P4c800 an SATA HD

[serge foresti]

I have a P4c800 deluxe with a SATA Maxtor 120 Go on the SATA port connected.
The promise controleur do not see my HD als a SATA drive but a ATA100 drive
and sais
"drive not found", "bios is not installed"

What can i do?

 

[Craig]

You say it's on the Promise controller, but do you have two HD's that you
are trying to make into a RAID drive? If not, and you only have the one
hard drive, don't put it on the Promise controller, there is another SATA
hook up next to it.

Craig

 

[Angeleno]

I have a P4c800 deluxe with a SATA Maxtor 120 Go on the SATA port connected.
The promise controleur do not see my HD als a SATA drive but a ATA100 drive
and sais
"drive not found", "bios is not installed"

What can i do?

Go into the BIOS and disable the RAID Option for the Promise controller. By default it's enabled. It
can be run as a simple (non-raid) SATA bus this way.

 

[FairMan]

There are two ways.

If you connect S-Ata to S-Ata connector then you can disable Promise in
Bios because S-Ata connecter doesn't work with Promise controller. Your read
burst speed will only bee about 87 Mb\s with this connection.

If you connect too Raid connecter and set Bios to Promise enabled and IDE
mode. Then you use Promise controller and the message "drive not found",
"bios is not installed" dissaperes. You will get a Read Burst speed that is
much higher with this connection.
HD-Tach shows 87Mb/s for the first connection and over 200Mb/s for the
second one. Over 200 must be too high to be true but its much faster.

Hope it helps

FairMan