Re: SATA & IDE in same computer

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You have RAID 1 or Mirroring installed. IF you set the RAID BIOS to show the drives you will then see them on boot up. IF you weren't using RAID controller then they would show up like you are expecting to see.

RangeRover 11 wrote:

Bob I, Cquirke, or anybody,

I would appreciate help on a S-ata issue that no one seems to get. I am
a tech and I ALLOWED the techs at the shop where I got my PC to
assemble it.
Here it is:
I have an ASUS A8N-Sli (not deluxe)
Two Maxtor 200gb S-ata HDD's
AMD X2 4200+
4X's 512 Corsair ValueSelect (mistake I know)

Problem is sort of a mystery. I have read the thread about Master/Slave
(it's all master with S-ata, IMHO) and I have a question you might
understand better than I since Hardware is my soft side.
To be brief, The Nvidia Raid controller that is built in the MoBo seems
to show a Healthy Raid 0 of 200gb
In the BIOS the drive config is as follows:
1-4 master/Slave IDE
1-4 S-ata
ALL enabled
No HDD's are recognized. It's as if I had no drives installed.
From what I understood, the BIOS should automatically detect the S-ata 
drives (so says ASUS)
I think that maybe the techs just didn't configure the BIOS correctly
or set it up in the correct order. I am surprized that it boots. When I
go into the BIOS, I would expect to see my drives and not to see all
drives/channels enabled.
I am thinking about tearing it all down and starting over, but this
will be my first Raid setup with these specs. I don't want to mess it
up.
Also, the 4gb of RAM is set to 333MhZ and I want it at 400., that's why
I got DDR400 in the first place...
I know the MoBo will default to 333 from factory for stability with
some memory modules. The problem is that it's set to 333, all following
config is Auto and trying to change it to 400 doesn't seem to change
anyhthing once inide Windows and is benchmarked.
Please give advice if this makes any sense and what I ca do about the
mem settings which won't change if it is put to 400 and Auto. It just
says 400 with all other variables the same and seems to still be
running at 333.
I can be more specific if anyone will kindly post, just running off to
fix someone else's PC while I am a little stumped by mine.
P.S. I would like a dual boot system but don't see how that is possible
with Raid 0 (assuming no third party software is involved)

Thank you,
Range Rover 11


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