Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find
anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is have
two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of
them. Here is details on my setup...

I am running on an Abit BP6 mobo with the latest BIOS (RU). I have a
FastTrak100 in PCI slot 1 that has my bootable OS array. My boot sequence
is set to "EXT, A, C" in the BIOS, with EXT meaning SCSI. With this setup,
I have absolutely no problems booting.

Now, I add a FastTrak SX4000 lite, and throw that in PCI slot 5. When I
turn on my machine, it POSTs, goes through the FT100 BIOS screen, goes
through the SX4000 BIOS screen, then the system goes to "Verifying DMI Pool
Data .." and hangs there.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work??? Promise says they don't support
running two of their controllers at once, but maybe there's a way to get it
to work?

Thanks a lot!!!

"MPG" <baggieboarder********.com> wrote in message news:<FJydnZshmNQjtvPcRVn-sw@comcast.com>...
> Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find
> anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is have
> two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of
> them.

We have fought constantly with Promise RAID cards (the cards that
don't fullfill their Promise) and have had absolutely no luck with two
cards in one box.

Is there any way you can get away with using the native IDE and do
software RAID for one of your arrays?

Conquent-Tech
http://conquent.com/

"MPG" <baggieboarder********.com> wrote in message news:<FJydnZshmNQjtvPcRVn-sw@comcast.com>...
> Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find
> anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is have
> two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of
> them.

We have fought constantly with Promise RAID cards (the cards that
don't fullfill their Promise) and have had absolutely no luck with two
cards in one box.

Is there any way you can get away with using the native IDE and do
software RAID for one of your arrays?

Conquent-Tech
http://conquent.com/

Well I think I could do that but I really don't want to. It seems like I
might take some advice I got somewhere else and boot off a samll drive
that's attached to the standard IDE, but then actually run the OS off the
RAID1 array. This should work as far as I know.

MPG


"Conquent-tech" <discuss@conquent.com> wrote in message
news:ef7eb078.0410171346.bc638f1@posting.google.co m...
> "MPG" <baggieboarder********.com> wrote in message
> news:<FJydnZshmNQjtvPcRVn-sw@comcast.com>...
>> Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find
>> anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is
>> have
>> two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of
>> them.
>
> We have fought constantly with Promise RAID cards (the cards that
> don't fullfill their Promise) and have had absolutely no luck with two
> cards in one box.
>
> Is there any way you can get away with using the native IDE and do
> software RAID for one of your arrays?
>
> Conquent-Tech
> http://conquent.com/

Well I think I could do that but I really don't want to. It seems like I
might take some advice I got somewhere else and boot off a samll drive
that's attached to the standard IDE, but then actually run the OS off the
RAID1 array. This should work as far as I know.

MPG


"Conquent-tech" <discuss@conquent.com> wrote in message
news:ef7eb078.0410171346.bc638f1@posting.google.co m...
> "MPG" <baggieboarder********.com> wrote in message
> news:<FJydnZshmNQjtvPcRVn-sw@comcast.com>...
>> Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find
>> anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is
>> have
>> two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of
>> them.
>
> We have fought constantly with Promise RAID cards (the cards that
> don't fullfill their Promise) and have had absolutely no luck with two
> cards in one box.
>
> Is there any way you can get away with using the native IDE and do
> software RAID for one of your arrays?
>
> Conquent-Tech
> http://conquent.com/