SATA Drive not Detected on A7N8X-E Deluxe

[Johan Parin]

Hi all,

Just got a new A7N8X-E Deluxe and a Barracuda 160 GB SATA. During
boot, I cannot see anything about SATA drives. I can see

Primary Master: <Pioneer DVD>
Primary Slave: None
Secondary Master: None
Secondary Slave: None

But nothing about SATA. Aren't the SATA drives supposed to be detected
after the above?

The jumper on the mobo enabling the SATA controller is set to
enabled. I have tried connecting the SATA cable to both SATA_RAID1 and
SATA_RAID2.

What could be the problem here?


Johan

 

[keolu]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:46:47 +0100, Johan Parin <[email protected]>
wrote:

In Windows XP installation, the SATA is seen as a SCSI device.
The RAID controller isn't necessarily part of the boot onscreen
report.

If you have the SATA driver files on a floppy and choose 'specify
additional SCSI devices' (F3 I think) during setup, you should
succeed.

After the OS is installed, it will show an onscreen report during
boot.

Good luck,

Gary

 

[Ben Pope]

You won't see it here.

Well... I think you get POST, then you get the SATA controller screen (if
enabled with the jumper) - that is the screen your drive should appear on.
The you get the POST report (where it tells you CPU, memory, drives, and
lower down all the IRQs)

Well, hopefully you have just ignored the correct screen... if the Silicon
Image 3112A BIOS doesn't come up, you should triple check that jumper.

In Windows XP installation, the SATA is seen as a SCSI device.
The RAID controller isn't necessarily part of the boot onscreen
report.

It is seen as a SCSI device, yes. All ATA and SCSI controllers I've seen
report their drive search on screen during boot.

If you have the SATA driver files on a floppy and choose 'specify
additional SCSI devices' (F3 I think) during setup, you should
succeed.

Thats F6 when you install the OS.

After the OS is installed, it will show an onscreen report during
boot.

"boot" i..e., post is pre-OS so the OS installation has nothing to do with
it.

Ben

 

[S.O.S.D.D.]

You won't see it here.


Well... I think you get POST, then you get the SATA controller screen (if
enabled with the jumper) - that is the screen your drive should appear on.
The you get the POST report (where it tells you CPU, memory, drives, and
lower down all the IRQs)


Well, hopefully you have just ignored the correct screen... if the Silicon
Image 3112A BIOS doesn't come up, you should triple check that jumper.


It is seen as a SCSI device, yes. All ATA and SCSI controllers I've seen
report their drive search on screen during boot.


Thats F6 when you install the OS.


"boot" i..e., post is pre-OS so the OS installation has nothing to do with
it.

Ben
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I have the same problem. I have done everything up to where it asks you

about the SCSI
after pressing S key after the F6 when loading XP ( to make a long story
short). What driver do I use there are two of them both are Raid ? Did I
copy the right files onto the disk?

 

[Ben Pope]

about the SCSI
after pressing S key after the F6 when loading XP ( to make a long story
short). What driver do I use there are two of them both are Raid ? Did
I copy the right files onto the disk?

I don't recall...

Is this the choice:
"Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003"
"Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000"

The decision should be obvious...

Ben

 

[Johan Parin]

Ben Pope writes:


Ben> You won't see it here.

Ben> Well... I think you get POST, then you get the SATA controller
Ben> screen (if enabled with the jumper) - that is the screen your
Ben> drive should appear on. The you get the POST report (where it
Ben> tells you CPU, memory, drives, and lower down all the IRQs)

Ben> Well, hopefully you have just ignored the correct screen... if
Ben> the Silicon Image 3112A BIOS doesn't come up, you should triple
Ben> check that jumper.

It was pure stupidity on my part really. What happened was that I had
no floppy drive installed, but the BIOS was set to boot from floppy. I
then got a fatal floppy error after IDE drive detection. I didn't
notice a "Press F1 to contiue at the bottom of the screen". After
hitting F1, the SATA BIOS fired up and I was able to detect the disk.

WinXP installation went like a breeze after copying the driver to a
floppy. It wasn't obvious which files to copy though.

Anyway, problem solved. Thanks all.