[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

I am really stuck with this guys and need some help. I have tried Fernando_1's way twice and dale5605's way once. All three attempts have ended in repeated bluescreens.

I have,

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (BIOS 1011 / nVraid v4.81)

A64 3500+ Venice

2x Western Digital 74gb Raptors

I have tried using the 6.66 package of nForce4 drivers, included the pataraid directory contents in the OemDir, integrated the sataraid and sata_ide drivers with nLite (1.0 b6), etc. I can't figure out what I could be doing wrong.

I can't believe how hard it is to get a stripe working with my raptors, I have never had so much trouble with a raid array before.

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Tweakin, pay attention you have ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe no DFI !!!

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

Hi Willdoicu,

thank you very much for your posting.

Your comment verifies, that the method described in my first post works even with mainboards, which have an nForce3 chipset.

For other users with an Nforce3 SataRaid or PataRaid system would it be very helpfull, if you would answer the following questions:

1. Do you have an nVRaid array with S-ATA drives or P-ATA drives?

2. Which nForce chipset driver version did you use?

3. Which subfolder (SATARAID or PATARAID) did you use, when you integrated the textmode drivers?

4. Did you change something within the TEXTSETUP.OEM file? If yes, what?

CU

Fernando

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my answers :

1. I have a nVRaid array with S-ATA drives

2. I've used nForce Win2K/XP driver package 6.66 for SATARAID,PATARAID and Sataide. I was integrated also nForce drivers from package 5.10 for Ethernet, Gart, MemCtl, SMBus.

3. I've use subfolders "sata_ide" and "sataraid" to integrate and "pataraid" in \$OEM$\$$\OEMDIR.

4.yes I-ve changed "inf = d1, nvraid.inf" with "inf = d1, nvatabus.inf" on "[Files.scsi.BUSDRV]" section from SATARAID subfolder.

That is all. Thank you again !!!

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

Yeeehaw !!!

Thanks a lot Fernando 1, works everithig fine with Asus K8N (Nforce3), I just folow your first post. Great job !!!