A7N8X Delux SATA Driver problem

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Hi,

I Installed a single Seagate Barracuda 80gb hard drive on the above
board (primary SATA).

On installing XP I use the driver from the cd copied to floppy and the
installation works fine.

The problem is that on loading, Windows hows that no driver is
installed for the Sil Raid. Obviously with only one Drive the Raid
feature is not applicable, but nevertheless I presume a driver for the
controller should be installed.

No matter which driver I use for the Sil - when I reboot - the system
seems to try to load in short bursts of 5 seconds (ie the blue
indicator on loading XP moves for a few seconds then stops, moves
again then stops etc), after around 20 minutes the system still hasn't
booted into XP.

I have tried the drivers on the CD, and from the Sil web site - have
upgraded the BIOS to 1007 and retried installing the drivers but the
same happens.

The raid utility loads ok and shows the drive is running in UDMA 6
(was PIO).

Sandra benches the drive at 32,000 which I would guess is a little too
low for this setup.

Any advice?

Can a single drive be used or does the SATA HAVE to be in a RAID
config?

The board is Rev 2.0 btw.

TIA
 
Hmm. This is almost definitely a driver problem. (And yes - you CAN run a
single SATA drive...with no RAID involvement whatsoever)

Regrettably, I cannot offer anything further except this: do you have the
boot sequence [in the BIOS] set to SCSI as first device?

Please post a follow-up.
Ron
 
Thanks for the reply.

Yes I do,

The drive runs as long as I do not install a Windows driver, just that
I guess not at it's full potential.
 
Zoney said:
Hi,

I Installed a single Seagate Barracuda 80gb hard drive on the above
board (primary SATA).

On installing XP I use the driver from the cd copied to floppy and the
installation works fine.

The problem is that on loading, Windows hows that no driver is
installed for the Sil Raid. Obviously with only one Drive the Raid
feature is not applicable, but nevertheless I presume a driver for the
controller should be installed.
Click to expand...

Yeah, ideally :-)
No matter which driver I use for the Sil - when I reboot - the system
seems to try to load in short bursts of 5 seconds (ie the blue
indicator on loading XP moves for a few seconds then stops, moves
again then stops etc), after around 20 minutes the system still hasn't
booted into XP.
Click to expand...

You need to use the RAID driver, even when not using RAID capability. The
non-RAID driver will not work. I have a copy of the drivers I'm using here:

www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers

Ben
 
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