XP/Promise Raid won't work!

[BobG]

I have a new Soyo P4ISR with on-board Raid (Promise). I can't get the Raid function enabled. I have installed the latest drivers from the Soyo site, but no luck. What happens is just after XP begins to start and initilize, I get a blue screen with text that says (more or less) that I have a disk or controller problem and setup halts.
Any body else have this problem and know how to fix it.
It seems to me that the Promise drivers are at fault.
Thanks.

[bailey]

sounds more like the raid boot sequence is not set up correctly

[BobG]

Hi Bailey:
Wish that were the case, but it's not a boot issue. If it were I wouldn't even get to the XP initialization screen, and I wouldn't get the message I'm getting.
Thanks for the reply.

[Alfie]

What hard drives are you using?
How have you configured raid in promise bios?

[BobG]

Hello again Alfie, thanks for your reply. Got it all working finally, thanks to the posts on this board.
What was throwing me is that the disk with the initial XP install was on the RAID connector configured to be an IDE. I had another disk on a regular IDE and XP would not give me the Repair choice. Once I unhooked the regular IDE drive all went well.

[BobG]

For the benefit of others here's what finally got this solved.
First I got XP drivers from Soyo, they didn't come with the board. Also these drivers are not digitally signed, but they do work.
Because I did an install configuring the RAID connector as IDE I needed to do a repair. But I had another disk on a regular IDE connector. In this configuration XP wanted to install on the regular IDE disk and wouldn't give me the repair choice for the disks on the RAID connector. What I had to do was unhook the disk on the regular IDE port so that the only disk that could be seen was the disk on the RAID connector. Once I did this I could setup and install the drivers (hitting the F6 key at the first stage of setup). I proceeded through setup. When XP saw the installed version on the disk (now the only disk on the system) it gave me the repair choice. I hit R and the rest was simple.