Picked up a pair of 160GB SATA 3.0 HDDs over the weekend and yesterday tried to get Windows XP Pro installed on the SATA RAID 0 array but had no luck.
The mobo is Gigabyte 965P-S3 at bios F7.
I went into the bios and...
1. Set the (Intel) SATA controller to legacy mode
2. Enabled the Gigabyte/JMicron SATA/IDE controller
3. Set the Gigabyte/JMicron controller to RAID + IDE mode
4. Built and configured the RAID 0 array
5. Tried to install Win XP Pro using the F6 key method to load the Gigabyte/JMicron drivers.
At this point everything seems to be going fine - for a while. XP setup reads the floppy and allows me to choose which driver to use then progresses through setup recognizing and allowing me to partition/format the array. However, after formatting the array, XP goes back to loading more stuff and gets to the point where it again tries to load the JMicron drivers from the floppy. At this point XP says it cannot copy the driver from the floppy and asks to try again, exit, or continue without installing the driver.
No matter how many times I "try again" it will not copy the drivers from the floppy. I've tried different floppy discs and different drivers (from the Gigabyte CD and from JMicron website). The floppy drive does work because I can take boot disks I have and start the computer with them.
Eventually, if skip the drivers to continue the XP install, it will fail with BSOD. If I don't do the F6 key thing early in the setup, it will not recognize the HDD array and install fails as well. I have tried all versions of the drivers listed when setup asks me to choose which I'd like to install.
The kicker is that Win2K w/SP3 installs just fine - loading the SATA/RAID drivers using F6, then later in the install Windows picks them off the floppy just fine.
I'm stumped - what am I missing in the Win XP Pro install that allows the Win2K install to work perfectly using the exact same methodology?
The mobo is Gigabyte 965P-S3 at bios F7.
I went into the bios and...
1. Set the (Intel) SATA controller to legacy mode
2. Enabled the Gigabyte/JMicron SATA/IDE controller
3. Set the Gigabyte/JMicron controller to RAID + IDE mode
4. Built and configured the RAID 0 array
5. Tried to install Win XP Pro using the F6 key method to load the Gigabyte/JMicron drivers.
At this point everything seems to be going fine - for a while. XP setup reads the floppy and allows me to choose which driver to use then progresses through setup recognizing and allowing me to partition/format the array. However, after formatting the array, XP goes back to loading more stuff and gets to the point where it again tries to load the JMicron drivers from the floppy. At this point XP says it cannot copy the driver from the floppy and asks to try again, exit, or continue without installing the driver.
No matter how many times I "try again" it will not copy the drivers from the floppy. I've tried different floppy discs and different drivers (from the Gigabyte CD and from JMicron website). The floppy drive does work because I can take boot disks I have and start the computer with them.
Eventually, if skip the drivers to continue the XP install, it will fail with BSOD. If I don't do the F6 key thing early in the setup, it will not recognize the HDD array and install fails as well. I have tried all versions of the drivers listed when setup asks me to choose which I'd like to install.
The kicker is that Win2K w/SP3 installs just fine - loading the SATA/RAID drivers using F6, then later in the install Windows picks them off the floppy just fine.
I'm stumped - what am I missing in the Win XP Pro install that allows the Win2K install to work perfectly using the exact same methodology?