New SATA add-on drives cause continuous New Hardware Found message

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bootup. I just added two new WD 200GB internal SATA drives for additional
storage. They are a RAID 1 pair and show up as a "basic" healthy drive just
fine in disk management. No Device Manager yellow icons. My Computer shows
them as my F: drive. BIOS was setup just fine and nVidia Raid setup ok, too.
The only problem I have is that I get "Found New Hardware" messages at bootup
for each of the two drives.

I have a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939 motherboard; XP SP2 with latest MS updates;
latest NVidia nForce ATA Raid driver (5.10.2600.446) for my onboard SATA Raid
controller. My boot drive is also a RAID 1 pair, but use another Silicon
Graphics Raid controller onboard. They work fine.

No drivers available on the WD Data Lifeguard Tools v11.3 CD, or the
Gigabyte install CD for new drivers, etc. No help from Western Digital
website. No ideas from Gigabyte support either.

Suggestions?
 
GP151001 said:
bootup. I just added two new WD 200GB internal SATA drives for additional
storage. They are a RAID 1 pair and show up as a "basic" healthy drive just
fine in disk management. No Device Manager yellow icons. My Computer shows
them as my F: drive. BIOS was setup just fine and nVidia Raid setup ok, too.
The only problem I have is that I get "Found New Hardware" messages at bootup
for each of the two drives.

I have a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939 motherboard; XP SP2 with latest MS updates;
latest NVidia nForce ATA Raid driver (5.10.2600.446) for my onboard SATA Raid
controller. My boot drive is also a RAID 1 pair, but use another Silicon
Graphics Raid controller onboard. They work fine.

No drivers available on the WD Data Lifeguard Tools v11.3 CD, or the
Gigabyte install CD for new drivers, etc. No help from Western Digital
website. No ideas from Gigabyte support either.

Suggestions?
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Even though the WD hard drives are set up for RAID, there are still
SATA controllers that are "hot". Read the motherboard manual. One of
2 things might need to be done. One is to disable SATA in bios setup;
the other is to install the SATA drivers from the motherboard cdrom
(or the Gigabyte website if not on the cdrom). (BTW, ran into this
peculiar issue with an ASUS motherboard set up in the same way.)
 
I have this mobo.
There is an driver on the mobo cd you have to install.
I dont recall which one.
 
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