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Hey, I'm back from malta, great to see you got this up and running.. I'm going to the post office today to go and see what a 'package' is that they've been holding..

Regards..

Madwelsh
 
Cool - hopefully you got the memory with it, if not I've got a handy site, drop me an email if you need it! You'll be happy to know that the setup is incredibly simple, and I've found another forum site that is brilliant for us as it has several users of the Dell and LSi versions of the card, can be found Here
 
Yippee!!! It arrived well packed and comes with 256 meg and the battery.. all for the princely sum including postage of £97.. considering the equivalent new in this country is like 750 ish quid, I'm well chuffed. Just need to test it now.. I'm running a dfi nf4 (not sli) with an x1900xtx, do I just slap the megaraid into the spare slot? Is there anything I need to change in the bios.. I'm thinking I may well need the drivers although I only run xp pro..

Now, the next trick is blowing a wad of cash on some atlas scsi drives :) I'm planning on 2 x 70 gig raided for the scsi, and using a 200 gig sata as storage.. think this is ok?

cheers in advance
 
Yeah - sounds like my plan thought I'm trying to pick up some Cheetahs as that's what I started on!

The problem with the non SLi (Ultra D?) is that the 2nd slot only runs at 2x speed - this will work with the card, but not at full speed :rolleyes: You need to mod your board to SLi, then you can run the slots at 8x and 8x.

The mod can be found Here

You will have to use the LSI drivers as Dell don't support XP :rolleyes: You can do it manually by telling the wizard you'll select the driver from a list or you can use the method below:

This thread was quite helpful, although the .rar files I downloaded were corrupt. Here is what I did to make it work for me. Go to www.lsi.com and download the Megaraid 320-2e driver. Unzip it and open the oemsetup.ini file in notepad. Find the line in the section with all the ExcludeFromSelect's that reads:
ExcludeFromSelect = PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0408&SUBSYS_00021028
Delete that line.
Further down, look for the section titled:
;MegaRAID PCI Express(TM) ROMB
It will have two entries. Add a third line:
%mraidPCIEROMB.DeviceDesc% = mraid35x_Inst, PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0408&SUBSYS_00021028
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Basically what you do is tell the LSI driver NOT to ignore the Dell version of the card (by deleting the ExcludeFromSelect line) and then tell it to treat it like the MegaRAID card, by adding the line further down.
Use the modified OEMSETUP.inf file along with all the other LSI driver files and it will install successfully on an existing WinXP setup. (You will get the warning about the driver not being Windows certified, but ignore it). You can also copy the driver files to a floppy along with the modified inf file, and hit F6 during a new install, and it will work there too. Good luck!
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Should just about cover it!

EDIt: I'd always recommend having a seperate windows drive as well, so perhaps an 18Gb 15k drive purely for windows as well as the array (that's what I've gone for!)

Also: On my board I only get boot every other go - bit of a pain, but I'm still working on it - the board completely hangs and the power/reset buttons don't work - I have to unplug, then try again and it always works second time! The guys on 2Cpu with Ultra-D's don't have this problem, and it may be down to your GFX card, so let me know if it happens to you :p
 
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