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Booting XP from hard disks attached to a Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller

Asked by andymcooper in Miscellaneous Hardware

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I am having trouble setting up my system to boot from hard drives attached to a SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller. My system is:

Motherboard: Epox EP-8RDA+
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
RAM: 3*Corsair CMX256A-3200C2 256MB
SATA controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller

Hard disks:
2*Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB hard drives, setup as RAID-0
(partitioned - 50GB & 330GB)
1*80GB IDE hard drive & 1*30GB IDE hard drive

I currently have Windows XP set up on one of the old IDE hard drives, but would like to install in on the RAID drive. I set up the 2 SATA hard drives as RAID-0, and they work OK from the old Windows XP installation. I then took out the two IDE hard drives to install Windows XP onto the RAID drive. During installation I pressed F6 to select the drivers for the card, which worked fine and the installation copied all the XP files to the 50GB partition on the RAID drive. However, when the XP installation re-started it was unable to find any drive to boot from.

I have tried:

Looking in the motherboard's BIOS for SATA settings (none found)
Flashing my Motherboard's BIOS with the latest version
Changing the BIOS to boot from SCSI (as there is no option for SATA)
Changing other options in the motherboard's BIOS (e.g. "Use fail-safe default", "Use optimised defaults")
Installing Windows XP on a spare IDE hard disk, to see if the bootloader has the RAID version of Windows as an option (it didn't)
Installing Mandrake Linux on an IDE hard drive, to see if it's bootloader finds the RAID version of Windows as an option (it didn't)
Pressing F3 or F4 or Cntrl-S on startup to go into the RAID BIOS (I never see any text for this come up, though, but it says to try this on various websites)

Do you know how I can set things up to boot from the RAID drives?

Many thanks

Andy Cooper

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