Slow boot with Promise RAID TX2000

[Vasco 0]

I have a RAID controller from Promise (TX2000). When I boot the system it says "scanning IDE drives......". This takes over 20 seconds before switching to the RAID controller and boot up.

 

Is there a way to make the boot-up-process faster? In the BIOS I chose SCSI as first boot device. Anything else I deactivated (Floppy, IDE etc.)

 

My system:

ASUS A7N8X nForce2

Athlon XP 2600+, not o/c'ed

2 x 512 MB DDRAM PC-3200 CL3 (Apacer)

MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4400

Acer DVD 16x

Plextor CD-writer 48x

Promise FastTrak TX2000

2 x WD 1200JB HD

PS Enermax 350W

Sound onboard (nVidia)

Network onboard (3Com)

WindowsXP Pro, SP 1

[sapiens74 0]

Raid drives are notoriously slow at boot.

 

You gotta learn to live with it.

[Vasco 0]

OK thanks

 

I thought maybe there is a way to make it faster. But it seems to be normal. Thanks again

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

U can change your IDE driver in your bios to "manual" this wil save the bios from looking for the drives and it knows they are there so it skips that part at least.

[Vasco 0]

Thanks for the tip, have to try it when I'm at home.

[t1n0m3n 0]

Yeah, that seems to happen with WD drives.

You can make it be faster if you connect a HD to all channels.

Before I had WD drives connected to my TX2, I had 2 Seagate Barracuda 4's and they did not seem to have that problem.

[Vasco 0]

Connect a HD to all channels? Do you mean I should install additional HDs and connect them to the IDE to make the boot-up faster? 8)

[t1n0m3n 0]

Oh, I reread your post....

This is happening BEFORE your card tries to post correct?

I would just disable the onboard IDE ports that you are not using (set the IDE from auto to none)

[adamvjackson 0]

Check the PnP setting in the BIOS, and also update to the latest firmware.