On 06/05/2012 4:41 AM, W wrote:
After creating the new boot partition, I disconnected the SCSI drives and
attempted to boot from the new partition. Even when I specify the new
partition explicitly as the boot device in the system bios, all attempts to
boot from it give back the error that it is not a system disk, and the boot
process for Windows never starts. Is there a trick to making Compact RAID
the boot device on a Windows system? Perhaps some adjustment needs to be
made into boot.ini? Perhaps I need to explicitly disble BIOS in the
Adaptec host adapter?

There is no BIOS boot environment for the eSATA card I am using, which
appears to be based on the Silicon Image 3124 chipset.

It's a little confusing as to how if you say that there is no BIOS boot
environment on the eSATA card, then how does your BIOS even show them as
available drives to boot from?

If you need a simple, cheap BIOS-equipped eSATA card then I had
purchased one from Bytecc:

Newegg.ca - BYTECC PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card Model BT-PESAPA
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16815283005

It uses a Jmicron controller, it even acts as its own RAID controller,
and it even has an internal PATA connector on it. I've successfully
booted from a single drive attached to it, although I've never attempted
to boot from an externally-attached RAID array.

Yousuf Khan