Hey all, I've got a mainboard equipped with a Highpoint 372 IDE RAID controller that I'd like to use simply as an extra IDE controller (i.e. not hardware RAID.) If I can get this to work I plan on creating a soft RAID setup between it and a (non-boot) partition on my primary controller. I had considered simply using the secondary controller but I really need to have a CDROM drive on one of the channels and the docs I've read on soft RAID indicate this will really kill performance.
If I turn on RAID support in BIOS the 8.2 installer hangs up right after detecting the controller. If I leave it off DiskDrake (during and after the install) doesn't appear to see the controller or the disk attached to it. I'm guessing I may need to provide some arguments to the boot loader but haven't been able to figure out what they ought to be. My board is an Abit NV7-133R, an nForce 415-D chipset, but Abit has a few other boards with the same Highpoint controlller that use non-Nvidia chipsets. Anyone have any ideas? cheers, ::mark
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