If you’ve not yet read the announcement from Microsoft, please do so here before continuing on. Today Microsoft have finally broken their silence on what storage management will look like in Windows Home Server 2011, and with the absence of consumer friendly storage management things do not look good for the average home user. You have gotten a taste of this with the out of touch manner that the removal of Drive Extender was announced and the subsequent silence from Microsoft on how your data would be protected on Windows Home Server Vail. I've read the stickied integration guide for integrating drivers for an XP/2003 disc using nLite above, but how much of this can I lift verbatim to try with a OS that's based on Server 2008 R2? I've already made a very basic attempt at slipstreaming using nLite's successor NTLite and the RAID drivers available on the website for my board's manufacturer, but ended up going nowhere with it.Ever since the Windows Home Server team was absorbed into the Small Business Server team I’ve observed a steady decline in the attention the team has placed on the average home user while designing the next generation Windows Home Server products. The installer runs to completion just fine if I put the BIOS back to AHCI mode, but I don't want to run the array that way because of the performance hit it will entail.
I can get the installer to start (running it from an external optical drive and connecting a thumb drive to load the drivers so that the installer will recognize them), but the installation requires several reboots and immediately after the first one, I get a Windows Boot Manager error (iaStorA.sys, 0xc0000359) that I just can't get around.
I'm hitting a tremendous roadblock when it comes to dealing with the Intel C226 drivers necessary to run the drives in RAID mode. I'm in the midst of a server build based on an ASRock Rack E3C226D2I board that I want to set up with a Samsung EVO 850 SSD for a Windows Home Server 2011 host OS and three 3TB Western Digital Red drives in RAID5 for data storage.
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