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Win 2000 Boot Failure with IBM HD's
Hello Everybody! OK, here is what I've learned thus far (sorry it's been so long): I ended up using one 40GB drive through the normal ATA100 IDE1 slot, just so I can get the system running. Once I figure all this out, I'm going to reconnect to raid and mirror the drive (RAID 1). Gigabyte... -
Win 2000 Boot Failure with IBM HD's
Thanks! I did get an e-mail from IBM, and they are skeptical that the problem is the drives (and there is no firmware update anyway). Here's the latest development: When I reboot during the win2000 installation, it now boots into a "Trap" error or exception, with a bunch of codes... -
Win 2000 Boot Failure with IBM HD's
Help! I have just assembled an Athlon 1.33 266MHz system with a Gigabyte GA-7DXR mobo (that has Promise RAID ATA100 capabilities) and two IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB hard drives configured as RAID 0 (striped). Using fdisk and format, I have managed to partition the 'drive' into one 80GB drive and...
