Re: PCI IDE/RAID cards and Windows XP.

Hi,

What are you using to partition/format the drive? What does the disk manager
(diskmgmt/msc) say about it?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"AJMW" <alanwenham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112256614.081819.154190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am trying to employ an SiL 680 Ultra ATA/133 RAID card in IDE mode to
> give me an additional channel for a spare hard disk which I have. The
> relevant details of my system are listed below. I am using the latest
> driver for the SiL board.
>
> The problem is that, whichever PCI slot I use, the mobo BIOS sees the
> board and identifies the drive attached to it. Windows recognises the
> board and Device Manager says that it is working properly with no
> problems. However, whether the HD is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS,
> Windows does not see it.
>
> The relevant hard drive is not faulty as is shown by substituting it
> into one of the onboard IDE channels. There is no reason to believe
> that the RAID card is faulty.
>
> Does anybody know if this is a known bug? Is there a setting in Windows
> which I have overlooked?
>
>
>
>
> Abit KT7 motherboard on which the onboard IDE controller has two hard
> disks (120GB and 20GB) and two CD-ROM drives installed.
> Windows XP Pro SP2, fully updated.
> AMD Athlon 1000MHz.
> 512KB memory.
>


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