forcing recognition of sataraid har drive

[Guest]

I will make this as specific has possible.

I just completed building a system.
I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
I installed a amd 3000+ processor
512 mgs of ddr ram

during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is where
the problem starts.

I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.

I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
windows xp home edition.

I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig harddrive,
however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.

the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except that
it was a SATARAID connect instead.

I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed it.
After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to recognize
the new drive.
I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt to
make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot change
over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.


When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt to
boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the sata
hard drive.
My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot and
install windows xp and use it primarily.

I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system board for
the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an recover the
software.

This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be able to
make into a single 160.
please help

 

[Guest]

ronnielee,

Disk Management can assign drive letters: right click Computer/My Computer,
select Manage and then Disk Management. I'm not sure about how this will
work on your system. Windows wants C drive to be the boot drive. If your
boot drive isn't the C drive, then I see a problem. You could try
adding/repairing the master boot record on the drive you want to make into
the boot drive. But you seem to be knowledgeable about this situation, so
you get the idea.

 

[David B.]

You need to provide the SATA controller drivers using a floppy and the F6
option when booting from your XP CD.
I'm curious as to where your getting a circuit board for your hard drive,
can't say I've ever seen a reseller for these.
That Hard drives doesn't have RAID connections, it is just plain old SATA.
Are you actually going to set up a RAID array? I can see no other reason for
buying a RAID controller.

 

[David B.]

Whoops, just realized I was in the Vista group, scratch the F6 suggestion.
You need to provide the SATA controller drivers on floppy, CD, or other
media during the setup process so the setup program can access the drive.

 

[Guest]

all of the drivers are installed. the windows xp environment recognizes the
drive. I understand that i need to get it to be the primary. However, when
i remove the hard drive with windows xp and keep the sataraid card and hdd in
the system but the bios does not recognize the drive and i do not get a boot
device.
I just attempted to reload the bios drivers and got a fatal error "rom erase
error" unable to load drivers. However, this disrupted the previous bios and
now i am unable to boot at all even to the bios screen.

 

[Dave B.]

The motherboard BIOS may not list a drive on a PCI controller card, it may
list the controller card as a boot option or nothing at all, but it should
boot from it when set to hard drive. What exactly do you mean by "bios
drivers"?
Do you mean you tried to flash the BIOS again? If you did that and it's now
not responding, you have likely killed it.

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