Raid or no Raid

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Rob, thanks for you help. I have a saved readout from Belarc
Advisor before
the drive corrupted. But that readout is on a work computer. (not
available
now) I did go in today but mainly to load missing software on the
new C:.
I did the Control A to bring up the LSI Logic config page but
didn't know
how to interpret it. I'll stick the old/bad drive in another
computer and see
if I can determine if it had 2 active partitions. Even after it
quit booting I
could use BartPE to look around on it. (ran chkdsk /f and there
were
many many bad files)
The history of this computer is like I said earlier to encode
video. The
person who installed the extra drives is long gone so can't ask
him. But
it was set up to encode to the E: drive. (the missing drive) So I'm
guessing
that the E: drive was the fastest drive in the machine. And
therefore the
SCSI drive. Or at least one of them. I doubt he would have set it
up to
mirror as loosing data on these drives is not a big deal.
Device manager has unknown device for SCSI Controller. I should
have
mentioned that earlier.

Your old disk may also have a C: and D: partition on it. That would
make
the partition on the SCSI drive(s) the E: disk in the original
config. If
you install a brand new config on a new IDE disk with just a C:
partition, any other detected partition would become D:.

Are you sure you have an LSI Logic card? Control-A is usually for
Adaptec
cards.

On older systems, Dell used to offer only floppy disk images. It
insists
on unpacking the image to a 1.44MB floppy, after which you can the
load
the driver from it. Your best option is to find another computer that
has
a floppy drive, generate the floppy, and then transfer the files on
it to
your system using a CD, USB key or across a network. In device
manager
you can then point it to the location of the files.

Rob

Thanks again Rob. I will do the floppy load on Tuesday.
Also will install the old drive in another computer and look for
partitions.

Dan

All is well.
I extracted the downloaded driver to floppy and copied those files to the
problem computer. Pointed device manager to this folder and the SCSI
driver
was installed and immediately I had my missing drive back. (no restart)
Seems so simple looking back. The fact that the driver insisted on
extracting to floppy confused me.
This is text from the driver "version.txt" file:

Title : SCSI non-RAID:Ultra320 SCSI Controller Driver
Version : A00
OEM Name : LSI Logic
OEM V er : 1.08.15
Compute rs : Precision - 650
OS : Windows XP
Languages : English

I had a RAID and non-RAID version and just guessed non-RAID.
Because it's working I assume that was the correct guess.

Doesn't necessarily mean it wouldn't work if you used the raid driver.

What still baffles me is that it could see the other SCSI drive and not
the
'missing' one.
AFAIK the NT flavors of Windows need a driver to see drives, whether
they are BIOS included or not where in Win9x the drive would still be seen
through BIOS. Maybe this changed when Win9x and WinNT were crossed?
One explanation could then be that the drive seen is included in the BIOS
scan and the other is not.

Anyone -including OP- that can shed light on that?

Thanks again for the help.

Won't be able to check bios until Tuesday but I do "sort of" recall seeing
another drive in bios but was confused as to whether it was just the DVD/CD
drive. During the post when the SCSI load came up it mentioned the drive
size of only the one drive. Didn't know what to make of that. But I don't
have details at the moment. Again... trying to remember... I think the drive
that noted size was the drive that was missing from WinXP Pro. So just
speculating now.
The bios on this Dell had very limited info on the hard drives. In the past
I remember seeing drive size, cylinders and more. Only size and name shows
in this bios.

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Re: Raid or no Raid - 04-06-2007 , 07:49 PM