[F4]

Hello,

I recently set up my first ever RAID array, and I'm having a slight problem booting it. I'm using a Promise FastTrack TX2000 RAID controller card, 2 Western Digital 80gb Special Editions on an ESC K7S5A motherboard.

I'm striping, and my BIOS is set to boot CDROM, Floppy, SCSI and then try other boot devices.

If I take the CDs out of the drives, the computer will not boot, it tries all boot devices and then says "Please insert bootable disk in drive A:", and tries again but doesn't get anywhere.

If I put a bootable CD in the drive (I've been using the Windows XP cd) and wait for the "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM" prompt to time out, it then boot perfectly fine. But without a bootable cd-rom in, it won't boot.

Does anyone have any ideas why? I'm using the latest bios for all of the devices.

Thanks in advance.

[dgk]

You did paritition, format, and install an OS on the raid array, right? And make that partition bootable?

Assuming that is the case, I didn't see that you enabled normal IDE bootup in the bios. It just might show up as a normal ide drive to the bios. That's all I can think of right now. Disable all other boot devices and just leave IDE for the moment.

[FireMogle]

I would try putting scsi first in the list, it will save a few secs regardless.

[F4]

I will try both suggestions, and yes I did install an OS, Windows XP Profesional.

[F4]

Thank you, although neither suggestion solved the problem, I did find out where the problem was.

Although the manual says to select SCSI for the boot device, I didn't even notice the new option listed call "FT Arry X", and obvious as it now is, that was the right choice.

Thanks to both of you.

(Have I ever got egg on my face....)