drives

I would like to use one of the drives as a back-up drive.

Thanks.

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Hopefully you should be able to enable/disable the primary/secondary IDE channels in the BIOS. If not then you're probably looking at a RAID board driver issue, which could be non-trivial. Having checked the BIOS, could you check the windows device manager (if you can boot) to see if primary/secondary IDE controllers are present?

More details about your RAID controller would be appreciated also.

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Riprorin]

Thanks for the help.

The primary and secondary IDE channels appear in device manager.

Error message is "This device cannot work properly until you restart your computer (Code 14). Restarting the computer does not solve the problem.

How do I make sure the primary and secondary channels are enabled in the BIOS?

When I boot up the two devices connected to the primary IDE channel show up.

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Somewhere in the BIOS (i.e. onboard devices), within one of the menus, there is an option to disable/enable primary/secondary IDE channels. However, since windows correctly detects them, I guess that they are enabled.

Without further information (make, model, driver version) of the RAID card you're using its difficult to diagnose this problem. At the moment it seems like there's either a problem with the drivers or a problem that occured whilst installing the drivers. First thing to do is to try uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers. If this doesn't work, please post the information specified above.

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Riprorin]

Primary and secondary controllers are enabled in the BIOS.

The controller is a Silicon Image Raid Ultra ATA 133 contoller.

Controller

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: Fencer128
Hi,

Somewhere in the BIOS (i.e. onboard devices), within one of the menus, there is an option to disable/enable primary/secondary IDE channels. However, since windows correctly detects them, I guess that they are enabled.

Without further information (make, model, driver version) of the RAID card you're using its difficult to diagnose this problem. At the moment it seems like there's either a problem with the drivers or a problem that occured whilst installing the drivers. First thing to do is to try uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers. If this doesn't work, please post the information specified above.

Cheers,

Andy

I can't access my CD drives so I can't install the drivers. Should I install a CD drive on the raid card?

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

To answer your other question, a suggested configuration for your devices is:

Pri Master: DVD ROM
Pri Slave: ZIP Drive
Sec Master: CDRW

The two HD's should go on the primary and secondary RAID channels

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Riprorin]

Since I installed the Raid card, I haven't been able to find any configurations that allow me to see the other peripherals.

Why?

 

[Riprorin]

Got it figured out. Thanks.