Re: SATA/IDE Adapter & XP



"Solar" wrote:

Before I installed XP Pro, recently, I was running Win2k Pro. My MB
doens't
have SATA onboard, so I had bought an IDE ported SATA card so I could
install a 160Gb HD. Under Win2k it worked great. No problemo. After
installing XP, updated drivers, and every trick I knew, XP wouldn't
recognise the card. So I gave up and bought another card thinking that
it
was the chipset, or poor drivers. And Lo, this new Roswell card will
install, IOW, XP says YEAH, it doth install correctly, and do worketh.
Right? Well, the HD is not accessable, nor does it show in Explorer.
Device Manager shows the Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink Controller, and
that it's working fine. However, Disk Management panel show not my WD
>>> HD 160Gb.

What am I overlooking?

Thanks.


"tfw48079" <tfw48079@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure, but you might need to go into the bios and activate the
drive(s).


"Solar" <ansgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've thought about that, but the BIOS only has IDE options. Also, I don't
recall having to do that with Win2k. So... I'm not sure either, what I'd
do in the BIOS.


Solar:
Let me say at the outset that we ran into so many non-recognition problems
with these add-on SATA controller PCI cards that unless it was crucial for
the user to install a SATA HDD in a system where the motherboard was not
SATA-capable we generally recommended against their use. Although I do have
to add that most of the time they did work without problems - at least the
later-generation cards.

Anyway, that's water over the dam insofar as you're concerned, so try
this...

1. In case you haven't done so, try another PCI slot to install the SATA
controller card.

2. You didn't say, but I assume the SATA HDD is not listed in the "Disk
drives" section of Device Manager. Assuming that's so, right-click on "Disk
drives" and click on the "Scan for hardware changes". Probably won't work
but give it a try. If it *does* result in the drive being recognized you may
have to do this all the time after bootup.

3. I can't remember if you need to jumper that WD SATA HDD in order to
configure it for the 1.5 Gb/s (SATA-I) data interface, so check that out.

4. I know you said that you didn't run into the same problem in a Win2K
system. You were using the same SATA controller card and the same SATA HDD?
So you're reasonably certain there's no problem with the disk itself?

5. If no go, you might want to check with Rosewill (as well as the manuf. of
the previous card) to see if they have anything to offer.
Anna


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