I don't understand SATA RAID

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And I desperately need to restore a DI7 image - I just can't find the
correct driver. I'll tell you as much as I understand about my setup.

SK8V

2xWD Raptors 2+0 Stripe/RAID 0 SCSI
1x300GB 'ordinary' SATA.

Here's the problem - I can't find a driver that shows all three drives when
I boot from the DI CD. The most I've managed is the 300 - I can't get the
Raptors to show at all - bit of a ah heck as that's the boot drive! I have
all my images on the Caviar, but I need access to the Raptors. I can't
access ASUS's site as it appears to be down (again).

Listed under SCSI and RAID controllers are the following (I've Googled
extensively, but I can't find any info)

VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 Controller
WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device

Could someone please tell me where to find the drivers, as I cannot access
ASUS. I've tried everything on the setup disk, but nothing has worked thus
far. I'll call the bloke who built it in the morning, but I'd like to get
this sorted this afternoon if I can. I'm a KISS kinda gal - I long for the
days of IDE where all you needed to do was boot from the DI disc, pick the
image and where you wanted to restore it to, and hit 'restore'. RAID is
*WAY* over my head! Windows is my area of expertise - this is all geek to
me!

Running XP Pro, if it makes any difference (no, I know it probably doesn't).

Any ideas?

Thanks

Yours in sheer desperation

Me
--
My great-grandfather was born and brought up in Elgin - did he
eventually lose his marbles...?

 

[Paul]

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In article <%05Pc.90$hJ2.51@fe48.usenetserver.com>, "Miss Perspicacia
Tick" <misstick@lancre.dw> wrote:

> And I desperately need to restore a DI7 image - I just can't find the
> correct driver. I'll tell you as much as I understand about my setup.
>
> SK8V
>
> 2xWD Raptors 2+0 Stripe/RAID 0 SCSI
> 1x300GB 'ordinary' SATA.
>
> Here's the problem - I can't find a driver that shows all three drives when
> I boot from the DI CD. The most I've managed is the 300 - I can't get the
> Raptors to show at all - bit of a ah heck as that's the boot drive! I have
> all my images on the Caviar, but I need access to the Raptors. I can't
> access ASUS's site as it appears to be down (again).
>
> Listed under SCSI and RAID controllers are the following (I've Googled
> extensively, but I can't find any info)
>
> VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
> WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 Controller
> WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device
>
> Could someone please tell me where to find the drivers, as I cannot access
> ASUS. I've tried everything on the setup disk, but nothing has worked thus
> far. I'll call the bloke who built it in the morning, but I'd like to get
> this sorted this afternoon if I can. I'm a KISS kinda gal - I long for the
> days of IDE where all you needed to do was boot from the DI disc, pick the
> image and where you wanted to restore it to, and hit 'restore'. RAID is
> *WAY* over my head! Windows is my area of expertise - this is all geek to
> me!
>
> Running XP Pro, if it makes any difference (no, I know it probably doesn't).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Yours in sheer desperation
>
> Me

Don't know how to fix your problem, but you can gain access
to a download site here. I have the same problem as others -
there is some kind of DNS problem, and the nodes at Asus use
the name of the server to figure out what you want, so using
an IP address in the URL won't work. This works right now:

http://www.asus.it/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=SK8V&Type=All&SLanguage=en-us

As a small test, I clicked AFUDOS211. Of the four options presented,
downloading from China worked no problem. Downloading from "Global",
which is Taiwan, required munging the URL, from a HTTP to a FTP type.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/AFUDOS211.zip (needed munging)
http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/AFUDOS211.zip (no problem)

Perhaps you can get what you want that way.

There used to be some mirrors, but I think they got too much
traffic, and nuked the content. In any case, download from them was
too slow to be practical.

Paul