Re: SATA2 not recognized by WinXPPro

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:07:48 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:38:45 +0000, Michael Wardreau Has Frothed:

I bought a SATA II card and a WD320 GB SATA drive.

I got the board's drivers installed but my BIOS and Device Manager doesn't
see the drive.

Would it be my Intel D850GBC mother board?

On boot up I get a black text screen saying the drive isn't right and I
can press the F4 key to get an option to low-level format the drive. I
haven't low-level formatted anything in 10 years.

What brand SATA II card? Did you RTFM?

I've been searching the Web and the Windows OS newsgroups but there
isn't much help. I'm thinking my motherboard is too old.

Should be ok.
Thanks for reply Meat Plow,

Yeah, I read the manual and followed it explicitly. Since my message
I've been toying extensively and managed to get the right driver for
the card. It appears the card is a RAID card. It won't accept
non-raid drivers. I tried all drivers on the CD-ROM. The RAID5 is to
only one that took.

In Device Manager I found that the card controller is working
properly.

But when I boot I get this after the normal BIOS messages:
"No valid device. Press any key to continue or Ctl-S to enter the
RAID Utility"

Like I mentioned before, I don't want to run the card as a Raid
device, but just as another hard drive. In the Raid setup, I played
with some of the things I could do but the messages came back that
there is no Raid device.

My tentative conclusions is that it appears the mother board doesn't
know what to do with the SATA drive. The MB is cicra 2001.

That's what takes me to the newsgroups to see if there are any hackers
out there who know what the problem might be.

But, yes, I did read the manual, which has only a page devoted to each
type of installation of the board. By the manual's reconing, I should
see the drive somewhat in Windows, but like I said I get the message,
"No valid drive," message.

The Web doesn't seem to bring up any similar situations.

I tried Tech Help but that's e-mail based, so if my request for info
is ever addressed, it may be long after Windows Vista is obsolete.
(Of course, that could be tomorrow!)
.

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