Abit IC7-G

[Bill Roberts]

Hi,



Saturday (2/21/04) I purchased a IC7-G and 2 Western Digital Serial ATA

120 GB HDD. I installed the motherboard in my case. I connected the

HDDs to SATA1 and SATA2 respecticely. I connected my Yamaha

cdrom/burner to IDE2 as master, and a dvd rom to IDE2 as slave. And I

connected my floppy. I installed a 2.8 GHz PIV and 1 GB of Kingston

DDR400 ram. I intended to format the HDD, load W2K and be on my way

with a brand new system.



I can boot to the floppy drive.



I can boot to the CDROM using a CD provided by Western Dgital. It is

intended to let you format the HDD (among other things). It does not

seem to recognize the HDD. It has a menu choice called "Set Up Your

HDD" - I expected to use this to format my brand new HDD. It shows the

folowing:



Primary Master - Open

Primary Slave - Open



Secondary Master - Yamaha CRW3200E

Secondary Slave - DVDROM 10X



This leads me to believe that the motherboard is not "seeing" the two

brand new drives. I believe that it is only "looking" at the IDE1 and

IDE2 chains.



I have read the motherboard users manual but find it difficult to

comprehend. I can not tell if this motherboard will support booting

from a SATA drive. I believe there should be some method within the

BIOS to do this, but I just can not interpret the manual. My ultimate

goal was to use the HDD in a RAID array. Can this be done(both drives

in a RAID array)? Can I boot to a SATA drive (one by itself)? I can't

format the drive until I can get the motherboard to recognize it; I

can't figure out the BIOS settings to do this.



Thanks for your help,

 

[Malcolm Function]

Sounds like Serial ATA is still disabled.

Check BIOS:

Integrated Peripherals -> OnChip IDE Device -> OnChip Serial ATA.