Problem running CR-Rom off of Raid channel

[coomarlin]

I put my cd-rom on IDE 3 which is raid. I can't get it to show up in windows. What do I have to do? I'm using a Turbo-R. Thanks

 

[dingdongdingdong]

you support not to put your cdroom one 3IDE cos it won't work sometime it does but it will slow down your hardrive performent. try put it to first IDE chanel it support to work fine one first IDE chanel

 

[coomarlin]

Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand your reply. This is really confusing. Here is my situation. I don't care about running a raid array. I just want the extra IDE channels. I have 5 ide devices: Primary Harddrive (ata100), secondary Hard drive (ata33), Internal Zip Drive, CD-Rom, and CD-RW.

The Turbo-r is setup as follows: IDE1 and IDE2 are onboard ATA100 controllers. IDE3 and IDE4 are built in Promise RAID controllers. I have my primary Hardrive on IDE1 by itself. I have my secondary hardrive on IDE2 as master with my cdrom as slave. I'd like to put my CD-RW and my Internal Zip on IDE3 or 4, but when I try that nothing shows up in windows. I'm not sure how this whole RAID thing should be setup. I keep getting a warning message during the RAID Bios bootup saying that I have no RAID arrays defined?

All I want to know is how can I use the 2 RAID channels to operate up to 4 extra IDE devices?

 

[Tired of the Bull]

Ok, First you have a FastTrak RAID controller which will not support the CDROM on IDE 3 or 4. It will only recognize HDD. It also has to add some info to the boot sector of each HDD for it to work on IDE 3 and IDE 4.

Here is what I suggest. Boot your system and install the Promise Drivers that came the Turbo-R. Then Shutdown. Here is where the stupid work begins. Put your Primary Boot HDD on IDE3 and hook up the other items (CDROM, CDRW and ZIP on IDE 1 and 2) (VERY IMPORTANT, DO NOT HOOK UP THE SECOND HDD YET) Turn your system back on. The BIOS will identify everything on IDE 1 and 2 and then the FastTrak will do it's search and say no array was found. Hit CTRL F to setup array. Run the Auto setup, I set it to Perfomance and AV Editing I believe. Save the Array, Since only one HDD is present it will say it's striping. Let the system boot everything should work fine. Then shutdown again and replace your primary HDD with the second HDD. Do the same thing as far as setting up the Array and then save it. Now this drive will not boot so just power down after you exit the FastTrak utility. Now put your primary HDD on IDE 3 and the other on IDE4 and you should be golden. When the system boots this time the FastTrak will show both HDDs and the Primary will have an "*" next to indicating it's bootable.

Welcome to the wonderful world of MSI choosing the FastTrak instead of a standard Promise RAID controller.

 

[coomarlin]

Thanks TOTB. What a hassle That wouldn't cause me to loose any info on my hard drives would it? I don't want to have to reinstall windows again so soon. Thanks.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

I had no ploblem with the data that was aready on the HDD.