IDE Devices not recognized by XP

[Lynn Oliver]

I just put together a new system using an Intel D915PBL motherboard, which
only has one channel of IDE included. To handle two legacy PATA hard drives
and two ATAPI cdrom drives I added a PCI adapter (SiI PCI-680 chip on a
Belkin Ultra ATA133).

BIOS sees all of the drives, but XP only sees the ones attached to the
system board.

Any suggestions as to how I can troubleshoot this? I've tried a number of
BIOS settings but to no effect.

Thanks,
Lynn

 

[Rich Barry]

Lynn, rt click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. See if they
show up there and if you can rt click and
assign drive letters to them.

 

[Lynn Oliver]

I'm not even getting into Windows--I'm still trying to boot from cdrom and
install the OS.

For future reference, the instructions that seem to apply are at:
http://captain-trips.dyndns.org/treiber/enmic/571B/WinNT/readme.txt

Regards,
Lynn

 

[Jerry]

When you start the computer do you see anything on the screen to indicate
your PCI card is communicating with the attched hard drives?

On my other system I added a Promise SATA 150 TX2 plus/TX4 card because the
motherboard would not support ATA 100 drives, only ATA 33.

When the computer is started I can see the Promise card initializing on the
monitor and then I can see the two hard drives as the Promise card starts
them.

You should be able to see some indication as to whether or not the card is
being recognized by the system and if it's starting the drives.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

How are the drives connected? HDs on mobo and CD's on card?? According to
txt, change them around..
Also, in BIOS set it to bootorder to CD,floppy (if applicable) and then
HD...


<Snipped from txt file>
1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the PCI-680
controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up
the system.

2. Put your Windows NT/2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or
the NT/2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your
system cannot boot from the CD.

3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning
of text mode installation. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to
specify an additional device, and insert the diskette labeled
"Silicon Image ATA/133 Driver Installation Disk".
<snip>


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[RonK]

You need to hit F6 when prompted during the install. You will need the
drivers for the card on a floppy disk so XP can see the drives attached to
the PCI adapter.
..

 

[Andreas]

am 12/26/2004 um 6:34:08 PM schrieb Lynn Oliver:

I just put together a new system using an Intel D915PBL motherboard,
which only has one channel of IDE included. To handle two legacy
PATA hard drives and two ATAPI cdrom drives I added a PCI adapter
(SiI PCI-680 chip on a Belkin Ultra ATA133).

BIOS sees all of the drives, but XP only sees the ones attached to
the system board.

Any suggestions as to how I can troubleshoot this? I've tried a
number of BIOS settings but to no effect.

Thanks,
Lynn

i guess you want to install windows xp on a drive connected to the pci
adapter. During installation of win xp you need to press F6 (you see a
text line on the bottom of the screen saying something like " press F6
for additional SCSI and RAID drivers...") and insert a floppy disk with
the correct drivers. From what i could figure out on belkin's website
and the driver package you can download there this should be the files
PnP680r.mpd, PnP680r.sys, SiI680r.inf, SIISUPP.VXD and maybe
TxtSetup.oem.

HTH