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I was able to get the VIA VT8237 to work by jumping the SATA-2 drives into "150 MB/s mode". I have WD 640 GB drives (WD6400AAKS)

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It was labeled UNRAID when I tried it first (and it didn't work). I re-labeled it UNRAID and it works now. Before this I set up an old HD to boot with UNRAID. I was getting ready to buy a new motherboard and getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing. It took me several hours to get the booting part straightened out, I tried all kinds of motherboard settings and kicker CDs, floppies, etc.

This worked for me, I had to format the flash drive as FAT (instead of FAT32) in order to boot into it (all other instructions for making a flash UNRAID disk remain the same). I got the kicker floppy images from here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lou.greyfaulk/ and only had to modify autoexec.bat. I'm not sure which floppy image I used, there are 3 and each has different USB drivers. As you're booting from the floppy it will tell you it discovered your memory stick (if you're using the correct floppy image). If it doesn't, try a different floppy image. The USB boot is a bit slower than I anticipated. ____________________ Edit: back to the drawing board. While it boots from the flash drive it can't find the UNRAID volume.

I installed unRAID on my Windows box using VMware. The basic premise was to create a machine with 4 virtual IDE hard disks. I booted with a DOS floppy ISO from bootdisk.com and partitioned the first HD using fdisk. I then mounted the first virtual IDE HD from within XP and formatted it as FAT32 (you can mount it as a drive from VMware if you stop the VM and double-click the HD0). You can use syslinux -f against the drive letter here to make the first virtual IDE bootable. Afterwards, copy the unRAID OS files to the same drive. You also need to make the NIC an e1000, add the two lines below to your VMware .VMX file making sure to replace any similar lines with these. ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged" All the virtual HDs should look similar to this in the .VMX file. ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.deviceType = "disk" ide0:0.filename = "disk0.vmdk" Make sure to dismount the HD0 in Windows before starting the VM or you will get errors. Forgot to mention, make sure to label HD0 as UNRAID.