Adaptec 1430SA Issues

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Anyone using this or its close cousin (1420SA)?

Arrived from oc.uk today + 2 hard drives. Cannot get it to function at all. After BIOS it says "Warning: Have ROM option can not be invoke (Vendor ID: ...)" and in Windows I get a code 10 error when installing the CD drivers.

Don't actually need to install an OS on it, I just want a RAID0 data storage set up.

I've also tried booting off the CD and the manager can't even find the card.

Tried in both 8x and 16x PCI-E slots on this 680i, nada. (rest of spec in sig)

RMA job?

 

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Update: Seems it conflicts with the onboard 680i's RAID.

Since I can't run the Adaptec in non-RAID mode, it's not much use for adding data drives to a PC!

Will try meddling with manual IRQs but not holding my breath, urgh.

 

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Aye, I ghosted my XP RAID0 partition to boot from the 1430 in the end, and used the 680i ports as data drives in non-RAID mode - works just fine.