Re: SATA drive setup help please.



Phillips wrote:
You have to install Promise drivers for your specific Promise
controller (probably 378); problem is that Promise does not offer
drivers for Promise controllers installed on motherboards - the mobo
manufacturer is supposed to do it on the mobo install CD; however, if
you don't find the drivers on CD, you can use some 'generic' Promise
drivers - google for "WinXP Promise SATA378(tm) IDE Controller."
Download and install via Hardware Wizard or Disk Manager - same as
for Intel SATA. Also, these Promise drivers can be loaded from a
floppy (or on a custom XP Install CD) at F6 XP setup. After you install
the Promise drivers, go in BIOS and enable Promise
IDE (or such); the 378 controller can Raid both SATA and UATA (IDE)
HDDs, so the name of the option might not be "Promise SATA." Check
your mobo manual for (might be on mobo website) details. You might
have to update (flash) mobo BIOS as well.
Reboot and you should see, after the normal mobo boot, a Promise boot
screen "searching for IDE harddrive..." or such. It will load XP
after a few secs. For better disk mgt., I recommend a fresh XP
install (have the Intel and Promise drivers available on a floppy or
create a custom XP install CD) after adding the new HDDs. You must
have the XP qualifing Win OS and you will have to reactivate XP - but
that should not be a problem. Michael

Perhaps you misunderstood. I already have the Promise card working with the
drivers on the Maxtor disk that came with the card. Do you mean I need a
different driver now that the SATA drive is installed? I updated the MoBo
when I installed it a few months ago if this means anything.

"John" <ModelMan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Phillips wrote:
1. Go to Intel website and download the latest drivers for your
chipset; there's a Chipset Info utility on same site that you can
use to identify Intel hardware. Be sure to download the XP versions.
1.a You might have an older SATA (1.0) controller while your HDD is
NCQ; hence, your NCQ HDD might go "off-line" and needs a few secs to
wake up - while XP freezes.
2. Check that the SATA cable is correctly connected in the SATA Port
0 (you should have 2 or 4 SATA onboard ports); try another SATA
cable also and make sure the SATA cable is not touched by other
cables that might press it when you install the case door/lid.
Better test the machine w/out the PC case cover and gently check
the connections at both ends while in XP. 3. Go BIOS... check
"Configure SATA as Raid" set to NO.
4. In BIOS check that the Boot Drive is set to your XP drive - at
boot time, F8 (or other key) might give you the option to pick a
boot device. 5. HDD manufacturer's website should have downloadable
utilities for
testing the correct installation of the HDD.
Michael

Thanks greatly. I have RAID/SATA running fine now. The drive is
faster than any of the others I have. There is however a conflict
with my drives on the Promise card. I had to remove the disk that
was in the drawer to allow the SATA drive and the OS to boot. It now
seems I can use only one or the other. I have well over a dozen
drives in drawers all on cable select so I guess if one doesn't work
they all won't. Do you have any ideas? I have not tried a different
plug in the Promise card which I will do now as an other last resort.

John




"John" <ModelMan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Phillips wrote:
You should have a whatever.inf file on the floppy - don't bother
finding setup.exe. You can right click the .inf file and click
Install in the commands drop down menu; if you want to see what's
in the .inf file, click the Edit command in same menu list. Also,
you can install the .inf via Hardware Wizard.
Otherwise, if you did not install HDD yet:
Install the hard-drive (HDD), boot and open BIOS. You should find
the new SATA HDD installed - but might be presented as an IDE HDD
- pending your mobo and BIOS. Navigate BIOS and check if there
is a SATA (controller) enable option - theree might be none but
the SATA Raid option which you don't need. If you have to install
the controller, you might need to reboot. Pending your mobo
setup, you might need to install HDD drivers in Windows first...
but very unlikely. After HDD is 'seen' in BIOS' start XP. The
Hardware Wizard might
discover the new HDD - unlikely, though, since the HDD is not
formatted for XP; if the Wizard finds it, just feed it the drivers
from the floppy - find the .inf file.
If Hardware Wizard does not start, go Control Panel/
Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and you
should see your SATA HDD there. Right click and check Properties
or Format options. Use the same format as for the other HDD(s)
you have installed; NTSF is recommended at least for safety
reasons. Michael

I Enabled Intel RAID and SATA in BIOS but when booting with SATA
drive connected will prevent OS from loading. If I disconnect drive
widows loads fine. I loaded .inf file but this might have to be
removed and installed again. Then again I am just guessing at this
point.

"John" <ModelMan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have floppy with MoBo RAID drivers and need to know how to
install. I have Googled to no end about the process. I see no
setup files on floppy that I can run. I try booting with XP CD
but system refuses to work. Anyone have any tips?

Thanks
MM


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