I have an N40L that Ive been running in IDE mode for the past 6 months and would like to set it up for RAID 1 mirroring. I have the 250GB drive that comes with the server as the OS drive (primary master), a WD Green 750GB drive (secondary master) that is temporarily holding my data and two Samsung F3 1 TB drives installed and ready on secondary master and secondary slave channels.
Last night I changed the BIOS setting from IDE to RAID, hit Ctrl-F on bootup, setup my RAID config and it was relatively straight-forward. From there though, I could not get into the OS, WHS 2011 would hang on bootup. After this I was able to repeatably bootup in IDE mode or AHCI, but not RAID.
It seemed to me that I needed a Windows driver for the RAID controller. I googled and found this website where someone with the problem was able to get it to work by installing an older driver first, then a newer driver. http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/23231-hp-n40l-installation-notes-raidready-hdd/
He said the key is in the device manager to see a storage controller from which you can update the driver on. I followed his steps and was unable to get the storage controller to show up in my device manager. I tried to add a legacy device storage controller and pointed it to the AMD WHQL RAID v3.2.1540.75, but WHS wouldnt take anything in the folder as a valid driver for a storage controller.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Last night I changed the BIOS setting from IDE to RAID, hit Ctrl-F on bootup, setup my RAID config and it was relatively straight-forward. From there though, I could not get into the OS, WHS 2011 would hang on bootup. After this I was able to repeatably bootup in IDE mode or AHCI, but not RAID.
It seemed to me that I needed a Windows driver for the RAID controller. I googled and found this website where someone with the problem was able to get it to work by installing an older driver first, then a newer driver. http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/23231-hp-n40l-installation-notes-raidready-hdd/
He said the key is in the device manager to see a storage controller from which you can update the driver on. I followed his steps and was unable to get the storage controller to show up in my device manager. I tried to add a legacy device storage controller and pointed it to the AMD WHQL RAID v3.2.1540.75, but WHS wouldnt take anything in the folder as a valid driver for a storage controller.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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