RAID format help please

[ams30gts]

hey guys. i need some help formating my raid hard drives. i have a kr7a-raid mobo. what i used to do is, boot from winmx cd and use the format program from there. but, since i am running raid now, my 1st 2nd and 3rd boot devices are al set to ata133raid, instead of cdrom like it used to be from. it seems i can boot from anything except the hard drives. if anyone has experience in formating a raid setup, your help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Lord Evermore]

Set the first boot device to CDROM. Then 2nd is ATA133RAID. When the system boots after you've installed the OS, it doesn't care which drives it's booting to, it just accesses the RAID controller, which responds with "I have one disk which is bootable" and accesses that drive. It could be a single drive, 2 drives in a striped array, 6 drives in a striped and mirrored array (with a SCSI RAID controller of course). The RAID chip acts as a go-between.

I can't figure out which OS you actually are using... WinMX is a file sharing program, and the E isn't anywhere near the X on a keyboard, and M and P aren't near each other, so I don't know if you meant WinME or WinXP or Win9x maybe.

Either way, whatever disc you're booting with would need to either have drivers loaded, or prompt you for a driver disk for the RAID controller. Otherwise, the setup program can't see your RAID array. With Win2k and WinXP, during the CD boot loading, it says to press F6 to load drivers. Here you would need the Windows drivers for your controller, on a floppy disk. After Windows is installed, it will automatically have those drivers loading so that it can work with the RAID drive as the boot disk.

 

[ams30gts]

i got it done. thanx