
RC200 FAQ
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4. Question:
I purchased an RC-200 ATA-133 2-Port PCI Adapter with RAID from Newegg.com. I installed this card
into
a brand-new Acer computer, also from Newegg. The computer is running Windows XP Home on an
80 GB SATA drive attached to the motherboard. I installed the RC-200 card into an available PCI slot on
the motherboard and attached two
320 GB Western Digital IDE drives, one for each channel. I set the
jumpers for both drives as master, as stated in the manual. Then I turned the whole setup on. The RAID
card correctly recognized both 320 GB drives in the BIOS. I pushed F3 to configure the array and set the
drives up to mirror each other (RAID 1). After saving these settings, the computer restarted. However,
once the computer moved past this point in the BIOS (after displaying the status of the array), the
screen was simply blank with a blinking cursor at the top-left of the screen. It didn't boot into Windows
XP at all. I checked the BIOS settings on the motherboard, to make sure that it wasn't trying to boot
from these drives. This didn't help, it was still set to boot off the original 80 GB drive. I turned off the
computer and unplugged both 320 GB drives from the RAID card, but left the card in the PCI slot. This
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