In desperate need of HELP!! -Been trying for days to get my RAID configured, but just keep hitting roadblock after roadblock. Sorry for the long post, but here?s what I have going:
?Old? Pentium 150 (converting to home server)
Asus MB (82439HX chipset)
Promise FastTrack100 LX Ultra ATA RAID card
2- Western Digital 60GB 5400rpm HD?s (RAID 1)
The setup:
The Bios was flashed successfully (which I hoped would solve this whole mess). HD #1 & HD #2 are set up through Channel #1 and Channel #2 on the controller. Both drives were formatted with Fdisk (enabled large disk support and formatted one primary active partition for both drive 1 and 2). The full storage capacity of each disk was only recognized to have 32GB?s after setting partition. Both HD?s are jumpered as Master. ?(However, the drives had to use an alternate ?double? jumper setting defined in the Western Digital manual in order to be recognized by my system at all). Both ?Auto? and ?LBA? HD detection were selected in the CMOS at different times through this.
Here?s the deal? The Promise controller is recognized as well as both HD?s upon initial boot sequence. When setting up the RAID array through the Promise BIOS, both drives are functional and are listed to have only 2.1GB apiece. At this point, booting to the CD-ROM begins, and Windows 2000 will load all system drivers including the Promise FastTrack driver from the floppy at the prompt.
When the screen: ?Welcome to Setup? part of Windows 2000 installation starts, a message flashes which states ?setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer & that any disk related hard ware configuration is correct.?
I?m stuck!! WTF is going on here? I have tried loading Windows NT, 2000 and 98. Win98 gets me a little further into the installation after loading all the drivers, but I finally get thrown a different message that states: ?Scandisk cannot read from the last cluster on Drive C. This cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may need to have Logical Block Addressing enabled to work properly, or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition.? The only thing I can figure out is maybe a bad combination of those funky (alternate) jumper settings along with BIOS/CMOS settings.
Any hints to get me out of this BS would be appreciated!!
?Old? Pentium 150 (converting to home server)
Asus MB (82439HX chipset)
Promise FastTrack100 LX Ultra ATA RAID card
2- Western Digital 60GB 5400rpm HD?s (RAID 1)
The setup:
The Bios was flashed successfully (which I hoped would solve this whole mess). HD #1 & HD #2 are set up through Channel #1 and Channel #2 on the controller. Both drives were formatted with Fdisk (enabled large disk support and formatted one primary active partition for both drive 1 and 2). The full storage capacity of each disk was only recognized to have 32GB?s after setting partition. Both HD?s are jumpered as Master. ?(However, the drives had to use an alternate ?double? jumper setting defined in the Western Digital manual in order to be recognized by my system at all). Both ?Auto? and ?LBA? HD detection were selected in the CMOS at different times through this.
Here?s the deal? The Promise controller is recognized as well as both HD?s upon initial boot sequence. When setting up the RAID array through the Promise BIOS, both drives are functional and are listed to have only 2.1GB apiece. At this point, booting to the CD-ROM begins, and Windows 2000 will load all system drivers including the Promise FastTrack driver from the floppy at the prompt.
When the screen: ?Welcome to Setup? part of Windows 2000 installation starts, a message flashes which states ?setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer & that any disk related hard ware configuration is correct.?
I?m stuck!! WTF is going on here? I have tried loading Windows NT, 2000 and 98. Win98 gets me a little further into the installation after loading all the drivers, but I finally get thrown a different message that states: ?Scandisk cannot read from the last cluster on Drive C. This cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may need to have Logical Block Addressing enabled to work properly, or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition.? The only thing I can figure out is maybe a bad combination of those funky (alternate) jumper settings along with BIOS/CMOS settings.
Any hints to get me out of this BS would be appreciated!!
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