ADAPTEC AIC-7986

[blst]

hello,

i am fairly novice when it comes to hardware and especially RAID arrays, but i need to set up what i think is a basic scenario.

i have an older machine with an intel board.

i have 2 drives which i would like to act like one drive. i think the set would be a RAID 1, but i am open to suggestions.

this machine was configured before and now when i try to install a new version of windows, at the set up step it shows to drives rather than one.

i have deleted both partitions and tried again, but it wants to create 2 different drive letters rather than just C.

could anyone help me with this? is there an array config tool that can set this up?

thanks...

[allen2]

The raid card bios should do it. If not the raid card manufacturer should provide a tool to configure it before installing the OS. Ex for HP raid controllers, there is a hp smartstart cd that can help to config your raid array.

[blst]

this adaptec on an intel board.

there is a raid bios but it doesn't really talk about setting up different types of raid arrays.

so basically, i want to set up the machine to have both drives seen as one drive so that i have redundancy across the two drives.

i am far from a hardware expert, much less raid expert so i am looking for basic advice on set up.

if anyone can help, i would indeed appreciate it.

[allen2]

Which intel board ?

[allen2]

The only intel board with this adaptec chip i found was this one : http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/C440GX/

The Manual doesn't say what kind of raid it is but it's raid upgradable (p16). So if you don't have the raid module or extension, you can't create a raid volume.

Also p89 tell how to configure the scsi controller: either the bios or use ezscsi from adaptec (it's free).

Hope it'll help.