Confused with Raid Sata drivers

Sata,Raid
Should I install these Drivers?
Which one.
Do I need a raid card?
Building Computer for my wife.Ready to install OS.
I got a floppy with MB.Says drivers for VIA sata raid.
Floppy has two folders Pide and Raid.
Checked with manual but still not sure if I must install
these drivers when installing XP.MB has Integrated dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller that will supply 150MB/s and support RAID 0, RAID 1.
AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHz Socket 754 64-Bit Processor Retail
MSI K8MM-V MS-7142 Motherboard,VIA K8M800-CE + VT8237R Chipset
Western Digital Caviar SE Sata WD-1600JS 160gb 8m-S2JS
ASUS G-Force N6200 128 mb AGP Video Card
DVD-RW DL LightScribe
512 DDR 400 Ram
Have WinXP 64 bit "no legal serial"
Installing WinXP Pro SP2 32 bit "Legal"

Didn't even clic in what raid was about.Duh. In the bios on this board it had to be set as IDE.Under sata I had two settings Raid or IDE.I thought noway its IDE so I went raid.So thanks it worked right away.Didnt even have to install sata drivers at the OS XP install.I just went with it and it worked.This is what I got in device manager.
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
Primary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Primary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Secondary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Secondary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 5.1.2600.2180
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller 5.1.2600.2180
A little confusing but it works great.It also recognized my 160gig HDD.The full 160.I was surprised.

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Promise 20376 SATA Raid Controller Drivers?

Hi I'm trying to install WinXP with an K7N2GM2 - ILSR board and I'm having problems with the SATA drivers I've downloaded (from http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_list.php?part=1&kind=4&CHIP=4&COM=19). The 'make disk' instructions included is a bit awkward but I tried putting the different files on a floppy several different ways, but to no avail. When windows asks for a floppy to install the sata drivers, it reads the disk for a while and returns back to the 'insert a disk and hit ENTER.' I went to Promise's website and download some drivers from there but again to no avail, the drivers included on the CD with the mb have not worked either.
Just to make sure I'm simply not putting the correct files on floppy or not putting them in the proper directory structure, I'll give you an example of what I have put on the floppy:
WinXP <-Folder containing drivers
txtsetup.oem
ULSATA
fasttx2k
and the text files like 'makedisk'
I've also taken all of the files out of the WinXP directory and had all files in the same location A:\ . I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm adept with computers and I know that sata can be finiky, but this one going nowhere fast. Could somebody help? BTW I'm only using one HD, a WD 80GB Sata HD which I had to put in an array ('functioning').

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=398
K7N2G-ILSR
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Boot Priority with Raid and Single Drives.

I thought I would share something that I discovered yesterday after struggling to get a Sata Raid array to play nicely with a single sata drive.
Sorry if this is already widely known but I couldn’t find any reference to it.
Setup:
MSI K8N Platinum SLI
2x 160GB Maxtor DM10 Raid0 Array (Windows)
1x 160GB Maxtor DM10 Single Drive (Backup)
The main issue I was having was no matter how I setup the array and what I set as the first boot device windows would always try to boot from the single drive.
The array was set to bootable when it was created, and it set to be the first device under the hard disk boot priority sub menu.
If I tried installing windows with the single drive plugged it would always be seen as C: drive and would copy the boot files here even if I selected D: (array) as install location.
If I tried unplugging the single drive and installing windows, it install and boot correctly from the array.
But as soon as I plugged the single drive back in windows would look for the boot files on it and tell me there was an error and no boot files could be found.
When looking through the bios I noticed a setting called “Extended IDE Drive”, this makes the drive appear as an IDE drive so that there is no need to install the sata driver F6 on install.
Once I set this to No/None the drive disappeared from the bios but after a reboot windows saw the drive correctly and allowed me to install windows to the array which was now correctly drive C:
Once windows was installed, the drive appears under the raid controller same as the array drives.
The drive is fully accessible and working natively with the sata drivers installed.

Quote from: jarvo on 30-January-07, 04:38:13
Yeah, not matter what the HDD order is winxp always tries to boot from the single drive when its plugged in.
Not sure if this only happens to me or if other people have had similar issues.
IDE drivers becomes automatically as 1st HDD. you need to switch them.
have you arranged hard disk boot priority? (not main priority)
have a try to push "F8" or "F11" during post to popup menu, and choice correct HDD to boot from there.

[SOLVED]Where are the sata drivers?

Hi people,
I just bought a brandnew msi 770-C45 mainboard and want to install XP Pro.
Now I know that you have to make a floppy with the sata drivers, but where are they? With every sata driver I tried XP only see 131Gb instead of the 320Gb.
When I try a customized XP CD with integrated SATA drivers it work perfectly.
Unfortunately after research I was not able to extract the sata drivers from the CD.
Only I don't want customized XP, but the original XP.
I also tried to search on the chipset, but no succeed.
Normally they are on the CD. I tried every SATA/RAID folder and copy it to a floppy (per folder separatedly ofcourse ) I tried the following folders:
H:\ChipSet\AMD\XP\SBDrv\SATA (most likely, but strange that they talk about putting a sata card into the system)
H:\RAID\Silicon_Image (tried all the three folders: SIL3114, SIL3132 and 3531)
If you know where I can find the right drivers for a clean XP Pro 32bit install or which files to use, would be great!
Thanks in advance :-)

Quote from: alcapino on 28-August-09, 22:49:15
OK, thanks for the answers guys! :-)
First post of Svet didn´t had the sentence ¨Use XP installation disk with SP2 or SP3 included/integrated¨.
That was why I asked further. The normal XP here with me doesn´t has any SP onboard.
I will slipstream the XP Pro with SP2 and try it.
Again thanks!
EDIT: Works like a charm :D XP is installing on my sata, thanks dudes , you
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First post of Svet didn´t had the sentence ¨Use XP installation disk with SP2 or SP3 included/integrated¨.
That was why I asked further.
What sentence you expect? :D
I've told you what to do to fix it.

Help the unknowing with Raid- cant install windows!

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K7N2GM-V SATA Drivers

Purchased the subject MB and am atttempting to install XP to a WD 80gb serial harddrive. OS install states I must load SATA drivers however I can't locate any such animal.
Where do I find the drivers? Hard drive is a Western digital WD800JB if that matters.
Also is there anything special I need to do to make HD the boot drive?
Thanks M Bruns

Your mobo should come with the SATA drivers (if it's an MSI mobo, of corse).
Usually, it comes on a floppy disk.
Edyros!

K7N2 ILSR sata drivers.

Anyone have the floppy disk with the drivers for this thing?
My driver section on xp just SERIOUSLY crashed. I can't even get into Device manager.
Not even when trying to get in during Safe Mode.....
This sucks bigtime.
Had nothing but problems since i installed the SP2, i really dont know why, installed
all the drivers for everything on my pc immediately after i got it. just like i should.
I cant even uninstall sp2 now..... yippie :-P
I just need the floppy disk with the SATA drivers so that i can format the damn thing and reinstall everything. :-/

hello welcome to the forum.
here its driver which you are searching for
http://www.comebackandplay.com:8080/~jay/downloadfiles/FastTrak_S150_TX_Series_Windows_Driver_1.00.0.37.zip
in MSI site drivers is x.xx.x.21 version(older)
i have your mobo its great dont have any problems with SP2 or other problems
suggest reinstall windows with included SP2 on it. manual SP2 install decrease system perfomance.
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fasttx2k
README.TXT(not really need )
txtsetup.oem
and WinXP directory(included all files in this directory) if you are using XP
and etc for other OS.

P965 won't boot DVD from Intel SATA with RAID enabled

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Maesus
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Jack the Newbie
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Can anyone help out???
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Interesting problem with RAID, Windows 2008 server, and Ubuntu

sooooo, i got the system working and linux loved it. just adored it.
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thanks guys.

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Also, my AEC A6880 is giving me a ROM expansion error, even though, in both OSes it can be seen....usualy. I just want to fix it
lastly, my LSI PCI-E scsi adapter is not being seen at ALL.
Turn off onboard raid ctrl 1st. There are conflicting.
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I enabled the PCI Bus SATA to be Master in the BIOS, and then Windows Server 2008 said that it could not determine if the drive was bootable.
Known issue, partition mess:
http://www.google.bg/search?hl=bg&ei=W-l3Sq_4NMbdsgbHnKmmBQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=windows+cannot+determine+if+this+drive+has+a+valid+system+volume+on+it.&spell=1
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I inserted a windows xp disk, destroyed the RAID, and then installed the software on a NEW disk. While it installed fine, it gave me an IRQL_not_less_than_or_equal error. It boots in safe mode, but no where else. I tried installing the NVRAID and MCP55 drivers in safemode and what not, but still, it refused to cooperate.
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Hi,
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Hello Swen,
Glad to see you made it back to this forum after the database program they experienced last night. Tried to send you a personal message this morning but you were not even in the database anymore. Hope you got my last message.
You do not need to install SATA drivers with F6 during windows installation. The F6 step described in your manual is only needed if you intend to install your operating system to a SATA drive or a RAID set up. If your operating system is being install to IDE drive then your SATA driver can be installed later on after you got windows on board as part of the Nvidia 5.10 drivers package. If you are really intending to install your operating system to a SATA drive then go to this thread: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=76886.0
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Whatever you do make sure that you get the latest Nvidia 5.10 drivers package from the Nvidia site itself. I believe that MSI site still only offers version 5.03.
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