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nvidia nforce 680i SLI Raid driver under Server 2008 R2 core

I have three 500 GB sata drives defined as raid5 using the bios on my ASUS p5n32-e sli motherboard.
The PC has The Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition Core 64bit RC installed.
The system and Raid works ok.

I want to be alerted if one of the raid drives goes bad.
I have download a driver (15.35_nforce_win7_64bit_international_whql.exe) and run it from the comand prompt without error.

ON another system with Windows 7 and an intel controller, there is an application to view the raid and "apparently" when an erro occurs it starts a tray icon with messages and logs events via a monitor service that has been installed."

Does anybody know how to achieve notification when running core (no gui) installations using the 680i?

Thanks,

Geoff

ComputerTechie

this could help with a litle editing for windows 7 http://www.optimiz3.com/windows-xp-email-notifications-when-a-drive-fails/

CT

geoff_austin

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Thanks computer techie, went to the vendors website, but the software doesnt work with hardware raid. Thanks for the idea though

MGBaur

I am not very familiar with NVidia boards but I suppose this link could help:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_raid.html
NVidia ships an application called MediaShield with the driver package that is used for setting up and monitoring RAID arrays. I suppose the user's guide found on this page may have some answers.

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