Problems with HPT366 and HPT370 RAID

bburns · Post by **bburns** » Mon May 05, 2003 10:18 am

Problem as following: the system does not start when a disk is connected to HPT366. System disks are connected to HPT370 RAID as RAID 0. When I start the system (XP Pro) without additional disk connected to HPT366 and then connect it (scan for new hardware), everything is ok. Does anybody know why and how to solve it?

Post by **Derek** » Mon May 05, 2003 10:31 am

What exactly happens when you try to boot from it?

bburns · Post by **bburns** » Mon May 05, 2003 10:33 am

Blank screen, after recognizing disk by HPT370 AND HPT366 black screen appears.

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Tue May 06, 2003 2:24 am

Just a guess: Change the boot sequence in the BIOS (external or C: first)

bburns wrote:When I start the system (XP Pro) without additional disk connected to HPT366 and then connect it (scan for new hardware), everything is ok.

What do mean by that? You boot with all drives attached, but without the HPT366 installed in XP and that works, right? Because that sounds like you plug in the drive physically when the system is already running (which you really shouldn´t do).

bburns · Post by **bburns** » Tue May 06, 2003 9:03 am

The boot sequence is ok (ext-scsi,c,a). If I will boot with all drives attached doesn't work. When i unplug the hdd attached to hpt366 everything is ok. Then, when system starts <add new hardware> and everything works. HINT: HDD is in a case, so I can turn it on later

Primary IDE: DVD Pioneer (Master)
Secondary IDE: LiteOn CDRW (Master)
Primary HPT366: Fujitsu HDD 30 GB (Master)
Primary HPT370: Barracuda III 40 GB (Master) (RAID 0)
Secondary HPT370: Barracuda III 40 GB (Master) (RAID 0)

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Wed May 07, 2003 1:34 am

bburns wrote:HINT: HDD is in a case, so I can turn it on later

You built a "hot-plug-case" for an IDE HD? Or did you buy it? Internal oder external? How is it connected? I thought it was dangerous to hot-plug such a device because the connector pins do not connect at exactly the same time when you plug it in.

Sorry for getting off-topic;) I still think your problem is the boot sequence. Maybe the BP6 BIOS doesn´t recognize the HPT370 as an "external SCSI controller", but uses the "C" drive option in the boot sequence.

Maybe you can install an OS on the third HD to see if the board tries to boot from it when it is on the HPT366?

bburns · Post by **bburns** » Wed May 07, 2003 8:35 am

Normal, internal HDD case. High quality of course with key-lock. I'm using it for 2 years, works great. The only one problem is that you cannot unplug drive without shutting down system.
Boot sequence is ok.

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Wed May 07, 2003 12:25 pm

bburns wrote:Boot sequence is ok.

Yes, but maybe the BP6 doesn´t handle it the way it should? I would just install some OS (maybe a small linux distro to save time) to the third drive to see what happens. Just an idea;)

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Wed May 07, 2003 1:22 pm

topaz wrote:bburns i think that we are having similar problems with the third and fourth ide channels on the bps6 not being recognized by the os i am not sure if i have raid but when i scan for new hardware none is seen ... where do i find if i have raid installed and is it on the abit official site? t

If you had RAID, you knew it;) RAID with two drives is a configuration in which either both drives are treated as one (improves speed) or one drive is a mirror of the other (improves data safety).

The BP6 controllers are NOT RAID capable. bburns uses an additional HPT370 controller card. The two onboard controllers of the BP6 (standard IDE- slow but rather reliable + HPT366- faster but known to cause problems) do NOT support RAID.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Wed May 07, 2003 3:45 pm

White ones are HPT366 controller and black ones are standard IDE controller.

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