"philo" wrote in message
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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.

What I am trying to explain is that I did NOT use Windows software RAID to
build the volume. I am using hardware RAID and Windows XP sees the RAID 5
array as a single Basic Disk with a single bootable Active Simple Partition.

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W