8KRAI: SATA drive, About to rip out my hair!

Thee Chicago Wolf wrote:
>> Did you load its driver disc at boot up time?
>
> No, I did not. Are these the one's available from VIA area or from the
> Epox drivers CD?
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
Should come with the board on a floppy usually. They did with my Epox
EP-8RDA6 Pro. You ned to press F6 i think early on in XP installation
when iy asks about installing extra drivers...as I remember.
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I believe you are trying to install the Maxtor SATA drive as the second
drive. This requires another step in the installation. If you were
installing the SATA as the only drive Windows wouldd recognize it and the
installation would be straight forward. You have to initialize the SATA
drive in DiskManagement before it is recognized in Windows. There are
instructions at the link below that will explain. This is a Western Digital
site but the instructions a universal. Goog luck.
Bill



"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
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> >Should come with the board on a floppy usually. They did with my Epox
>>EP-8RDA6 Pro. You ned to press F6 i think early on in XP installation
>>when iy asks about installing extra drivers...as I remember.
>
> Well, now I have tried it by pressing F6 using the SATA driver disk
> that came with the MoBo and I even went and got the latest driver and
> still nothing. Do you suppose it could be the drive config? Since
> there is no master / slave on the SATA, do any other PATA drive have
> to be set to slave? I currently have my original IDE on IDE0 as master
> and another IDE and DVD-RW on IDE1 as master and slave respectively.
>
> Just so I am clear, it can operate with one SATA drive, correct?
> Thanks for your help.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
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Then what is the IDE setting for?

DaveL


"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
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> >I believe you are trying to install the Maxtor SATA drive as the second
>>drive. This requires another step in the installation. If you were
>>installing the SATA as the only drive Windows wouldd recognize it and the
>>installation would be straight forward. You have to initialize the SATA
>>drive in DiskManagement before it is recognized in Windows. There are
>>instructions at the link below that will explain. This is a Western
>>Digital
>>site but the instructions a universal. Goog luck.
>>Bill
>
> Bill,
>
> I figured out the problem. It turns out that it was a BIOS setting. I
> don't understand why BIOS makers put options in the BIOS that have NO
> effect.
>
> Basically, I was under the impression that when I turned ON the SATA
> controller and set it to operate as IDE and not RAID that it should
> know that I am not setting up a RAID array or doing anything with
> RAID. Apparently the only way to actually be able to write or set up
> to the SATA drive IS to set the BIOS to be RAID mode. That is probably
> the stupidest thing I have ever see in all my 15+ years of dealing
> with PC hardware. I can't wait until PCs go to EFI BIOS and move to
> the 21st century. Thanks for your help though.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
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