Re: SATA Controller and no floppy drive

From: Darrell Gorter[MSFT] (Darrellg_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 02:30:37 GMT

Hello Justin,
Sounds like that driver is not seeing that controller or hardware is not
setup properly.
All that happens is that setup reads the disk, loads the driver from the
disk.
It then uses that driver to talk to the controller. If the driver is
correct for the controller it loads and scans for disks.
It displays all the disks that it finds. Since you are not seeing disks,
this could things like:
 that is not the correct driver for that controller, the cabling is not
correct to the drives, the drives are not attached, the drives are not
working, the controller is not working, the controller is not enabled in
the bios if that option exists
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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>hi there

i'm also doing a fresh install

- i have tried both windows 2000 serevr & server 2003

the server i'm installing it on is new out of the box, i get to the part
where i insert the disk with the SATA Controller drivers on it,

they load fine, but when i go to select a disk to which i want to install
my OS on, i only can see IDE HDD's ?

is this normal ?

is there a way around it ?

the SATA card im using is - Promise FastTrak S150 SX4

thanks for your time

cheers

Justin Canino
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