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Hi i've been working on this all day and for a couple days last week. I had a previous post here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;?do=findComment&comment=1577406 on my previous setup that did not work. I also posted this topic in the new users lounge but no body responded so i'll repost here. I basically want to have two raid controlled drives for windows 7 and another drive for osx and be able to view my windows drive in osx. So here's the problem

 

I used to use an on board RAID that wasn't osx supported. I bought a Sil 3132 raid controller and installed windows to the drives it controls. Now I disconnected the RAID controller and when I boot from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and put in the snow leopard cd I get a EBIOS sectors 0x09 error. Now previously when I had my other on board RAID setup and tried to install I got the same error. When I disconnected the drives and switched to AHCI it worked and it installed fine. But for some reason now (when everything is basically the same as when it worked) I get that error again. The only thing I have done is install windows to the drive I am installing osx to and put in my RAID controller set it up and installed windows (however when I try to install osx I have it disconeected). Do you think somehow when I installed the RAID controller it is linked to my BIOS or osx thinks the RAID controller is still in there shomehow?

 

I have all the correct BIOS settings as I had when it worked. I have a p5k deluxe motherboard 2x500gb connected to RAID0 sil 3132 controller and a 1tb drive that i plan to install osx onto. I have already bought this drive and card in hopes of this working getting pretty frustrated at this point. Any help at all would be great thanks.

*UPDATE* Just for anyone that is having a similar problem. I finally figured it out. It had nothing to do with the new RAID controller. For some reason when I formatted my new drive (the one osx86 is to be installed on) to NTFS so i could back up some windows files osx installer would not start. I attached the drive to another computer and deleted everything and did not format. Put it into my osx86 box walla snow leopard installer opens fine with no more EBIOS error.

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