Asus P4S8X and Single Drive via the Serial ATA Controller

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Bob

Hi there, this may be a dumb question but trying to get my system working.
Have the above MB with 1.5GB RAM, a Seagate 120GB SATA HDD, couple of CD
Rom's on Secondary Controller.
Want to know if the above drive can work by itself, or is it strictly RAID
with IDE drive off Primary Controller mandatory?
Tried installing W2K with drivers first and cannot get it done...the files
from ASUS get an error as I select after F6 and pressing S.
Get the screen to load but get error after that.
Did diagnosis of Seagate drive and it is in fine working order.
I DL both versions of the driver from ASUS to no avail...can anyone shed
some light?

thnks
Rob
 
Hello Bob.

Ì have a simliar configuration and it works fine.

Bob said:
Want to know if the above drive can work by itself, or is it strictly RAID
with IDE drive off Primary Controller mandatory?
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The drive can work as standalone with both IDE on.
Tried installing W2K with drivers first and cannot get it done...the files
from ASUS get an error as I select after F6 and pressing S.
Click to expand...

Have you copy the driver to a diskette?
Get the screen to load but get error after that.
Did diagnosis of Seagate drive and it is in fine working order.
I DL both versions of the driver from ASUS to no avail...can anyone shed
some light?
Click to expand...

In bios I have enable SATA first.


geets from Germany

Joachim
 
Hi there, this may be a dumb question but trying to get my system working.
Have the above MB with 1.5GB RAM, a Seagate 120GB SATA HDD, couple of CD
Rom's on Secondary Controller.
Want to know if the above drive can work by itself, or is it strictly RAID
with IDE drive off Primary Controller mandatory?
Tried installing W2K with drivers first and cannot get it done...the files
from ASUS get an error as I select after F6 and pressing S.
Get the screen to load but get error after that.
Click to expand...

What's the error?
 
This is the error


File \Win2000\fasttx2k.sys caused an unexpected error (18) at line 1211 in
D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.



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