Re: Won't boot from SATA drives
- From: Tony MS <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:37:20 +0000
I used a driver supplied on an ASUS CD that came with the MB - Si3112r.sys.
So there must be a SATA driver somewhere in the BIOS, used for BOIS setup and bootstrapping, and this one, used by XP from load-time onwards.
Tony
Paul wrote:
Tony MS wrote:.
Hi Paul
You're right that I've never been there before. When I ctr-S, it shows a RAID setup screen, and displays basic data on the 2 SATA disks.
The system has been working non-RAID since I assembled it.
Cheers
Tony MS
So then, if you booted from it when it had the two drives on it,
what driver were you using ? Were you booted from some other
drive, and only used the two SATA for data ?
There are SIL3112 drivers listed here for WinXP, but they are
divided according to whether the BIOS module is RAID or BASE.
And the one in the Asus BIOS would be RAID.
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=63&cid=3&ctid=2&osid=4&;
Maybe I'm missing something, and the IDE driver will work with a
RAID BIOS. I don't know where you'd find a good reference on the
subject. (If I check the .INF file in the driver download,
I don't find a SUBSYS ID that matches an Asus board, so the
driver probably won't even "take" if you try it. Asus SUBSYS
is 1043, and the other four digits correspond to the motherboard
or PCI card.)
The <control-S> thing probably wouldn't work unless two drives
were connected. If one drive was connected, and already was
marked as a RAID array, that would probably work. But to
get the BIOS module to load, if no array had been declared,
you might need two drives to do that.
If you still have access to the boot disk with the WinXP install
on it, and you could look for driver files, maybe you can figure out
what it is using from that.
Paul
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