I am trying to set up two Western Digital 120GB drives (IDE drives with SATA adapters, e.g., Highpoint Rocketraid) to run in RAID 0 configuration on a VNF3-250. I set up the BIOS for RAID, then hit F10 during boot and create the RAID array, then boot from CD to start Windows Setup. During Windows Setup I hit F6 to tell it I want to install RAID drivers, and then I hit S when it says to and load the two RAID/storage drives from a floppy disk (the floppy disk contains the drivers from the original driver CD that came with the motherboard). Windows goes about loading some files for a minute, then pauses for a LOOOONG time with a message like "Loading Windows" at the bottom of the screen, then still in the DOS-like Setup program it says something like "Hit enter to continue installing Windows", and then immediately after I hit enter it says that no hard drives were found.
I have tried the things listed in this thread and they don't seem to help. I have used one DIMM and two. I have disabled an IDE channel and set the DVD-ROM as a secondary slave. I have set the RAID array to Boot and also to not Boot. I have disabled the IDE RAID settings and also left them enabled. Nothing seems to work. I haven't updated to a beta BIOS or used the latest RAID driver from the NVidia website (though I notice that the date on the website's driver is January, 2004, so the RAID drivers on the NVidia website probably aren't any newer than what came with the motherboard).
If I disable RAID and try to install Windows to one of the "SATA drives", that works fine and gives me a booting WinXP setup but without RAID.
I see that others have had similar problems (e.g., in the thread linked above). Does anyone know how to fix this and get the RAID working?
I have tried the things listed in this thread and they don't seem to help. I have used one DIMM and two. I have disabled an IDE channel and set the DVD-ROM as a secondary slave. I have set the RAID array to Boot and also to not Boot. I have disabled the IDE RAID settings and also left them enabled. Nothing seems to work. I haven't updated to a beta BIOS or used the latest RAID driver from the NVidia website (though I notice that the date on the website's driver is January, 2004, so the RAID drivers on the NVidia website probably aren't any newer than what came with the motherboard).
If I disable RAID and try to install Windows to one of the "SATA drives", that works fine and gives me a booting WinXP setup but without RAID.
I see that others have had similar problems (e.g., in the thread linked above). Does anyone know how to fix this and get the RAID working?
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