New SATA Drive

[Guest]

I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard
drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second
sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I go into
my bios, which I just updated, it show sata secondary "on" and shows hard
drive. I also dont get any beeps telling me that there is no secondary sata
drive. However, when I get into windows I dont get any hint of the new drive
being there. I go to disk management and see nothing, go to add new hardware,
nothing. Everything is attached, and I have also just updated my chipset
drivers as well. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hello,
When I added a new secondary SATA drive to my system I had to download a
Seagate program to set up the drive before I could see or use it(it is a
Seagate 320gig drive). Depending on what brand you have you may need to visit
the web site. I know Western Digital has the same sort of utility to Seagate.

 

[Snap]

if your running the drive as a slave then you need to be sure that the
slot you pluging the second drive into is not a Raid slot. If it is
then it will show the two drives as one if it worked or more likely the
second drive just wont work. Most Sata ready board have three Sata
slots the single drive slot and the Raid Drives slots. In order to raid
two drives they have to be the same in size and speed. The more common
the drives are to each other the better raid works.. Sounds to me like
your trying to install a master and slave drive into a set of raid
slots and this wont work the way you want it to. You can get a Sata PCI
card and run the slave off of that as a second drive for storage and
use the single slot on the board to run windows on the main Hard
drive...

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I do have raid shut off in the bios, and I thought that
sata0 was master, and with raid shut off sata1 was by default a slave drive
when set up. Is that not correct?

 

[Math1]

I just added another Sata HD to my Dell and had the same problem. I had to
go into the bios and turn on the Sata port. There are 4 in my Dell and are
numbered on the motherboard so I knew which to turn on,
Anne