The computer rebooted and I got a blue screen when Window XP tried to start. I did some research on this and could not get past the blue screen. I connected my master (C:\) drive to the motherboard and tired to install every driver I could find for the Adaptec 1200a card with no success, it may too old for my motherboard or XP. It didn't show up in XP as an Adptec 1200a, it shows up as an HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID CONTROLER.
I had the second drive working as a bootable drive but when I tried to run both drives at the same time, one as the master and one as the slave, window changed something and I lost it.
I reformated the second drive and I'm now using the Adaptec 1200a card to rebiuld the array which will give me my bootable second drive back. I'm going to leave the second bootable drive unplugged in the computer as a back up. If I have a C:\ drive failer I'll have to take my rack mount computer apart BUT at least I have a bootable second drive in the machine.
I feel like I had to go around my elbow to get to my a** hole but at least I have a bootable second drive in my machine.
I've learned that I can get a second bootable drive with Ghost (Ghost always crashes the first time I open it) or Aconis but I feel raid is what I need. I'm going to look into a newer Raid card.
Thanks again Beavis for sending me the Adaptec 1200a card. It didn't work correctly for me but I'm one step closer to having a reliable backup that will work without taking my computer apart to switch drives.
Jim
