Detecting S-ATA Raid array

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:26:31 Post Subject: Detecting S-ATA Raid array

Hey... Got my Seagate S-ata drives and started to re-install WinXP. The RAID BIOS is set up as RAID 1, and it sees both my drives... Start the XP install, and give it the floppy for the RAID drivers. But, then it tells me there are no drives for it to install onto? WTF

Do these drives need to be formatted or something? Never had this issue on IDE RAID, or just plain IDE...

Thanks! Mr. T

trekrider · Posted: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:35:29 Post Subject:

I thought you always had to format.....not sure how raid 1 would work tho. Do you format each seperatly (for the mirror) or will the raid utility do them for you?? I've only used raid 0 (stripeing) where both drives need to be formatted as 1 large drive.

trekrider · Posted: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:45:30 Post Subject:

Do you have the BIOS set to boot from the Raid array??

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:01:42 Post Subject:

Not sure why I didn't realize it, but I guess I need to do at least an initial setup on the disks... Bang Head

- not sure what I was thinking. I have had som many Maxtor's for so long, I forgot they were all setup with MaxBlast at one point...

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:44:48 Post Subject:

LOL... so you got it all config'd now?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:44:15 Post Subject:

no - I'm installing a washer and dryer now... its a gas dryer, so I've checked for leaks about 6 times already... Laughing

trekrider · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:47:44 Post Subject:

RTFM?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:10:20 Post Subject:

yeah... umm, yeah. or, common sense would do, too! Laughing

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:22:35 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:57:01 Post Subject:

Heh heh... yeah, or something! They are working fine now... the washer, dryer, AND the new S-ATA RAID1 array!!

Grin