This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing
Vista on. I discovered that on both (different motherboards, CPUs, HDs)
Vista reverses HD order during install. I know exactly what HD is
connected to SATA socket 1 (socket 0 is for SATA DVD writer) and which is
connected to socket 3. BIOS shows them correctly as SCSI-0 and SCSI-1.
Yet Vista persistently calls the first HD Disk 1 and the second HD Disk 0.
Is that intentional or is that sloppy programming?

I have no IDE devices. On one desktop both drives are in AHCI mode, on
another - first drive is non-RAID and second is RAID 1 consisting of two
physical HDs. With the first desktop I blamed it on possibly myself
selecting wrong HD during install. But on the second desktop Vista would
not allow me to install on Disk 0 claiming that there are no volumes there
(I just created one and formatted it, for god's sake) and suggested Disk 1.
Then I looked at disk sizes and it became clear that disks are in wrong
order.

I unplugged the ones in RAID and am installing on the single HD now (which
is listed as Disk 0 now, obviously). I'll connect the RAIDed pair later
and see if Vista is able to boot. Just wanted to know if it's a "known"
issue (Google would not find anything but then may be I'm looking for wrong
terms).

DarthAcer

Have you asked in your assigned Vista SP2 Beta newsgroup about this issue ??? That
is where you should be directing the SP2 Beta questions. RC1 is still a Beta and
many things can still change in there before it becomes Gold

--
Peter

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"DarthNeo" wrote in message
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This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing
Vista on. I discovered that on both (different motherboards, CPUs, HDs)
Vista reverses HD order during install. I know exactly what HD is
connected to SATA socket 1 (socket 0 is for SATA DVD writer) and which is
connected to socket 3. BIOS shows them correctly as SCSI-0 and SCSI-1.
Yet Vista persistently calls the first HD Disk 1 and the second HD Disk 0.
Is that intentional or is that sloppy programming?

I have no IDE devices. On one desktop both drives are in AHCI mode, on
another - first drive is non-RAID and second is RAID 1 consisting of two
physical HDs. With the first desktop I blamed it on possibly myself
selecting wrong HD during install. But on the second desktop Vista would
not allow me to install on Disk 0 claiming that there are no volumes there
(I just created one and formatted it, for god's sake) and suggested Disk 1.
Then I looked at disk sizes and it became clear that disks are in wrong
order.

I unplugged the ones in RAID and am installing on the single HD now (which
is listed as Disk 0 now, obviously). I'll connect the RAIDed pair later
and see if Vista is able to boot. Just wanted to know if it's a "known"
issue (Google would not find anything but then may be I'm looking for wrong
terms).

DarthAcer

"Peter Foldes" wrote in
:

Have you asked in your assigned Vista SP2 Beta newsgroup about this
issue ??? That is where you should be directing the SP2 Beta
questions. RC1 is still a Beta and many things can still change in
there before it becomes Gold


Not yet as this did not seem to be a beta issue. I will report it there
though since it is indeed a bug: I put back RAID, booted, installed Intel
Matrix, which happily reports LITE-ON on port 0, non-RAID on port 1, RAID
on ports 2 and 3. Vista's disk manager shows RAID as Disk 0, non-RAID as
Disk 1. Clearly a bug.

Scanning this group though I noticed that there was at least one instance
where someone removed a "wrong disk" (as he explained later) while meaning
to remove a secondary disk. Sounds awfully similar to the disk order mixup
I am experiencing.

Going to beta group.