Ultra ATA/100 Raid IDE Controller Card

[beyonddc]

I just bought an Ultra ATA/100 Raid IDE Controller Card. The chipset it uses is CM649. I wonder if anyone heard of it. I am just using it to add an extra harddrive onto my system, so I only installed the IDE drivers but not the RAID drivers on my dual OS system.

This link provides addition information regarding with my IDE Controller Card.
http://www.cmd.com/products/sii0649.asp

WinME and WinXP Prof. worked perfectly and detected my extra harddrive without a problem.

The problem is that when I use a bootdisk to boot into DOS when I first turned on my system. DOS cannot read my extra harddrive. Is there anyway to fix this? or there's no way? I want to access to my extra harddrive through pure DOS. I tried to look for a DOS driver, but no luck. Anyone has any advice or comment, feel free to reply!

thanks 10x

 

[LiLithTecH]

You would need to add a DOS driver on the bootdisk,
which unfortunately this particular card does not support.

 

[beyonddc]

ouch!? no way......

It got to somehow support it, because it is a RAID card, which mean the BIOS needs to somehow dectects it and use it to boot into the system if I am using that feature.

Anyone got anymore comment? Please help, thanks 10x!

 

[sechs]

Actually, your computer knows nothing about the RAID controller except that it is there. To boot to it, you usually need to set the BIOS to SCSI; at boot, the computer simply hands off starting to the controller when it would normally boot up one of the disks on the motherboard's IDE connectors.

If there's no DOS driver, your SOL.