invisible SATA hard drive

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A recently fitted SATA HD isn't showing up.



I have 4 SATA slots on my Gigabyte Duo GA-8I915P Duo Pro motherboard. 2
have a matching pair of Hitachi SATA HDs in a RAID configuration.

A few months ago I fitted a Panasonic DVD RW into one of the remaining
slots. It showed up and worked faultlessly immediately.

Recently I bought a Western Digital 400GB SATA HD, fitted it into a spare
bay and hooked it up. But it's not there.

During POST (which in spite of every attempt to pause it, flashes along at
the speed of light) no trace of it seems to appear. I think the DVD RW is
there and the 2 RAID drives do appear but not the WD drive. There's no sign
of it in BIOS either even after using the auto detect option.

What do I need to do to get this new drive up and running? If this isn't
the right group does anyone know of another or maybe a forum?



TIA

RoS
 
This is not much of a suggestion, but I found it helped me a bit. I
set up my digital camera for close-up photography, no flash, and I
snapped photos of the boot sequence as it rolled by. I then brought
the images up in Irfanview and used the option "Image>Negative" to get
black on white instead of white on black (to save on toner/ink when
printing.)

baumgrenze
 
A recently fitted SATA HD isn't showing up.

I have 4 SATA slots on my Gigabyte Duo GA-8I915P Duo Pro motherboard.  2
have a matching pair of Hitachi SATA HDs in a RAID configuration.

A few months ago I fitted a Panasonic DVD RW into one of the remaining
slots.  It showed up and worked faultlessly immediately.

Recently I bought a Western Digital 400GB SATA HD, fitted it into a spare
bay and hooked it up.  But it's not there.

During POST (which in spite of every attempt to pause it, flashes along at
the speed of light) no trace of it seems to appear.  I think the DVD RW is
there and the 2 RAID drives do appear but not the WD drive.  There's no sign
of it in BIOS either even after using the auto detect option.

What do I need to do to get this new drive up and running?  If this isn't
the right group does anyone know of another or maybe a forum?

TIA

RoS
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As with all drive connection problems, you need to

-- Check the cable connected to the drive (power and data)
-- Check with a known "working" port. Replace with thr DVD RW drive
for a test. If the "problem" drive works, change the cable.
-- Check in the BIOS so as to see if BIOS settigns for SATA ports.

And the last thing to check / try:

-- Look for BIOS update for this motherboard. There might be a known
problem and the motherbaord needs a BIOS "patch."
 
Have you 'right clicked' My Computer and then "Manage" and then,
finally, "Disk Management?"

Once you have, be careful what you do. This utility can get you into
trouble very quickly. You can read about my recent experience at:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...5/029035e465a6b8f8?hl=en&lnk=st&q=baumgrenze#

Perhaps what you find there will help you.

You do not indicate whether or not your new drive has been
'initialized' and/or partitioned and formatted. You don't spell out
which OS you are using and what version. What I posted is for XP Pro
SP2.

Good luck,

baumgrenze
 
It's straight out of the box. Can't initialize it cos I can't 'see' it.
Running XP SP2.

I've changed cables/slots, the DVD RAM is fine on the other cable/slot
configuration. Just cannot see HD. May be DOA but still wonder whether I
need to do something else. I'm looking for a BIOS patch but the existing
Bios is very recent??
 
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