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Promise Controller in 2000

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by phil 1 view

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A client of mine wants to mirror two hard drives. Their IDE scheme looks like this:
2 cdroms
3 hard drives (all WD 20 gig 7200 rpm)
1 zip drive

They really want to run 2000 as their OS. So I installed a Promise Controller card that has the mirroring support. The problem that I'm having is that when windows 2000 goes to load the kernal, the OS bombs. As long as they are using the promise card the OS will not load. Any help?

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by pan 13 x

do this as the setup.
Primary ide 1 harddrive (operating system)
Primary ide 2 Cdrom
Sec ide 1 other cdrom
sec ide 2 zip drive

install windows with sp2 installed .
installed the drivers for the raid controller card. Go to the web and download the latest driver.
Shut down the system
install the card and reboot. If blue screen boot in safe mode and reinstall drivers.
I run two servers and one desktop all having promise ide raid cards and never had a problem since the install.

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