SATA install problems

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New Acus A8V M board....installed Win2k on an IDE drive and it all runs
sweetly. Then decide to get some extra speed on this new internet/office
box so out with the IDE and in with a 10k Raptor SATA drive and a backup
Seagate SATA drive both new BTW.

Both drives recognised as masters on channel 0 and 1. Win2k disk fires
up and I hit F6 to give notice of installing the SATA drivers. Install
the drivers with no problem and on to the point when you have to say yes
to install the OS....that's when the problem comes. Nasty notice
saying cannot see any hard drives. I have tried having only one of the
drives connected and tried each in either of the two SATA connections
but without any joy. Any one got a clue what might be going wrong
please?

Many thanks

Richard
 
New Acus A8V M board....installed Win2k on an IDE drive and it all runs
sweetly. Then decide to get some extra speed on this new internet/office
box so out with the IDE and in with a 10k Raptor SATA drive and a backup
Seagate SATA drive both new BTW.

Both drives recognised as masters on channel 0 and 1. Win2k disk fires
up and I hit F6 to give notice of installing the SATA drivers. Install
the drivers with no problem and on to the point when you have to say yes
to install the OS....that's when the problem comes. Nasty notice
saying cannot see any hard drives. I have tried having only one of the
drives connected and tried each in either of the two SATA connections
but without any joy. Any one got a clue what might be going wrong
please?
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If the board has multiple SATA interfaces, make sure you're loading
the correct driver.
 
Richard said:
New Acus A8V M board....installed Win2k on an IDE drive and it all runs
sweetly. Then decide to get some extra speed on this new internet/office
box so out with the IDE and in with a 10k Raptor SATA drive and a backup
Seagate SATA drive both new BTW.

Both drives recognised as masters on channel 0 and 1. Win2k disk fires
up and I hit F6 to give notice of installing the SATA drivers. Install
the drivers with no problem and on to the point when you have to say yes
to install the OS....that's when the problem comes. Nasty notice
saying cannot see any hard drives. I have tried having only one of the
drives connected and tried each in either of the two SATA connections
but without any joy. Any one got a clue what might be going wrong please?
Click to expand...

If you have not formatted the new SATA drives yet, they will not be
seen. The drive is there but no usable file system is.

I thought the Win2K installation process offered to format drives. If
not, you can probably use Partition Magic.
 
Richard said:
Both drives recognised as masters on channel 0 and 1. Win2k disk fires
up and I hit F6 to give notice of installing the SATA drivers. Install
the drivers with no problem and on to the point when you have to say yes
to install the OS....that's when the problem comes. Nasty notice
saying cannot see any hard drives. I have tried having only one of the
drives connected and tried each in either of the two SATA connections
but without any joy. Any one got a clue what might be going wrong please?
Click to expand...

The BIOS may be expecting some kind of raid signature on the disk(s) before it
will present them to the rest of the hardware as a raid set. Perhaps there is a
configuration switch in the BIOS to change the drives to non-RAID? This may
make them appear as ordinary drives, addressable individually by the host
system. (Some of the more intelligent hardware raid controllers work this way,
but this may not be a feature of your hardware, but worth a look..)

Look for something like 'SATA access' == "RAID" or "IDE"/"Non-RAID"

Jim
 
Richard said:
New Acus A8V M board....installed Win2k on an IDE drive and it all runs
sweetly. Then decide to get some extra speed on this new internet/office
box so out with the IDE and in with a 10k Raptor SATA drive and a backup
Seagate SATA drive both new BTW.

Both drives recognised as masters on channel 0 and 1. Win2k disk fires
up and I hit F6 to give notice of installing the SATA drivers. Install
the drivers with no problem and on to the point when you have to say yes
to install the OS....that's when the problem comes. Nasty notice
saying cannot see any hard drives. I have tried having only one of the
drives connected and tried each in either of the two SATA connections
but without any joy. Any one got a clue what might be going wrong
please?

Many thanks

Richard
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Carefully read your motherboard manual.
You've got a problem with CMOS setup.
Check boot disk priority and how SATA is enabled.
 
In his posting of Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Stubby writes
If you have not formatted the new SATA drives yet, they will not be
seen. The drive is there but no usable file system is.

I thought the Win2K installation process offered to format drives. If
not, you can probably use Partition Magic.
Click to expand...

Win 2k formats etc no problem. I put the Seagate SATA into my Opteron
box running XP Pro and it was seen straight away. I partitioned it into
one 80G and formatted that and copied the Promise drivers from the Asus
CD that came with my MB. Still no joy. Seen in the BIOS by not
recognised during 2K install or when I boot up on the IDE drive not seen
in disk manager although I scan the disks and refresh. Could it be that
the drivers are no good?

Cheers

Richard
 
In his posting of Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Jim Howes writes
The BIOS may be expecting some kind of raid signature on the disk(s) before it
will present them to the rest of the hardware as a raid set. Perhaps
there is a
configuration switch in the BIOS to change the drives to non-RAID? This may
make them appear as ordinary drives, addressable individually by the host
system. (Some of the more intelligent hardware raid controllers work this way,
but this may not be a feature of your hardware, but worth a look..)

Look for something like 'SATA access' == "RAID" or "IDE"/"Non-RAID"

Jim
Click to expand...

Thanks Jim

In the BIOS there is no option like this unfortunately. There is
nothing on any of the four IDE channels And nothing about RAID or
SATA....Really stuck!

Cheers

Richard
 
In his posting of Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Colon Terminus writes
Carefully read your motherboard manual.
You've got a problem with CMOS setup.
Check boot disk priority and how SATA is enabled.
Click to expand...

Thanks. Boot disk priority is floppy, CD and then the IDE drive which
is loaded with win2k and is booting up fine. Under the drives the
first one shown is the IDE boot drive that's fine and the second drive
only has the following alternatives my IDE drive, then VIA VT 6420 1st
HDD and then a disabled option and this does not seem to get me
anywhere unless I am missing a trick<G>

Cheers

Richard
 
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