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stupid raid drivers

Oct 27, 2010 12:11PM PDT

I have just built a new machine with a Biostar TA890FXE motherboard. I am using raid 1 with two identical 1TB drives. When I try to install windows 7 it says that there are missing raid drivers. I tried using my drivers CD and it did not even see any drivers. I tried using the newest driver on my flash drive as well as windows vista and xp drivers. None were recognized. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what was the fix?

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Link please.
Oct 27, 2010 12:26PM PDT

Supply a link to the product's manual.

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manual
Oct 27, 2010 12:52PM PDT
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Ok. Page 27.
Oct 27, 2010 1:27PM PDT
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sorry i left that out
Oct 27, 2010 1:40PM PDT

I already changed the BIOS setting to RAID and configured the array. Even after that I got the driver problem. Also I have looked at the forum you posted and his solution which was to use the Biostar driver instead of AMD. I have tried all the drivers that I can find. (I cant find the AMD ones though).

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Looks grim.
Oct 27, 2010 1:58PM PDT

Time to call that supplier or the motherboard support site. We tried the usual and it's not ready for consumption. I read a few reviews and the board docs are lacking.

Sorry to read another failure.
Bob

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So you would think
Oct 27, 2010 2:27PM PDT

You would think that would be the disappointing end of it. Wrong again. The Biostar site does not post a phone number and they did not reply to my email. (probably because they have no solution)...

Oh well looks like no RAID for now and no Biostar in the future.

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Sorry.
Oct 27, 2010 2:41PM PDT

I can't see what happened when you "changed the BIOS setting to RAID and configured the array". Many times I find folk that did that but the makers are assuming we know how to configure the array or more.

For example you wrote you tried XP but XP is not supported. This could lead to corrupt drives that fail later.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258586-32-biostar-t5xe-raid-setup and many other posts complain about no documentation and how folk have to guess the setup. I don't see the details so I'm left with a failed system.
Bob

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Oh well
Oct 27, 2010 2:45PM PDT

I emailed Biostar and set up RAID exactly as instructed. So I'm pretty much just blaming this one on Biostar and mourning for my loss.

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At the link that you posted
Oct 27, 2010 2:54PM PDT

do you see the Serial ATA AHCI/RAID drivers? Download the W7 driver and extract it onto a floppy. Yeah, legacy from the dark ages. Load the RAID driver during W7 installation BEFORE selecting the drive to install W7. For me, W7 installer failed to find mass storage drivers on a CD or flash. Maybe it will find if the files are in the root directory but I didn't bother to investigate cause I have a FDD. BTW you will probably find same RAID drivers on mobo CD in one of the directories.

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huh
Oct 27, 2010 3:00PM PDT

Did it see them on the floppy but not the flashdrive or CD? I did try the ATA AHCI/RAID driver and the one on the disk

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Are you saying
Oct 28, 2010 12:02AM PDT

you used floppy, chose custom for W7 install, and it didn't work?

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no
Oct 28, 2010 12:49PM PDT

What I am saying is that all I have is usb and optical. I have some old floppy drives but they use narrower ide cables and dont fit into the mobo. I think I will just go buy a FDD or not use RAID.

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You could
Oct 28, 2010 2:11PM PDT