Hey all,
I have an abit AW9D-MAX and connected to sata ports 5 and 6 are two WD Raptor 150GB drives in raid 0 (using the Sil3132 raid feature). (I'm using ports 5 and 6 because i have a 1.5TB raid5 array on ports 1-4).
Because I'm booting off a RAID array, windows needs the drivers on installation. The latest drivers I can find are from the silicon image site (siliconimage.com, just search for SiI3132 - PCI Express (1x) to 2 Port SATA300. I'd post the URL but new users can't).
When it comes to booting into my new vista installation for the first time, it hangs. On screen is the stuck progress bar.
I figured that the reason for this might be that the driver that windows uses is the "SiI 3132 32-bit Windows SATARAID5 Driver" is marked as supporting vista beta 2 (NOT RTM like other drivers on that page).
I've tried the x86 and the x64 versions of the installer with the appropriate drivers, but the same always happens.
XP sp2 works just fine on this computer.
Any ideas? Is this driver ok for vista RTM? Could it be some other reason?
Will