Re: SATA Drives?
From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 01/01/05
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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:08:09 -0700
Looking at the readme.txt file, I concur that you would have needed two SATA
drives.
VIA VT6420 SATA RAID and IDE controller supports two configurations:1) Two
SATA HDDs + Two IDE HDDs, and 2) Four SATA HDDs. The RAID functions are only
supported on SATA HDDs. It supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1
-- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Gerry Hickman" wrote: | Hi All, | | Well guess what? It all went horribly wrong! Just goes to show you can't | take anything for granted when it comes to computers. I'd tested my CD | before I went away on a SATA machine (and so had Oli from this group), | but we both had GX280s. I'm now thinking these boxes must have some kind | of emulation - I don't know. | | I went away for Christmas, and took the bootable CD with me. Bought some | computer components to build a PC for the family. ASUS K8V-X with "SATA | RAID". Using the existing ATX case, so backed everything up, took out | mainboard and hard drive. Added new mainboard and new SATA drive, looks | fine in BIOS and "RAID screen", tested with bootable DOS floppy and | FDISK (all seems to work - hard drive can be seen and partitioned). | Deleted test partitions. | | Boot up from my boot CD, loads all the drivers, then says "No hard | drives could be found!" Hmmm, that's not good. | | I then realize ASUS don't give you a floppy with the SATA driver, you | are supposed to run a utility to create the floppy, but I don't have a | working computer anymore! Put the old IDE hard drive in the new computer | and get "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"! Have to install the whole of Windows | to the very old and slow IDE drive just to be able to run the ASUS | "makedisk" utility. (I tried to extract the files from the CD under DOS | but it's not that simple). | | So I now have the driver disk, boot from CD, press F6, feed in the | floppy (not sure what you're supposed to do if you don't have a | floppy?), Windows text mode starts running, accepts the floppy, loads a | few more drivers, allows me to partition and format, (except the format | goes way too fast for my liking) then says "cannot copy VIASRAID.SYS". | | After messing around for a while and getting nowhere, I decided to swap | the new SATA drive for an ATA133 one the next day, and after that it was | fine. | | I still have no idea why it didn't work. Possible reasons: | | 1. You can't use ASUS SATA RAID with only one drive? | 2. Something not right with their drivers floppy | 3. Some other kind of hardware issue | | It was good the shop let me change the drive for an IDE one. The guy in | the shop blamed Windows 2000, saying "it would have been fine in XP".
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