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Adaptec 1210sa SATA RAID Controller
I have a new Dell PowerEdge 750, 2.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache, all with (2) 250 GB SATA drives.
I've recently bought an Adaptec 1210sa SATA Raid Controller and following the directions, I've attached the card into either PCI slot, and though the motherboard recognizes the card, whether I have an Windows Server 2003 or not, it won't let me go any further.
With the O/S, it'll boot to "Press F1 to continue, or F2 to Setup." If I hit F1, the blue screen of death flashes quickly, then automatically reboots. If I hit F2, of course it goes into Setup which does me no good, and promptly brings me back to the same message.
Any thoughts as to how I can make this work? Thanks
davidmoisan
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Posted September 5th, 2004 01:00
What you need to do is make a floppy disk with the SATA RAID driver, which should be on the CD from Adaptec or on their web site. Do this from another machine.
Then boot and hit F6. Insert the floppy. NTLDR should read the driver in and then see your SATA drives.
This is a standard option for many SCSI and RAID drivers that may not be already included in Windows; you may recall Windows Setup asking you to hit F6 if you have third-party disk drivers to load. Same thing
Take care,
Dave
davidmoisan
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Posted September 11th, 2004 01:00
The only way I found is to follow the instructions in this PDF on the Dell site:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/PE750/multlang/TS/Diskette/F3043am0HR.pdf
The floppy looks like a generic one that you could borrow from an old desktop somewhere.
The next version of Windows had better support inserting CDROM copied drivers. I had thought that Win2K3 would, but checking my copy, no.
Good luck and take care,
Dave
I tried hitting F6, but nothing happened. I do understand what you're suggesting though. My only options are to boot to the utlity partition to perform a hardware diagnstic test (Dell OpenManage), or hit CTRL-A to goto the DOS-based SATA RAID card configuration menu. Both operations don't help.
If I don't execute either option, I revert to the original problem. Thoughts? Thanks
gregory_mignon
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Posted August 23rd, 2004 08:00
Hi,
Did you make a raid before or not ?
I think that there is no raid configuration readable by the Raid Card and so the card cannot work correctly with the hard disk drives installed.
Perhaps you've already reinstalled the Operating System after creating a Raid partition but I don't think, do I ?
It's the reason of the problem...
You should backup your datas, create a virtual disk with the RAID BIOS card and restore your datas on your new raid configuration.
You cannot reboot on your OS if you put a RAID Card because the initial OS configuration is not done for that.