ST61G4 + 160 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA Proble..

Hello everyone. I recently purchased the ST61G4 from MWAVE. Loaded it
with 1 GB DDR400 RAM, 160 GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA drive, and a 3.0 GHz
P4. Problems arising from the beginning: the BIOS does not recognize
the drive.

I thought the drive was dead perhaps. But when I enabled the OnChip
RAID feature, and loaded the RAID utility during bootup, I could see
the drive listed there. I even low-level formatted it.

The documentation isn't strong yet for this system since it just came
out 1-2 weeks ago. The PDF I used told me to enable Serial ATA,
enable the floppy A:, enable the FDC of course, and enable the RAID
chip. Then, hit F6 during Windows installation to load the drivers.
That failed and it keeps asking me for a manufacturer disk, when I
copied the D:\Silicon\RAID directory over to the floppy disk as per
instructions from MWAVE.

Right now I'm in talks with MWAVE to find the solution. Nothing so
far, but at least I know the drive is being recognized. FYI I hooked
the drive up to another system with SATA, and it recognized it
immediately.

So I'm digging through CMOS looking for the right setting, perhaps,
that can solve the problem. I've even documented everything I've done
thus far here:

http://home.shafe.com/docs/ST61G4.html

Can anyone please help me? MWAVE is taking their time because they've
never encountered this problem before.

Thanks!

Mike

If the SATA RAID controller is of the type SIL3x12 (Silicon Image) then
download the drivers from:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://12.24.47.40/display/2/index.asp?c=12&cpc=ULwO0A442oKs512Q04X5i0UupP4SveI6dt2WJi7&cid=2&r=0.7982752" target="_blank">http://12.24.47.40/display/2/index.asp?c=12&cpc=ULwO0A442oKs512Q04X5i0...P4SveI6</a>
(Go to downloads, drivers.... should find it in there) and put them on a
floppy disk.

It is quite likely that your SATA drive was recognised on other systems as
they have installed Windows XP onto another drive, which carries with it the
SATA drivers, or there was anexisting SATA drive already on the system,
hence drivers for the controller were already installed...

Dom




"Mike Shafer" <spam.DeleteThis@shafe.com> wrote in message
news:bf290347.0312040943.125d1a73@posting.google.com...
 > Hello everyone. I recently purchased the ST61G4 from MWAVE. Loaded it
 > with 1 GB DDR400 RAM, 160 GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA drive, and a 3.0 GHz
 > P4. Problems arising from the beginning: the BIOS does not recognize
 > the drive.
 >
 > I thought the drive was dead perhaps. But when I enabled the OnChip
 > RAID feature, and loaded the RAID utility during bootup, I could see
 > the drive listed there. I even low-level formatted it.
 >
 > The documentation isn't strong yet for this system since it just came
 > out 1-2 weeks ago. The PDF I used told me to enable Serial ATA,
 > enable the floppy A:, enable the FDC of course, and enable the RAID
 > chip. Then, hit F6 during Windows installation to load the drivers.
 > That failed and it keeps asking me for a manufacturer disk, when I
 > copied the D:\Silicon\RAID directory over to the floppy disk as per
 > instructions from MWAVE.
 >
 > Right now I'm in talks with MWAVE to find the solution. Nothing so
 > far, but at least I know the drive is being recognized. FYI I hooked
 > the drive up to another system with SATA, and it recognized it
 > immediately.
 >
 > So I'm digging through CMOS looking for the right setting, perhaps,
 > that can solve the problem. I've even documented everything I've done
 > thus far here:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://home.shafe.com/docs/ST61G4.html</font" target="_blank">http://home.shafe.com/docs/ST61G4.html</font</a>>
 >
 > Can anyone please help me? MWAVE is taking their time because they've
 > never encountered this problem before.
 >
 > Thanks!
 >
 > Mike<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->