Problem adding new SATA Controller

[Paul]

Hi Guys

Having run out of space on my main SATA RAID drives I decided to add a new,
much larger drive - also a SATA.

I want to keep the original configuration but *simply* add a new drive.

My motherboard (ASUS A7N8X-E) is home for the original RAID drives and has
only two SATA connectors so I have bought a PCI SATA card for the new
drive - the card is a Promise SATA300 TX2+, the new disk is a Maxtor
Diamondmax 250Gb.

Now, I have installed the drive and the card and get problems as follows:

If I power up the drive and connect it to the card I get a message from the
new controller card during the boot sequence saying 'IDE Bus Enabled' and
then nothing, it just hangs.

If I try booting without the disk attached to the card I get a message 'No
device is found, BIOS is not installed' and then it hangs.

As I can't get as far as Windows XP loading, I have not yet installed any
drivers that came with the card - do you think I need to do this first?

Is there something I'm missing? The controller card is supposed to be PnP so
I thought this would be simple........

Any help would be very gratefully received - thanks in advance!

Paul

 

[Oldish sod]

Hi Guys

Having run out of space on my main SATA RAID drives I decided to add a
new, much larger drive - also a SATA.

I want to keep the original configuration but *simply* add a new drive.

My motherboard (ASUS A7N8X-E) is home for the original RAID drives and has
only two SATA connectors so I have bought a PCI SATA card for the new
drive - the card is a Promise SATA300 TX2+, the new disk is a Maxtor
Diamondmax 250Gb.

Now, I have installed the drive and the card and get problems as follows:

If I power up the drive and connect it to the card I get a message from
the new controller card during the boot sequence saying 'IDE Bus Enabled'
and then nothing, it just hangs.

If I try booting without the disk attached to the card I get a message 'No
device is found, BIOS is not installed' and then it hangs.

As I can't get as far as Windows XP loading, I have not yet installed any
drivers that came with the card - do you think I need to do this first?

Is there something I'm missing? The controller card is supposed to be PnP
so I thought this would be simple........

Any help would be very gratefully received - thanks in advance!

Have you checked the boot order settings in the BIOS? It may
be trying to boot from your new SATA card/drive instead of your
onboard controller/drives. You may also have to go into the SATA
pci card's own BIOS during boot to configure your new drive as
non-RAID using the key sequence in the manual (just guessing about
this bit - no extra pci SATA controller on my a7n8x-e system.)
HTH,

 

[Paul]

Have you checked the boot order settings in the BIOS? It may
be trying to boot from your new SATA card/drive instead of your
onboard controller/drives. You may also have to go into the SATA
pci card's own BIOS during boot to configure your new drive as
non-RAID using the key sequence in the manual (just guessing about
this bit - no extra pci SATA controller on my a7n8x-e system.)
HTH,

I suspect you're on the right lines ROb - thanks for your input - but I've
checked the BIOS and it appears to be correctly set with the first boot
device as HDD0 which I've always taken to be my first HD - maybe the PCI
card has altered this?

I can't see anything in the PCI card's manual to allow me to get to it's
BIOS settings - is there a conventional key or sequence for such things?
Sorry if some of this is obvious!

Thanks

Paul

 

[Michael Hawes]

I suspect you're on the right lines ROb - thanks for your input - but I've
checked the BIOS and it appears to be correctly set with the first boot
device as HDD0 which I've always taken to be my first HD - maybe the PCI
card has altered this?

I can't see anything in the PCI card's manual to allow me to get to it's
BIOS settings - is there a conventional key or sequence for such things?
Sorry if some of this is obvious!

Thanks

Paul

May be faulty, or...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?Item=N82E16816102064
Mike.