Re: esata on MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum with a VANTEC NST-360SU-BK

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Allthough winxp sp2 is supposed by default to recognise sata
drives/controlers there are apparently people who have problems unless they
use the F6 option in the installation or repair of winxp to install raid
drivers from floppy.
With regard nvidea chipset sata I recollect on a mobo I had with this sata
controler, it also had Sil, there was a driver on the mobo cd that had to be
specifically installed. It apparently wasnt installed by default when I
installed other mobo cd drivers.
PS I also initially had a new K8n neo4 plat. which I had problems with,
using Sil sata - I forget exact problems, some time ago - I rma'd it for a
Gigabyte mobo with Sil and Nvidea sata, allthough I now use an Adaptec sata
card and have used nvidea sata at the same time.

<bkandor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1145363025.928976.103930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Problems with OpenServer 6
    ... I was able to install the 7.1.4d IDE driver on my ... you should set: Configure SATA as to AHCI ... If your drives weren't in AHCI mode originally, ...
    (comp.unix.sco.misc)
  • Re: Problems with OpenServer 6
    ... to them exactly and there is nothing that prevents the IDE driver from ... I was able to install the 7.1.4d IDE driver on my ... you should set: Configure SATA as to AHCI ... If your drives weren't in AHCI mode originally, ...
    (comp.unix.sco.misc)
  • Re: Install Vista from SATA DVD drive?
    ... struck by the sudden fear that the mobo won't be able to use the SATA ... so how will I install Vista from the DVD? ... In the end I landed up downloading the sata driver floppy creation ...
    (uk.comp.homebuilt)
  • [SLE] SuSE 10.0 on a Dell Dimension 9150 w/SATA drives -- Success!!
    ... I wanted to run the drives in SATA mode, ... I found out that I needed to use the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter during the install. ... I fixed the problem by downloading the fglrx driver from ATI, building the driver, running fglrxconfig, changing the window manager back to 'kdm,' and re-booted. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: SATA harddrive Setup
    ... To combine the effects of an original install CD and a Service Pack ... version I used to make myself a Win2K SP4 install disk. ... driver, and that should work with any Nvidia NF3/NF4 chipset port. ... Your board has some SATA ports connected to the Nvidia chipset. ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)