[Ham-Computers] RAID installation Failed (probably due to my ignorance), ...

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Sat Jul 22 12:34:04 EDT 2006


Phil,

The system board here is also an Intel with (currently unused 'cause I didn't 
want to buy a bunch of new drives) the supposedly RAID capable SATA 
controller.  You should have gotten a CD with the board.  The SATA related drivers 
should have been on it.

In a message dated 7/22/2006 11:17:09 AM Central Daylight Time, 
Beaconeer at SBCGlobal.net writes: 
> Anyway, I decided to continue on with the install.  Of course, the first 
> thing that the XP install disk did was to ask me if I wanted to install 3rd 
> party RAID drivers (F6 if I recall).  I said yes.  Duh!  All my MoBo drivers 
> 
> resided on the 320GB SATA drive AN/OR  external external 250GB USB drive, 
> neither of which I could access!  I didn't have the forethought to put them 
> on a CD or floppy and I'm not sure I'd have known how to load the RAID 
> driver from one anyway.

Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)


More information about the Ham-Computers mailing list