On 05/07/2012 12:03 AM, W wrote:
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On 05/06/2012 05:43 PM, W wrote:
Can someone recommend an eSATA PCI host adapter that has a built in BIOS
that can be configured in a preboot environment to make the card the
boot
device on the system?

Ideally the card should have four eSATA ports and supports multiple SATA
drives on each connection.

You missed the point.

If you cloned your old system to a raid
there will be no reference to the raid signature in boot.ini
as you were previously booting from a simple volume

Since the destination is a hardware raid, it is seen by the OS as a basic
disk, just as the source was. I am creating simple volumes on both source
and destination. From the OS point of view it is the 0 partition on the 0
disk.

Which parameter in boot.ini do you think needs to be changed? You might be
right, but it is not obvious to me which adjustment to make.

In addition, the request you are responding to above is independent of any
resolution based on boot.ini. It would simply be nice to have an adapter
that has a configuration environment that can be called up in a pre boot
environment. I could at least make explicit to the adapter that it should
try to be the boot adapter.




Although I know your system will not be able to boot until boot.ini
references the RAID signature, rather than a simple volume...I have no
idea how Windows actually assigns the signature.


This might explain how to rebuild boot.ini

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980



Here is an example of what a "signature" looks like

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980

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