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SATA issue on new K8NXP-SLI

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twocerveza

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hi all, just joined but been reading now and then.

Well, first a bit about my sytem:

I've got 2 disks on serial ata 150 (none on SATAII):

1. Raptor 36.9 gb (system disk)
2. Hitachi 80 gb (storage)

New gigabyte board, Athlon 64 3200+, 1 gig RAM Corsair SATA SI3114 Raid 5 controller and the rest.

My problem is that everytime I install Windows XP (after the F6, install SATA drivers from disk), I can get there the first time. But whenever I reboot, I always have blue screen saying it was unable to load whatever file. Then I am never able to reload windows.

I have selected ABOD in the RAID setup for both disks. My raptor is totally formatted but my hitachi has 3 partitions on it, 2 are empty but one is filled with data.

Do you have an idea of why such thing happen ? I have tried to find newer drivers for Raid 5 as I am not totally sure if the ones I use are the latest, but I don't seem to find the right ones. The SATA/RAID bios says 5.1.39 and the latest I found on the net are 5.0.XX. I guess the ones provided with the boards are the ones to use, but no luck there.

Any idea, suggestion ? About everything you can tell me would help, I'm stuck

Cheers



 
I cannot even imagine how you managed to create a Raid 5 with only 2 hard disk drives as the minimum for a Raid 5 is 3 identical hard disc drives.

What board is it exactly and is it an onboard raid controller or a pci card ?
If your raid controller actually can handle raid 5 (this is why i think its not onboard) it might have tried to create a Raid 5 using your 36GB drive as master and making 2 36 GB partitions on your 80 GB drive + spare.
The spare part is probably where you see data.
Check if the 2 partitions are about 36 GB to verify this theory.

But really, for any raid configuration, get identical drives, or at the very least identical sizes.
 
The problem is that you have RAID enabled in the bios, you are probably loading the RAID version of the windows drivers but you DONT have the drives setup to be a RAID array.

What you need to do is forget about RAID, you have a couple of SATA drives on a SATA controller. Change the bios setting to IDE mode (or whatever the Non-Raid setting is for your motherboard) and also check to see if there is more than one driver version for your controller and if there is, choose the one that doesn't mention Raid or does mention IDE or SATA

 
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