RAID error

[Guest]

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I have tried two RAID setups, one Highpoint on the board
and a Promise card added. Under both the hard drives
attached show up as SCSI which they are not. I'm using XP
pro 1a. Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one. The card
worked fine and accessed the drives no problem in the old
version of pro on my other computer. I'm tried every type
of RAID mode. The RAID software finds them, but windows
makes them unusable. They show under the hardware but are
unaccessable (not part of My Computer.) Any ideas?

 

[Len]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Has nothing to do with XP. Drives connected to a third party controller are
almost always detected as SCSI by the system BIOS way before windows comes
into play.

If you try to swap out an RAID array from on type of controller to another
they virtually never work correctly. Each controller uses its own geometry
to setup the array. If you did reain the same controller (ie a PCI card
that you swapped out from the original machine) and the array is not the
boot device, you may simply need to initialize the drive in disk management.

FWIW,
Len

"turk188" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3f5f01c4a5be$ca8ffda0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I have tried two RAID setups, one Highpoint on the board
> and a Promise card added. Under both the hard drives
> attached show up as SCSI which they are not. I'm using XP
> pro 1a. Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one. The card
> worked fine and accessed the drives no problem in the old
> version of pro on my other computer. I'm tried every type
> of RAID mode. The RAID software finds them, but windows
> makes them unusable. They show under the hardware but are
> unaccessable (not part of My Computer.) Any ideas?