Lupin

I’ve had a few strange windows things happening lately. Namely auto play totally fucking up. With no apparent fix. What I thought was 1st a memory error came back to haunt me. And with ML just around the corner I thought it might be time for a clean up.

So I back up everything I can think of to another drive, and decided to make the change to xp64. As I’m not one to format / reinstall at the drop of a hat, my install is nearly 2 years old. So I decided to make the plunge.

The install went sweet, but when it came to get all the info back that’s where the problems started. I had backed up all the info to a drive that was on my raid controller. XP did not detect the raid controller, no big deal, Ill just head off to the gigabyte site and grab it.

Then problem 1 arises. XP didn’t pick up my LAN card. So a quick cable swap fixes that. So I start downloading the RAID drivers. Install them and still nothing. Then after a bit more of a look I find they are the SATA RAID drivers. So where the hell are the IDE RAID ones? After a lot of looking and forum searching, it appears that they just decided not to make them as most people use SATA. Well I have 3 drives that are on my raid, so I need them to work.

The short work around was to swap the IDE’s around to put them all on the one controller and stick in my old IDE card.

So now it looks like I have to use some open source drivers to get my IDE raid working