IDE SATA 64 bit Drivers for Promise Controllers, A8V

[John Hollingsworth]

Anybody any idea why there are no Promise 378 IDE (non-RAID) 64 bit SATA
drivers for this board.

Their 64 bit RAID drivers work fine with X64, as does pure PATA, but for
me its a nuisance as I don't want to use RAID.

Thanks.

John

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[Pearl]

Il Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:15:00 +0100, John Hollingsworth ha scritto:

Anybody any idea why there are no Promise 378 IDE (non-RAID) 64 bit SATA
drivers for this board.

Their 64 bit RAID drivers work fine with X64, as does pure PATA, but for
me its a nuisance as I don't want to use RAID.

I can't understand the problem. Use your RAID drivers in a non raid
configuration.

 

[John Hollingsworth]

Il Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:15:00 +0100, John Hollingsworth ha scritto:

I can't understand the problem. Use your RAID drivers in a non raid
configuration.

I don't want to use JBOD, I want to run with a C: and a D:, 2 separate
SATA drives. Can I do that on a Promise controller, with the BIOS set to
RAID to enable the Promise RAID 64bit driver to work?

If I set the Promise RAID controller to "RAID" in BIOS then press "esc" to
continue booting without creating a RAID array, then X64 setup can't find
the SATA HDDS. So I still think there needs to be specific IDE Promise
drivers to operate as I wish.

At present, I've got 2 x SATA drives on XP Pro and a PATA drive with X64,
and select with F8 on boot.

If you have an answer, I'd be pleased as I wanted to install X64 on a
partition on the C: SATA drive.

Thanks

John

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[SteveL]

I don't want to use JBOD, I want to run with a C: and a D:, 2 separate
SATA drives. Can I do that on a Promise controller, with the BIOS set to
RAID to enable the Promise RAID 64bit driver to work?

If I set the Promise RAID controller to "RAID" in BIOS then press "esc" to
continue booting without creating a RAID array, then X64 setup can't find
the SATA HDDS. So I still think there needs to be specific IDE Promise
drivers to operate as I wish.

At present, I've got 2 x SATA drives on XP Pro and a PATA drive with X64,
and select with F8 on boot.

If you have an answer, I'd be pleased as I wanted to install X64 on a
partition on the C: SATA drive.

Suggest trying the VIA SATA channels also available on the motherboard
instead of the Promise ports. They work in both Winxp 64 bit and 32.

 

[John Hollingsworth]

to >RAID to enable the Promise RAID 64bit driver to work?
"esc" to >continue booting without creating a RAID array, then X64
setup can't find >the SATA HDDS. So I still think there needs to be
specific IDE Promise >drivers to operate as I wish.
X64, >and select with F8 on boot.

Suggest trying the VIA SATA channels also available on the motherboard
instead of the Promise ports. They work in both Winxp 64 bit and 32.

Thanks - I've got the Via 64 bit drivers, I'll try them.

John

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