Slight problem with my unattended install

[Guest no_oc]

Hello everyone, mind giving me a helping hand?

I did all the searching, reading, google and research, yet all to no avail.

I recently bought myself a Asus A8N-E motherboard, and had planned to put my 2 Western Digital Raptors there in RAID0. Yet it turned out it couldn't be done properly with Nvidia's RAID. Then, naturally, the motherboard show me it's full potential, and fried it's own BIOS for no reason (no overclocking or anything what could've caused it). Propably a broken board from the start, who knows. Anyway, then I headed back to store and RMA'd the Asus, while bought myself DFI Lanparty UT Nf4 SLI-Dr -board. This motherboard seems very good to me, as it includes a reliable partner: Silicon Image SATA/RAID controller.

So, off to make myself a new CD, since I'm just one of them new school people, who wouldn't wan't a floppy drive to ruin a good looking rig.

Problem came up with choosing the right driverset for the controller. SiI3114r and/or SiI3114r5? That's the question. I included both for the CD I made, and the Windows XP setup wouldn't see them Raptors as one striped set, but as two individual HD's. So, clear the disks, no partitions or anything, redo the stripe set and doublecheck it's ok with the controller. Yet the Windows setup still would see them in two.

So, how actually does this go? I woudl've wanted to go with slipstreaming and then using the txtsetup.sif/winnt.sif method, but I simply wasn't able pinpoint wich driverfiles exactly I needed. Setup.sif method isn't all clear to me, since I've never used it before. So that left me with no other option, than using nLite (excellent program btw, cudos to the authors!), and the result is shown above.

Where to? How would that striped set get seen properly in Windows setup? Is it an issue with SiI3114r/r5 driver? Use both or just one? Could there be a way to eliminate RAID5 option from BIOS (didn't find it), so I would only need to use that SiI3114r driver (and what files exactly, if so)?

Sorry for beeing such a newbie.

Edited July 19, 2005 by no_oc

[Guest no_oc]

This is strange, I've cleared both Raptors and made a perfectly clear and failsafe stripe set setup. And no, Windows won't see 'em properly.

Would any of you know what on earth I could do to solve this on my CD?

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

What driver versions are you using? Please post your HWIDs (check my sig for a tool).

[Guest no_oc]

Hey Bâshrat the Sneaky and thanks for your reply.

Will be checking them HWID's today, when I get home.

Is there any nifty trick to disable RAID5 option from SiI3114 chip, and use it as "plain" SATA/RAID, enabling only RAID0+1? I'd think that would exclude them RAID5 drivers from the CD, thus hopefully solve the problem I got.

EDIT: here's them HWID's:

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D52&SUBSYS_03021002&REV_00\4&243D7BD0&0&0070: RADEON X850 XT  
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5D72&SUBSYS_03031002&REV_00\4&243D7BD0&0&0170: RADEON X850 XT Secondary 
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1100&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C0: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1101&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C1: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1102&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C2: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1103&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C3: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3114&SUBSYS_71141095&REV_02\4&13699180&0&4048: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
PCI\VEN_10B7&DEV_9200&SUBSYS_100010B7&REV_78\4&13699180&0&3848: 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0050&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&08: PCI standard ISA bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0052&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&09: NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0053&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&30: Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0054&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&38: Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0055&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&40: Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0059&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&20: Realtek AC'97 Audio
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005A&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&10: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005B&SUBSYS_CB8410DE&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&11: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005C&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&48: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&58: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&60: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&68: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&70: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005E&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&00: nForce4 HyperTransport Bridge
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0004&SUBSYS_20021102&REV_04\4&13699180&0&3048: Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_4001&SUBSYS_00101102&REV_04\4&13699180&0&3248: OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7003&SUBSYS_00401102&REV_04\4&13699180&0&3148: Creative Game Port
PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_4320&SUBSYS_100A15BD&REV_13\4&13699180&0&5048: Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

(That 3Com NIC is about to get removed, as it wouldn't work properly with any driver)

Wanted all, or just them SATA/RAID related?

Edited July 22, 2005 by no_oc

[Guest no_oc]

*BUMP*

Ya'll propably missed that EDIT above.