dr.art's PCI RAID expansion card discussion

[dr.art]

thanx alexander, I hope I will get this controller finally today working.
I think I have installed the medley drivers, because in the system manager the card is detected as raid ide controller......and in this description there is the word medley too

[Alexander]

@dr. art

So your pc will boot with your optical drives connected to your raid controller? I thought this was your problem?

Greetings
Alexander

[dr.art]

no this is my problem, the pc won't boot if my optical drives are connected to the RAID Card. so can you look into your bios and find out where the entry is?

[dr.art]

no help for me??? can't find that BIOS entry!

edit: hm, must I change something in the BIOS of the IDE RAID Card?

[Alexander]

@dr. art

First, sorry for my late reply. But I was very busy in the office the last days (programming a task for a collegue of me). So here is my quick answer:

On my Award Bios I must select

Advanced Bios Features

first. Then there is an option which is called

ATA RAID or SCSI boot

I have to select SCSI, otherwise my pc will not boot.

Of course you have to install the Medly drivers to access your optical drives in Windows (I'm using Win2000 SP4).

Please check this and reply. Perhaps you can post your bios version? If you don't have an Award bios I can search for your bios options?

Greetings
Alexander

[dr.art]

ok, I've got an Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG

I entered the Advande BIOS Features, but couldn't find such entry. the only one, which had to do something with RAID, was this entry :

Bootable ADD-in Device

there I could select:
-PCI Slot Device
-Onchip SATA RAID (Onchip means VIA)

It's selected to PCI Slot Device, but it won't boot.

[Alexander]

@dr. art

Did you also try onboard SATA RAID?

Greetings
Alexander

[doofusuk]

CD rom on ATA card

I have the same problem when my CD rom is pluged into the ATA card and i bootup i get the error message saying my boot disk is missing ,so i have to unplug my cd rom from my ata card and everythings back to normal,any ideas what setting i have to change to get by the problem

[Kanzleramt]

me 2 with the same MOBO !! GODDAMN !!

[dr.art]

yeah I tried it with onboard SATA RAID, bit it didn't worked,any other solution?

[Kanzleramt]

nope i got the same problems as u got and i only say buy another MOBO or another CARD with from HighPoint

[dr.art]

hm that's stupid, now I've got the card and no use for it. is it better to hang my harddrives on the RAID Card?

[Terramex]

@dr.art
- What was your original configuration ?
Maybe it's just jumper settings.
- In BIOS: Is/was IDE drive detection set to AUTO, or did you have custom settings for faster Boot Up ?

[dr.art]

IDE drive detection is I thin set to auto
the boot up setting is: CDROM - HARDDRIVES - FLOPPY

[Terramex]

What was drive configuration before you plugged your PCI controller ?
Your 2 hardrives always shared an IDE-Port ? There were no master/slave changes ? That's why i mentioned jumper settings.