Is there a collection of drivers for RAID somewhere?

[stilly]

Time and time again I see that when you stray from the norm you get hit with obstacles left and right.

So I do not have a 4 port RAID controller card so I can not do 4 drives in a RAID 10 setup. Bummer.

I will do the next best thing, Install 2 SSD 850 120GB drives on the motherboard with the controller that came with it.

Done. So It was simple enough to make a RAID 1 array with 2 of the 4 devices and then have them FUNCTIONAL and ready to go.

Then along comes windows 7. I dunno, maybe it is my older copy of windows 7 "48 in 1" that is the issue here but I think not. It rejected the drivers that I pulled from the website, but I think I might have grabbed the wrong drivers, I think I MIGHT now have the proper drivers, but in the event that I do not, I was thinking, well at least it sees BOTH of the 850 drives, but that does me no good for this project.

It would be nice to have a disk that had all or most of the RAID drivers on it just for doing windows installed. It would prolly be good for Linux installs too.

Are there any such places around that have a collection of drivers for SATA or RAID or SOUND or anything? This is 2015 and the internet is everywhere. It is ashamed if such a thing does not exist in some basement in Russia or something... :\

BTW, ANOTHER thing MS should have fixed. Windows 7 installation must be pointed at the CORRET driver folder and it does NOT search subfolders... :\

[ke6guj]

why are you using a '48 in 1' copy of Windows 7 for a customer build? does a lawyer really want to be using a pirated copy of Windows 7? you should be purchasing a licensed copy and charging her for it.

if you have a legal Win7 key but don't have the install files, I"m pretty sure you can still DL an ISO directly from Microsoft that will work properly.

Still don't know why you are messing with RAID for what sounds like it is just a basic desktop computer setup.

[yellowsulphur]

I don't use it, but intel is the sata/raid controller my motherboard uses and they supply all necessary drivers

[dwl]

+1 to ke6guj's comments

Regarding the raid drivers, the motherboard manufacturer or the controller manufacturer are the best driver sources for a hardware based solution.

[stonith3901]

Time and time again I see that when you stray from the norm you get hit with obstacles left and right.



So I do not have a 4 port RAID controller card so I can not do 4 drives in a RAID 10 setup. Bummer.



I will do the next best thing, Install 2 SSD 850 120GB drives on the motherboard with the controller that came with it.



Done. So It was simple enough to make a RAID 1 array with 2 of the 4 devices and then have them FUNCTIONAL and ready to go.



Then along comes windows 7. I dunno, maybe it is my older copy of windows 7 "48 in 1" that is the issue here but I think not. It rejected the drivers that I pulled from the website, but I think I might have grabbed the wrong drivers, I think I MIGHT now have the proper drivers, but in the event that I do not, I was thinking, well at least it sees BOTH of the 850 drives, but that does me no good for this project.



It would be nice to have a disk that had all or most of the RAID drivers on it just for doing windows installed. It would prolly be good for Linux installs too.



Are there any such places around that have a collection of drivers for SATA or RAID or SOUND or anything? This is 2015 and the internet is everywhere. It is ashamed if such a thing does not exist in some basement in Russia or something... :\



BTW, ANOTHER thing MS should have fixed. Windows 7 installation must be pointed at the CORRET driver folder and it does NOT search subfolders... :\

Any decent raid controller would be in the kernel of a Linux OS not presented as a module but loaded within the boot image of the kernel. Usually your enterprise RAID controllers, Intel, 3ware, etc. Generally you would want to see if your RAID controller is compatible with your nix OS before you purchase it. When I use to use hardware RAID controllers I had great experiences with 3ware with Linux when dealing with personal computers and not enterprise servers.

Personally, its software raid (mdadm), LVM, and XFS filesystem. Or ZFS, but that is another topic that is out of scope. This gives me the capabilities of growing storage as bigger mediums are available and extend my filesystem. You can extend in windows as well, there are certain caveats.

As for windows, if you are reinstalling, you should be going to the manufacturer's website and downloading the latest drivers. But I dont roll out lots of PCs, I roll out plenty of virt images. So my virtuals dont have to deal with various hardware differences.

Back to your windows problem. Windows does not do software RAID from my understanding like Linux does. You will have to get a RAID controller that is hardware either as a standalone or supported by your motherboard. Seems like your motherboard does not support RAID or you did not configure that subset before it is introduced to the windows operating system. If you see two drives, then you got the correct drivers, but it is two separate drives. There should be a section in the BIOS or POST that lets to create a RAID array.