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Dave65
05-06-02, 06:07 PM
I just got done reformatting my drives and adding the Raid setup,and I hit F6 and it installed the drivers from the floppy,but after boot up it still shows the HDDs as drive C and drive D is this normal,I thought it combined the two drives together to make one big drive,what did I do wrong??
Thanks
Ottoman
05-06-02, 06:14 PM
are your drives paired up? or different?

and did u setup it up in the Raid Bios to be striped?
Dave65
05-06-02, 06:15 PM
They are the same drives,but no I didnt go into the BIOS.
cw823
05-06-02, 06:43 PM
YOu'll have to go into the RAID BIOS and create the array first. Then Windows will see one drive.
Dave65
05-06-02, 06:57 PM
Is that in the system Bios,I didnt see anything in there for RAID..
Mobile
05-06-02, 07:22 PM
Most times you will have to set a jumper on your motherboard to enable the RAID bios.
cw823
05-06-02, 07:23 PM
It is a seperate BIOS. If I could pull up a manual from Epox's site I would.....slow as all get out. Check the manual for instructions.
mbigna
05-06-02, 08:19 PM
Are you sure that you loaded the Promise RAID driver and NOT the Promise ULTRA driver. The latter lets you use channels 3 and 4 as regular IDE channels.

Otherwise read THIS thread for complete instructions:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85701

I'm working on a more detailed instruction thread to make STICKY in the Soyo AMD board forums. Look for it there SOON.
cw823
05-06-02, 08:20 PM
Originally posted by mbigna
Are you sure that you loaded the Promise RAID driver and NOT the Promise ULTRA driver. The latter lets you use channels 3 and 4 as regular IDE channels.

Otherwise read THIS thread for complete instructions:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85701

I'm working on a more detailed instruction thread to make STICKY in the Soyo AMD board forums. Look for it there SOON.


That won't matter....we're not that far yet. He doesn't seem to have the raid array created yet.
Dave65
05-06-02, 09:05 PM
Ok guys I think I got it,it is showing up as 1 drive 122 GIG
So I think it is ok,I found the Bios Ctrl+H.
Plus if I would have looked in the box for the directions for the RAID setup it would have saved a lot of my time and yours:)
But thanks for all you guys help:D
cw823
05-07-02, 06:22 AM
Originally posted by Dave65
Ok guys I think I got it,it is showing up as 1 drive 122 GIG
So I think it is ok,I found the Bios Ctrl+H.
Plus if I would have looked in the box for the directions for the RAID setup it would have saved a lot of my time and yours:)
But thanks for all you guys help:D



yes, but reading the directions would violate everything I believe in!


:D