Raid w/ Win98- wont boot

[JustStarting]

Had my system running fine for a few weeks and added two 30GB Seagate hdd's on IDE 3&4 for Striping raid setup. Setup the raid, partitioned the drives and and formatted. When I select anything in the bios other than my original hdd as a boot device- the system hangs when booting up. Funny part is that it hangs after memory check, highpoint bios check (KT7), and stops all activity at the "Verifying DMI Pool Data" portion of booting up. In Windows on my original hdd, the drives are visible and formatted. Even booting up w/ floppy the system freezes at the same point. Believe a setting is wrong in the bios but I'm not sure. I manually loaded Win98 startup disk onto the new hdd from my old system and still nothing. I'm kinda new at this, so any help is appreciated.

 

[jaeger66]

Try disconnecting the old drive, and check the BIOS to make sure the boot sequence is right.

 

[JustStarting]

I've disconnected the old drive and configured the boot devices to a few different configurations with the same result. Noticed that one of my drives in the highpoint bios says "hidden" next to it, while the other says hdd1.

 

[oolong]

Is there anywhere in your BIOS where you can mess with the sequence of drives your PC is trying to boot?(ie. A,C,CD-ROM) If so, try changing the order of them. I have a fastrack 100 PCI card in my system, I had to change my boot device order to A, SCSI, CD-ROM to get my RAID working. When I had it on A, C, CD-ROM, mine would also hang on "verifying DMI pool." Don't ask me why it considers a PCI controller card a SCSI card, but it worked for me.

hope this helps
oolong

 

[FunkyD]

I just set my KT7-RAID up over the weekend.

Follow the RAID setup instructions in the manual, and get to the HPT controller setup. There, you define the array, which drives it uses, and which drive is the primary (pick your IDE3 drive). The other will be hidden, and on your next boot, the bios will treat it as just another 60 gig drive (hdd1 in your case). Rememeber, the key to getting into this stage is to set ALL your boot devices to ATA100. After the raid is configured, set them back to whatever you like (floppy, HDD0, LS120 is typical).

Good luck, and enjoy the blazing speed! I have a couple 45GB IBM deskstars, and I drool every time I see the HD light blink for a microsecond.