>WD SATA Drive not seen<

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I have an MK8M800 Chaintech mobo that is unable to recognize a newly
purchased WD SATA 250gig HD that I'm trying to use as storage. During
bootups it hasn't seen the HD on either of the 2 connections that I have.
I've gone all thru the BIOS... I.E., Made sure that PnP is set to "No".
I've gone into (Intergrated Peripherals) to (VIA Onchip IDE Device) to
(SATA Mode)... There, I have the options of IDE or RAID. I've changed
it to RAID w/no success. - - -
I've been scouring the Net trying to find out
what needs to be done and have run across that drivers ?maybe? needed
& to use F6 to get this done via floppy... as suggested by this person
who seems to have gone thru something similarI haven't the faintest idea what drivers to look for & also my board
doesn't support floppy drives and I would really NOT prefer to go thru
the changes of connecting one externally. I've also run across suggestions
of updating the BIOS. I was under the impression that once the necessary
changes were made in the BIOS that nothing else further was needed.- -

AnYoNe out there have AnY suggestions At aLL??

THANX N ADVANCE
WB
 
CmosDriver said:
I have an MK8M800 Chaintech mobo that is unable to recognize a newly
purchased WD SATA 250gig HD that I'm trying to use as storage. During
bootups it hasn't seen the HD on either of the 2 connections that I have.
I've gone all thru the BIOS... I.E., Made sure that PnP is set to "No".
I've gone into (Intergrated Peripherals) to (VIA Onchip IDE Device) to
(SATA Mode)... There, I have the options of IDE or RAID. I've changed
it to RAID w/no success. - - -
I've been scouring the Net trying to find out
what needs to be done and have run across that drivers ?maybe? needed
& to use F6 to get this done via floppy... as suggested by this person
who seems to have gone thru something similar
I haven't the faintest idea what drivers to look for & also my board
doesn't support floppy drives and I would really NOT prefer to go thru
the changes of connecting one externally. I've also run across suggestions
of updating the BIOS. I was under the impression that once the necessary
changes were made in the BIOS that nothing else further was needed.- -

AnYoNe out there have AnY suggestions At aLL??

THANX N ADVANCE
WB
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Install the "Force 150" jumper on the back of the drive.
Not all SATA drives have a jumper area, in which case
you might need something like the Hitachi Feature Tool
to set it.

See page 11 here, for a warning about VIA SATA interfaces.

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/...uides/dm_11_sata300_installation_guide_en.pdf

Paul
 
Hello Peter,

An EIDE is supporting my OS. This is my first attempt to attaching a SATA
onto the board. I've downloaded the chipset drivers and have gone thru the
install process. So now "VIA SATA RAID Controller" shows up within "Device
Manager"... But, the drivers seems to NOT work because I have the (yellow !
exclamation point<) over it.
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WB
 
Most new SATA hds wont show up,no matter what settings you adjust,the
problem lies in its "raw" stage,from the factory.Simply set BIOS for IDE &
SATA,if youre running both,install xp cd,set to boot to xp cd,at F6,install
the floppy disk for the SATA/RAID controller,after,press r For recovery,
select 1 For C: Press enter for password,type:DiskPart In DiskPart,create
a partition on SATA Press ESC when thru,type:FORMAT D: /FS:NTFS D:
being SATA hd,when thru,type:EXIT Let xp start,or reset BIOS,remove xp cd.
 
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