Re: esata on MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum with a VANTEC NST-360SU-BK
- From: bkandor@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 18 Apr 2006 05:23:45 -0700
Hi Anna,
I understand about the driver.
My motherboard (msi k8n neo4 platinum) has to sets of internal raid
ports. 4 are part of the nforce4 chipset and 2 run off of a silicon
image chipset. My C drive is a sata drive on the nvidia chipset. I
have a mirrored array running on the sil3132 chipset.
Even though like you say if I have sata drives already there shoud be
no problem recognizing the esata enclosure - It still is not recognized
when plugged into any of the nvidia nforce43 sata ports. In fact the
system hangs in bios trying to detect them.
To experiment, I unplugged the array and tried plugging the backplane's
internal sata cable into it. Surprise!! the esata enclosure drive
shows up in the sil3132 bios no problem. But there is a problem: On
this motherboard the sil3132 can be set in bios to run in raid mode or
sata mode. Either way you need a driver in winxp to enable the
controller. When it's set to SATA mode the driver wont install
properly in windows. I found loads of people (even reviewers)
complaining about the same thing.
SO I'm still stuck here. Thanks for your help.
Kandor
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