KG7 & DM Bios After Flash
I am posting this on behalf of Sand as he is having problems with his login.
I recently updated my KG7-Raid board to the DM bios and the Highpoint 2.34
bios. All went well. When I went into my Raid bio and reset up my array so
it could now use 128 blocks where b4 the highest was 64. It created fine, no
probs. So I booted into Dos from a floppy and ran Fdisk and even the
freeware replacement for Fdisk too and set up the drive as a Primary Dos
partiton with the entire disk(120[117] gigs) as the drive and it went ok. So
exit, shutdown, then startup again and upon booting when it gets to my Raid
drive I get an error that says "Invalid Media Type", Abort, Retry or Fail.
Welllll @#$%^...I hit abort and Win 98SE continued to progress but never
loaded. It got to the end and said "it is now safe to turn off your
computer". So I try again, same result only I pressed fail this time and
same Windows result. Soooo... I go back in to my Raid bios, break it and
recreate it and reboot and Windows loads fine since , apparently, I didn't
try to Fdisk the Raid again(not yet now anyaway). I retried Fdisking the
array 2-3 time, results were same sooooo.... I'm stuck and stumped. It never
happened in the past and I had been using my Raid drive fine till now. My
Raid looks to be created and running fiine. I just cant seem to get WinDoze
to see it correctly after Fdisk. Any ideas from you techies out there. I'm
no expert on Raid but I'm no dummy though this sure made/makes me feel like
one, lol. Help will be very welcome as I'm trying to upgrade my board with
some stuff and can't till I resolve the Raid issue....
TIA for your comments... Have a good one.
Sand
I recently updated my KG7-Raid board to the DM bios and the Highpoint 2.34
bios. All went well. When I went into my Raid bio and reset up my array so
it could now use 128 blocks where b4 the highest was 64. It created fine, no
probs. So I booted into Dos from a floppy and ran Fdisk and even the
freeware replacement for Fdisk too and set up the drive as a Primary Dos
partiton with the entire disk(120[117] gigs) as the drive and it went ok. So
exit, shutdown, then startup again and upon booting when it gets to my Raid
drive I get an error that says "Invalid Media Type", Abort, Retry or Fail.
Welllll @#$%^...I hit abort and Win 98SE continued to progress but never
loaded. It got to the end and said "it is now safe to turn off your
computer". So I try again, same result only I pressed fail this time and
same Windows result. Soooo... I go back in to my Raid bios, break it and
recreate it and reboot and Windows loads fine since , apparently, I didn't
try to Fdisk the Raid again(not yet now anyaway). I retried Fdisking the
array 2-3 time, results were same sooooo.... I'm stuck and stumped. It never
happened in the past and I had been using my Raid drive fine till now. My
Raid looks to be created and running fiine. I just cant seem to get WinDoze
to see it correctly after Fdisk. Any ideas from you techies out there. I'm
no expert on Raid but I'm no dummy though this sure made/makes me feel like
one, lol. Help will be very welcome as I'm trying to upgrade my board with
some stuff and can't till I resolve the Raid issue....
TIA for your comments... Have a good one.
Sand
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Comments
You want it formated with the same cluster size as block size also usually and that isnt gonna be easy with 128k clusters.
But it does sound like he forgot to format also. The OS won't see it until its formated.
Tex
DOS solved the error. Bigggg Duhhhh on me
formatted the Raid in Windows the 1st time but apparently not... Give my
thanks to all who replied, n you too. I knew the answer was simple but not
stupid of me like this.
use the forums. I even registered again with a new email addy and never got
an activation email but I can "login" under the new nick but still same prob
as old one...Just wanted to let you know...not ignoring the post you did for
me. THANKS!
So you can now login but not post? Can you detail excactly what happens.
email me to make this simpler
Tex
m-k-withers@attbi.com