Windows XP/Serial ATA Problem

From: R M Berry (aggped_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:23:40 GMT

This was initiated on a different newsgroup, but I thought I would try it
here, and see if anyone can assist:

I am building a new PC, and have the following hardware:

Hitachi 160GB SATA Hard Drive
ASUS K8V Motherboard

The motherboard recognizes the hard drive no problem, but when I try to
install XP Pro, it doesn't. I downloaded a driver from ASUS, and did the F6
route on setup. Setup found the driver (a WinXP Promise SATA378 Controller)
on the floppy and seemed to run the driver, but still doesn't see the drive.
What next??

-- So far I've had the following suggestions, and replys:

FIRST RESPONSE:
Your motherboard has 2 controllers. Try connecting the drive to the other
one.

VT8237 RAID controller and The Promise 20378 RAID controller

REPLY:
I would think that since the motherboard does see the hard drive just fine
in the BIOS that the controller shouldn't matter. But thank you!

SECOND RESPONSE:
Are you sure your drives are on the promise controller?
If so there are two drivers available for it. One is for
using it in RAID mode and the other for normal SATA.
There's a setting in the BIOS to choose the mode you
want. It looks to me like your using the driver for
normal SATA.

Jim M

THIRD RESPONSE:
To put it in simple terms.

BIOS settings for the SATA device must be reflected by the driver you put
onto the floppy.

If there are any diifferences, of course Windows will not access the drive
correctly.

No ifs, ands or buts. There is only one way it works, that is the right
way.

REPLY:
The problem is that I've tried the driver that came off the CD with the
motherboard, as well two other newer drivers I downloaded from the ASUS
website. None have worked. Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to have to
scrap the SATA drive and go with a good-old-reliable IDE one....

That's where it stands...
Thanks,
Robert

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