Thunder K8WE (S2895) SATA RAID Hell

Anyone got the NVRaid to work as a boot device at all? I have updated
the bios, tried slipstreaming drivers and still end up with 2 drives
when the machine boots up in Windoze 2003 after install. Then of course
it corrupts and I have to start again. This has happened 8 times
already and I am up for suggestions.

At initial install screen, it sees only 1 drive (I slipstreamed the
nvraid driver into a new install cd), everything is fine til it boots
up for the first time after install, then it finds 2 generic
volumes...and raid is no more... BTW, it's set as Raid 1.

K8WE, 2xSeagate 7200.8 300GB

try and see the guys at www.k8we.com
I use scsi so I can't advise you based on my own setup.
Why are you wanting to make a dual 300GB drive setup as your boot disk ? I
am sure you have a good reason, I just would like to know, thanks

Henrik

"Francesco Chu" <> wrote in message
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> Anyone got the NVRaid to work as a boot device at all? I have updated
> the bios, tried slipstreaming drivers and still end up with 2 drives
> when the machine boots up in Windoze 2003 after install. Then of course
> it corrupts and I have to start again. This has happened 8 times
> already and I am up for suggestions.
>
> At initial install screen, it sees only 1 drive (I slipstreamed the
> nvraid driver into a new install cd), everything is fine til it boots
> up for the first time after install, then it finds 2 generic
> volumes...and raid is no more... BTW, it's set as Raid 1.
>
> K8WE, 2xSeagate 7200.8 300GB
>

Mirroring for redunduncy. Not my idea of fun, but I got it to work by
slipstreaming the nv raid drivers for both sata and pata (yes, both)
and then it works...bizzare. now I have to figure out network bridging.

Henrik Tived wrote:
> try and see the guys at www.k8we.com
> I use scsi so I can't advise you based on my own setup.
> Why are you wanting to make a dual 300GB drive setup as your boot disk ? I
> am sure you have a good reason, I just would like to know, thanks
>
> Henrik
>
> "Francesco Chu" <> wrote in message
> news: ups.com...
> > Anyone got the NVRaid to work as a boot device at all? I have updated
> > the bios, tried slipstreaming drivers and still end up with 2 drives
> > when the machine boots up in Windoze 2003 after install. Then of course
> > it corrupts and I have to start again. This has happened 8 times
> > already and I am up for suggestions.
> >
> > At initial install screen, it sees only 1 drive (I slipstreamed the
> > nvraid driver into a new install cd), everything is fine til it boots
> > up for the first time after install, then it finds 2 generic
> > volumes...and raid is no more... BTW, it's set as Raid 1.
> >
> > K8WE, 2xSeagate 7200.8 300GB
> >