I can't see my RAID drives - SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI RAID card

[kirklt]

I can't see my RAID drives.

I recently purchased a SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI RAID card.

I took an 160GB Maxtor Diamondmax Drive I had and purchased a identical one withthe intent of mirroring the existing data (RAID 1).

The existing drive was partitioned four times and showed up as 4 drives on "My Computer". This drive was installed to Dev Idx 0. The new drive is installed to Dev Idx 2.

Another 40GB drive is installed to the IDE ribbon on the motherboard, and is used for booting. I am running windows XP on the boot drive.

Both drives show as "Current" under state in the "SilCfg for Medley" program under RAID set 0.

The problem is that I cannot see the RAID drives in "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. How am I supposed to access the data in the new RAID set?


kirk@projwest.com


http://www.projwest.com/raidscreen1.JPG

http://www.projwest.com/raidscreen2.JPG

[Flintstone]

You show the hardware, i.e. the controller card and the drives, but they haven't been assigned drive letters through disk management is my guess. HOWEVER, attempting to assign them drive letters will probably force you to format the drives and start fresh as the data wasn't deposited while attached to the controller card and is now unreadable while attached to the card. If you first hook the old 160 GB drive back up to the MB controller and get the data off of it, then put it back on the SIIG card with the other drive and format the both of the raid 1 disks while attached to the card, all should be good and you can then rewrite the data to the mirrored array.

That's how it appears on the surface but I've been watching football and drinking a few beers so if I'm wrong, anyone that hasn't had as many beers as me please correct me!! ;D

[EQuito]

The problem is that I cannot see the RAID drives in "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. How am I supposed to access the data in the new RAID set?If that's a new RAID array you've just created it won't have any data left.
Right click my computer, manage, disk management and you'll get a message to write a signature to the new drive/array, say yes but DO NOT convert to dynamic.
After that, the drive/array will have a letter but you need to format first in order to use it.

Good luck!