Re: SATA Drive on P4PE

You have to load the Fasttrack 376 Raid Driver from a floppy BEFORE the OS
by hitting the F6 option to load additional storage devices before windows
can see it

I had the same problem ended up formatting and starting from scratch to
setup a bootable SATA Raid
Who uses a floppy anymore, what a pain

<grahamers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1156285965.961037.211060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I bought a new SATA drive (Seagate 300GB) as a scratch disk for some
video editing. I mounted the dirve and plugged it into the controller
slot labeled "PRI_SATA" in the P4PE manual. I then started having
issues gettign the BIOS/OS (Win XP SP2) to see the drive. here is what
I have done so far and the results:

1. I set all IDE Master and Slaves to "Auto" detect in the bios. The
Bios immediately saw my old HD as the primary master, but did not see
my SATA drive.

2. I turned off the Raid controller in teh Advanced PCI settings in the
BIOS. The bios still did not see the drive.

3. I turned the Raid controller back on and changed the related "ATA
First" menu option to "yes." The bios still did not see the drive.

After each of these I always loaded windows and went into computer
management, disk drives to see if windows somehow detected it, but,
alas, no such luck.

4. I entered the raid fast trak setup utility during bootup by hitting
Ctl-F. That utility saw the drive (Listed the model # and drive size
correctly.) i was able to create a Raid array utilizing that one
drive. i rebooted and went into windows, but windows did not see the
array as a drive. (Besides, one should not have to create raid arrays
to use a single SATA drive, should on?)

I am stuck. I know the drive is alive and powered since the raid
utility in the bios can see it, but there seems to be no way to get
windows to see it. Am I missing anything? Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

-Graham



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