Two SATA controllers on ASUS K8V?

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Mark Timerding

I installed an ASUS K8V motherboard in my system a few
months ago .... I use two Sata harddrives (WDC Raptor and
a Seagate) as well as two IDE drives. (running Windows xp
pro with sp2)

The SATA's are installed with the VIA drivers ... (the Raptor
of course being the boot drive) .... due to some unusual
software problems, (since installing sp2 and/or other software)
I decided that maybe the VIA chipset/drivers may be the
problem, and decided to try the onboard promise controller.

Since installing the motherboard, and windows, my sata's have
used the VIA ....plugged into the "SATA1" and "SATA2" connectors
on the motherboard. I was under the impression that simply plugging
into the "Pri Sata" and "Sec Sata" connectors on the motherboard
would cause it to use the Promise controller.

Apparently, I was wrong ... I changed the connections as outlined
above, and enabled the Promise controller in the BIOS ... yet,
when I booted up .. the system says it is still using two Sata
Drives on the VIA controller.

I disabled the "Onboard SATA BootRom" (thinking it was VIA?)
in the BIOS ..... tried to boot up, and no good, it didnt see the
two sata drives period.

I even tried reinstalling fresh, (using "F6" during install to load the
promise drives) ... and still, the system still saw only the two
IDE drives, no Satas. One thing of note, during ALL ATTEMPTS
at bootup, during the BIOS Post, I got the message "No devices
detected" for the Promise Fasttrax.

So, I am either not doing something right, or maybe my motherboard
is broke, or maybe I am mistaken, and there is NO Promise Sata
controller. (but, I could swear I read, several times, on this group
that the "Pri Sata, and Sec Sata" are for Promise, and "Sata1 and
Sata2" are for VIA.

Can someone straighten me out?
 
I have a K8V SE Deluxe. If it is sufficiently similar to the KV8, then you
are not mistaken. You do have a promise SATA controller. I am using the
Promise controller. In order to do that you have (1) plug it into the
appropriate SATA connection; (2) enable it in the BIOS (don't forget the
Boot order section); and (3) install the Promise RAID/SATA drivers. If
you've done all that, and still can't get it to work, then your motherboard
may be the problem.
 
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