Do I have my SATA HDD installed correctly?

[David Mills]

In my BIOS, when I go into the Hard Disk Boot Priority Sub Menu, the only
thing I have listed is "bootable add-in cards", my HDD isn't listed, so that
means that it is not recognizing it, right? All I have is my DVD-ROM and my
SATA hard drive hooked up. I have 2 IDE slots, according to the mobo book,
the one on the left is IDE1 and the one on the right is IDE2. I have my
DVD-ROM connected to IDE2 and I have that set as MASTER. I tried switching
it to IDE1, but no matter which slot I connect it to, when I boot up, when
it lists the IDE devices, it say that it is on IDE 0 Master. I then have my
SATA HDD connected to the SATA 0 slot. There are 4 slots that go from top
to bottom. The top one is number 1, then it goes 0,2,3. The funny thing is
that during boot up, I have an option to press F10 and go into the RAID
setup utility and if I go in there, it recognizes my MAXTOR SATA drive, but
that is the only time that it lists it correctly. Since I only have one
HDD, I am not trying to setup RAID though.

Any ideas?

 

[John R Weiss]

I then have my SATA HDD connected to the SATA 0 slot. There are 4 slots
that go from top to bottom. The top one is number 1, then it goes 0,2,3. The
funny thing is that during boot up, I have an option to press F10 and go into
the RAID setup utility and if I go in there, it recognizes my MAXTOR SATA
drive, but that is the only time that it lists it correctly. Since I only
have one HDD, I am not trying to setup RAID though.

Any ideas?

My Promise SATA RAID controller requires that a single HD be initialized as a
'RAID 0 stripe' of 1 HD.

Go into your RAID Setup again, and try to get it to auto-configure, or look
further into the docs on setting up a single HD.

 

[kony]

My Promise SATA RAID controller requires that a single HD be initialized as a
'RAID 0 stripe' of 1 HD.

Go into your RAID Setup again, and try to get it to auto-configure, or look
further into the docs on setting up a single HD.

It won't allow setting a single-drive span? If not it seems
like a good model to avoid... what model?

 

[Jerry]

Did you check with the motherboard manufacturer and/or check out their
forums (if any)?

 

[William W. Plummer]

In my BIOS, when I go into the Hard Disk Boot Priority Sub Menu, the only
thing I have listed is "bootable add-in cards", my HDD isn't listed, so that
means that it is not recognizing it, right? All I have is my DVD-ROM and my
SATA hard drive hooked up. I have 2 IDE slots, according to the mobo book,
the one on the left is IDE1 and the one on the right is IDE2. I have my
DVD-ROM connected to IDE2 and I have that set as MASTER. I tried switching
it to IDE1, but no matter which slot I connect it to, when I boot up, when
it lists the IDE devices, it say that it is on IDE 0 Master. I then have my
SATA HDD connected to the SATA 0 slot. There are 4 slots that go from top
to bottom. The top one is number 1, then it goes 0,2,3. The funny thing is
that during boot up, I have an option to press F10 and go into the RAID
setup utility and if I go in there, it recognizes my MAXTOR SATA drive, but
that is the only time that it lists it correctly. Since I only have one
HDD, I am not trying to setup RAID though.

Any ideas?

My ASUS MB requires me to select "SCSI" for the SATA drive.

 

[John R Weiss]

It won't allow setting a single-drive span? If not it seems
like a good model to avoid... what model?

For a single drive, it doesn't matter if the controller calls it a stripe or a
span or a spot! The issue is that the RAID controller is still at work with a
single HD, so the RAID drivers must be loaded via floppy at the F6 prompt when
installing Windoze.

Promise 20378

 

[kony]

For a single drive, it doesn't matter if the controller calls it a stripe or a
span or a spot! The issue is that the RAID controller is still at work with a
single HD, so the RAID drivers must be loaded via floppy at the F6 prompt when
installing Windoze.

Promise 20378

It DOES matter what it calls it. It is logically set up
different on the drive. The difference is that a span is
transportable, a stripe is not. With a stripe you're stuck
using same/very-similar controller, unless this has changed
very recently. I do see your point though, about the
driver.