Re: SATA drives

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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RAID required two identical drives so that option should not have been
available.

"Og" <Og@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jocular Jock" <Jocular Jock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just upgraded my motherboard to an ASrock 939NF4G-SATA2, with an
AMD
Athlon 3500+ processor, 1gb RAM and a 250gb SATA drive. Running XP home
edition. I had lots of data on 3 IDE hard drives, so I installed those
drives
when building the machine and boot to one of them. However, I just
cannot get
XP to recognise the SATA drive. I have enabled the SATA bit in BIOS. Can
anyone help?

1. Did you install the SATA drivers for the motherboard chipset?
2. In BIOS did you enable SATA drive, or SATA RAID?
Steve

Here is the sequence:
Step #1. Enable RAID in System BIOS
Step #2. Having performed Step #1, reboot and enter the RAID BIOS to set up
the RAID array.
If one performs Step #1 and neglects Step #2, the RAID controller will,
indeed, report its presence to Windows.
(One can, indeed, perform Step #1 even if there are zero drives attached to
the system.)
If the OP enabled RAID boot in System BIOS rather than enabling single SATA
boot drive, Windows will be looking to the RAID controller for a
(non-existent) drive.
Steve


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