Vista Ultimate 64 not recognising second raid drive

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I've just installed two new WD Raptors that I've raided (striped) together in the BIOS.

The BIOS sees them ok but Vista will not recognise them. Is there anything I need to do manually for it to see them (baring in mind my main (Vista) drive is a raid drive too).


(EDIT: Also, I noticed that there were no jumpers in the WD drives when they arrived. Could this be causing Vista not to recognise them as slaves or something?)
 
Yip, you need the Driver on a floppy or USB stick or CD for the Sata Controler, the Nvidia Driver tells you this if you have ever installed it on a single drive. (for installing Vista too) but am I reading correct that you have Vista on the other HDD's and are adding these as storage ?.

Also advise you get on Bios 1301 or 1303 (also updates Sata Bios) for the Quad, do not use the POS 1305 or 1401 when it arrives on site.

The Raptors ae SATA150 so do not need Jumpers, SATA drives do not have jumpers for same reason as EIDE drives, only to set from SATA150 to SATA300.

The OS would be faster on the Raptors as they Seek real fast.
 
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Yip, you need the Driver on a floppy or USB stick or CD for the Sata Controler, the Nvidia Driver tells you this if you have ever instaleld it on a single drive. (for installing Vista too) but am I reading correct that you have Vista on the other HDD's and are adding these as storage ?.
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Yes, that's right. I'm adding them as a second raid drive (mainly for putting games on). At some point I may swap them over and have the WD for running Vista and the Seagates for storage.

Also advise you get on Bios 1301 or 1303 (also updates Sata Bios) for the Quad, do not use the POS 1305 or 1401when it arrives on site.
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Yep, got 1303 BIOS loaded. Only stable one I've come accross so far!

So what do you think is causing vista to not recognise them (they are visible in the BIOS setup and on boot up) :confused:
 
helmutcheese said:
May need go into Control Panel, look for Admin Tools, then look for Comp Management, then choose Disc Management.
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Yep, tried that and also tried rescanning for new drives but nothing was found. I also looked in device manager and the only raid drive there is the one I'm running vista off.

Anything else worth trying?
 
Can you see two arrays in the Disk Drives section of Device Manager?

I'm a bit short of ideas on this one, the board only has a single SATA controller which is already running a RAID0 array so all the drivers are loaded OK. You've created the array through the RAID BIOS so the SATA ports are configured correctly....

Is there a Vista64 compatible version of the NVidia RAID monitoring doof? Might be worth seeing what thay has to say.
 
rpstewart said:
Can you see two arrays in the Disk Drives section of Device Manager?
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No, only RAID0 which is running Vista.

I'm a bit short of ideas on this one, the board only has a single SATA controller which is already running a RAID0 array so all the drivers are loaded OK. You've created the array through the RAID BIOS so the SATA ports are configured correctly....
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Yeah, I imagine it is all set up in the BOIS ok as RAID0 is working fine. One setting I was unsure about was the option of the Silicon SATAII Controller. Currently it is set to SATA and not RAID. Is this correct?

I'm also now noticing that I'm gettign a BSOD evrytime I reboot. It's saying DRIVERS_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and then mentions something about nvrd64.sys. I might try reinstalling the SATA/RAID drivers from nVidia?

Is there a Vista64 compatible version of the NVidia RAID monitoring doof? Might be worth seeing what thay has to say
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I'll have a look for this too...
 
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