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I have an A-BIT BX133 mobo with HPT370 RAID controller on board. I've got 2 20 gig IBM drives installed on the ATA 100 channels-primary master, and secondary master.

They show up in the RAID bios utility as primary (boot), and secondary (hidden). Is this correct?

Under device manager only one of the RAID drives is listed along with my primary western digital drive where the OS resides (WIN 98). Is this correct?

Under "My Computer" there is no Icon for any RAID drives, only drive "C". Is this correct?

Anyway, how do I use the RAID for storage? I tied to test it by creating a document in notepad and saving it, but there is no option to save to the RAID. I thought the system would just recognize it as another hard drive.

The RAID drives haven't been formatted yet, because I don't know how to access them.

What am I missing? Help!


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Last night I tried setting the RAID to SPAN (JBOD) mode.

Same problem. I can't figure out how to access the drives in the RAID for storage.

I've been through eveything in the mobo manual and the driver disk. The only info that comes with it is for installation and setup. Nothing for utilization.

Any suggestions on where to look for more info would be greatly appreciated.

Twist
 
twist said:
I have an A-BIT BX133 mobo with HPT370 RAID controller on board. I've got 2 20 gig IBM drives installed on the ATA 100 channels-primary master, and secondary master.

They show up in the RAID bios utility as primary (boot), and secondary (hidden). Is this correct?

Under device manager only one of the RAID drives is listed along with my primary western digital drive where the OS resides (WIN 98). Is this correct?

Under "My Computer" there is no Icon for any RAID drives, only drive "C". Is this correct?

Anyway, how do I use the RAID for storage? I tied to test it by creating a document in notepad and saving it, but there is no option to save to the RAID. I thought the system would just recognize it as another hard drive.

The RAID drives haven't been formatted yet, because I don't know how to access them.

What am I missing? Help!
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If I'm not mistaken, your setup is this:

You have only 2 drives in your computer, each 20gigs. You set them up in a RAID configuration. Installed windows 98 on them.. and can't see both drives?...

lf RAID was set up right, everything is okay... one drive mirrors the other... you only get to see one drive.
 
Thanks wildfire,

But no, My OS drive is primary master, secondary master is my CD burner.

IDE 3 and 4 are 20 gig IBMs for the RAID.

Also, from DOS, I tried a: fine. c: fine. d: fine. e: invalid drive spec. f: invalid drive spec.

Maybe I have the concept all wrong, but I thought I could just use the RAID as my audio only drive, and install nothing else on it.

Thanks again for replying,

Twist
 
twist said:
Thanks wildfire,

But no, My OS drive is primary master, secondary master is my CD burner.

IDE 3 and 4 are 20 gig IBMs for the RAID.

Also, from DOS, I tried a: fine. c: fine. d: fine. e: invalid drive spec. f: invalid drive spec.

Maybe I have the concept all wrong, but I thought I could just use the RAID as my audio only drive, and install nothing else on it.
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if thats the cases, have your tried creating to create a partition on it?... Win9x/ME ... use Fdisk.. Win 2000/XP.. Use Computer Managament -> Disk Manager

Its probably there... you just have to let your OS there's a drive in there to be formated (by creating at least one partition).
 
Thanks wildfire,

Good point. I'll try fdisk tonite and post back here.

Twist
 
(Slaps forehead) I had a feeling I was overlooking something simple. Last nite I defined the RAID drives with "fdisk" and formatted. Guess what ? Worked like a charm in Win 98. Now I want to try to set it up under NT

Thanks again - I couldn't see the forest for the trees.

Twist
 
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