Windows Vista And Areca 1230 RAID Controller

> You will have to wait until Areca publishes drivers for
> Vista. There is nothing you can do without the necessary
> drivers optimized for Vista.
>
>
> Amit. wrote:

> > I have been trying o install Windows Vista on my machine and havent been
> > successful thus far. The following are my machine specs.
> >
> > ASUS P5W DH MotherBoard (Intel 975X)
> > Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (overclocked to 3.06GHz)
> > 2GB Crossair 8500 DDR2-1066
> > Areca ARC-1230 Raid Controller (12 port with 12 HDDs connected
> > C Drive (4 x 74GB WD Raptors) Raid 0
> > D Drive (8 x 500GB Seagate 7200.10) Raid 5
> > ATI X1900 GT Radeon 256MB
> >
> > I get to the point where i am asked to load the drivers for my hard drives
> > and Vista can successfully find the drivers and does load them. However, it
> > cannot seem to find any hard drives and just seems to be in a constant loop
> > (in an attempt to find any connected hard drives.
> >
> > I have tried all possible iterations of drivers provided by Areca but in
> > vain. The following is a Quote from the Areca Support Site...
> >
> > "2. These driver do not get the Vista signature yet, you may reject from
> > Vista 64 bits system driver install. When the system reboot, you can push F8
> > key function for using the unsigned driver. The drivers of x86 32 have no
> > these limitation in Vista 32bits Beta2 platform. You can find the Windows
> > 2003 driver in our ftp site:
> > ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Windows/Driver/"
> >
> > I have emailed the Areca support as well hoping to get some insight to what
> > the problem might be.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >

>

> Fair Enuf...however just wanted to point out that I could do this about 3-4
> months ago with the Beta releases of Vista (even before beta 2 or RC1)
>
> "Theo" wrote:
>

>> You will have to wait until Areca publishes drivers for
>> Vista. There is nothing you can do without the necessary
>> drivers optimized for Vista.
>>
>>
>> Amit. wrote:

>>> I have been trying o install Windows Vista on my machine and havent been
>>> successful thus far. The following are my machine specs.
>>>
>>> ASUS P5W DH MotherBoard (Intel 975X)
>>> Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (overclocked to 3.06GHz)
>>> 2GB Crossair 8500 DDR2-1066
>>> Areca ARC-1230 Raid Controller (12 port with 12 HDDs connected
>>> C Drive (4 x 74GB WD Raptors) Raid 0
>>> D Drive (8 x 500GB Seagate 7200.10) Raid 5
>>> ATI X1900 GT Radeon 256MB
>>>
>>> I get to the point where i am asked to load the drivers for my hard drives
>>> and Vista can successfully find the drivers and does load them. However, it
>>> cannot seem to find any hard drives and just seems to be in a constant loop
>>> (in an attempt to find any connected hard drives.
>>>
>>> I have tried all possible iterations of drivers provided by Areca but in
>>> vain. The following is a Quote from the Areca Support Site...
>>>
>>> "2. These driver do not get the Vista signature yet, you may reject from
>>> Vista 64 bits system driver install. When the system reboot, you can push F8
>>> key function for using the unsigned driver. The drivers of x86 32 have no
>>> these limitation in Vista 32bits Beta2 platform. You can find the Windows
>>> 2003 driver in our ftp site:
>>> ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Windows/Driver/"
>>>
>>> I have emailed the Areca support as well hoping to get some insight to what
>>> the problem might be.
>>>
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>