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Disable Raid

Feb 18, 2004 4:39AM PST

I'm having trouble (I'm sure my fault) with the raid IDE on my new SOYO motherboard. I decided to try and disable the raid but whenever I reboot, XP says it has found new hardware.

I'm using:
XP-Pro
P4 Celeron 1.7MGH
256MB Ram 2700
Two harddrives (13.5 NTSF) and 40 (FAT32)
CD-Rom
Plextor CD-RW

I've set my hard drives up as master and slave and the burner and cd-rom as master and slave. I'm not using the two raid ide ports. Should I?

Suggestions?

Denny Jones

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Re:Disable Raid
Feb 18, 2004 7:01AM PST

If the RAID is onboard, disable it in the Bios. If an add-on card, pull the card.

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Re:Disable Raid
Feb 18, 2004 7:37AM PST

Disable raid, either you did or didn't. Did you go the bios route and disable there? Not only that but save before exiting the bios? Unless, you need to use some mtrbd. s/w, then use it, it should be straightfoward. No, you needn't use the RAID ports for what you got now installed. Upon boot-up it should display some(if active) or no RAID(no mention). You should reboot again after a successful disable to make sure as it "might" say RAID is no longer active and not mention it again in later reboots. -----Willy

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Re:Disable Raid
Feb 18, 2004 9:35PM PST

I have seen many system on which a disabled device (one disabled in the BIOS) still showed up when you booted it up.

As long as you don't have your drives connected to the Raid controller you should not really have issues from having it enabled.

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Re:Re:Disable Raid
Feb 19, 2004 6:14PM PST

Thanks. I'll give you an update when I get it done.

Denny