just setup the raid on my abit kt7a-raid, 2 45gb 75gxp's on a master/slave config on IDE3.
turned off IDE detection in the bios, disabled IDE1/IDE2 onboard, set all 3 boot devices to ATA100RAID and disabled the other boot option. after formatting it to a 90gb drive and copying the i386 dir to my drive under c:\win2k and running setup, i install win2k fine. then when it finishes copying the files, etc and reboots to the install screen, i try to hit F6 to install the highpoint controller drivers, but get an error.
Unexpected error in line 962 or something, file d:\*\oemsetup.c and then press any key to continue. so it just goes back to the screen before, press enter to continue or S to enter a new third party driver. since trying to add the driver doesn't work, i hit continue and it goes to load Win2k, at which point it BSODs me with an INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error. since i've gotten this before from windows trying to boot from the IDE drives (none are currently connected however) then i made sure i had the Onboard IDE1 and Onboard IDE2 controllers disabled, and even set the drives to PIO mode in the highpoint bios in case it was something with win2k running under UDMA. none of that worked, and putting the hard drives on IDE1 doesn't work since they need to be on the IDE3 highpoint controller to read the RAID array.
any ideas? i've tried everything i could think of i think, could it be something about the way i'm installing win2k? i've done it this way on other machines flawlessly. stupid raid is killing me to setup =P thanks
turned off IDE detection in the bios, disabled IDE1/IDE2 onboard, set all 3 boot devices to ATA100RAID and disabled the other boot option. after formatting it to a 90gb drive and copying the i386 dir to my drive under c:\win2k and running setup, i install win2k fine. then when it finishes copying the files, etc and reboots to the install screen, i try to hit F6 to install the highpoint controller drivers, but get an error.
Unexpected error in line 962 or something, file d:\*\oemsetup.c and then press any key to continue. so it just goes back to the screen before, press enter to continue or S to enter a new third party driver. since trying to add the driver doesn't work, i hit continue and it goes to load Win2k, at which point it BSODs me with an INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error. since i've gotten this before from windows trying to boot from the IDE drives (none are currently connected however) then i made sure i had the Onboard IDE1 and Onboard IDE2 controllers disabled, and even set the drives to PIO mode in the highpoint bios in case it was something with win2k running under UDMA. none of that worked, and putting the hard drives on IDE1 doesn't work since they need to be on the IDE3 highpoint controller to read the RAID array.
any ideas? i've tried everything i could think of i think, could it be something about the way i'm installing win2k? i've done it this way on other machines flawlessly. stupid raid is killing me to setup =P thanks
