Trying to get this damn RAID thing to work for the last week and getting very frustrated
. Any help would be appreciated!!Here's what I have:
Pentium 150
64 MB 72-Pin EDO RAM (4- 16 MB Simms Installed ? system max is 128 MB)
Asus MB P/I-P55T2P4 (Intel 430HX chipset)
Promise FastTrack100 TX Ultra ATA RAID card ? in a RAID 1 array with:
1- Western Digital 60GB 5400rpm HD
2- Western Digital 60GB 5400rpm HD
(I want to convert this old machine to a home server for data storage)
My installation procedure/failure on the RAID configuration:
1) The Bios was flashed successfully. Upgraded to: Award Modular BIOS P/I-P55T3P4 Bios Ver. 0207 11/25/1998 from Award Modular BIOS v.4.51PG ? 06/10/96.
2) HD #1 & HD #2 are set up through Channel #1 and Channel #2 on the controller.
3) Both HD?s 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?
4) 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 trail.
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 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 or something with BIOS/CMOS settings?
What gives?
Thanks!
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