RAID 1 Installation

[Turkman]

Does anyone have experience with a RAID 1 installation? I've been trying to set this up and I keep getting an XP message telling me it can't find my hard drives. RAID is enabled in the BIOS and I'm able to load the RAID driver. But, as I continue through the XP setup, eventually it tells me it can't find my drives.

I am using two Seagate 120G SATA drives. I was able to get through the setup completely setting things up without RAID 1, but that's not the configuation I want.

Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks...

[Force Flow]

Durning XP's installation, you will see near the beginning a message near the bottom of the screen to "Press F6 to load any 3rd party SCSI drivers". IF you have a floppy with RAID/SATA/SCSI drivers, press F6 and put in the floppy.

If you can access the drives, never mind. XP took care of the drives.

Durning POST, you should see a SATA/SCSI drive detection. Look on that screen to see what key to press to get into the RAID configuration utility.

[Turkman]

I have followed the RAID procedure but XP gives the message: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer". Set up terminates at this point with only an F3 option to quit.

I was able to load XP completely in a non-RAID congfig. Absolutely no problem.

I've set the BIOS, my RAID volume, and the RAID driver from the floppy. All of that goes really smooth. Then I get the message when I continue. Presumably, when it goes to write to the hard drives for the first time.

It's mind boggling because everything else recognizes the drives.

[glc]

What motherboard do you have?

[Turkman]

I have an Intel D865PERLL.

[glc]

Hmm - we seem to have a parallel thread going here, I'm gonna close this one, it's easier than splitting and merging, and I just posted a possible solution in the other thread.