Serial ATA Drive

[R M Berry]

I am building a new PC, and have the following hardware:

Hitachi 160GB SATA Hard Drive
ASUS K8V Motherboard

The motherboard recognizes the hard drive no problem, but when I try to
install XP Pro, it doesn't. I downloaded a driver from ASUS, and did the F6
route on setup. Setup found the driver (a WinXP Promise SATA378 Controller)
on the floppy and seemed to run the driver, but still doesn't see the drive.
What next??

Thanks,
Robert

 

[RonK]

Your motherboard has 2 controllers. Try connecting the drive to the other
one.

VT8237 RAID controller and The Promise 20378 RAID controller

 

[R M Berry]

I would think that since the motherboard does see the hard drive just fine
in the BIOS that the controller shouldn't matter. But thank you!

 

[JBM]

Are you sure your drives are on the promise controller?
If so there are two drivers available for it. One is for
using it in RAID mode and the other for normal SATA.
There's a setting in the BIOS to choose the mode you
want. It looks to me like your using the driver for
normal SATA.

Jim M

 

[Guest]

To put it in simple terms.

BIOS settings for the SATA device must be reflected by the driver you put onto the floppy.

If there are any diifferences, of course Windows will not access the drive correctly.

No ifs, ands or buts. There is only one way it works, that is the right way.

 

[R M Berry]

The problem is that I've tried the driver that came off the CD with the
motherboard, as well two other newer drivers I downloaded from the ASUS
website. None have worked. Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to have to
scrap the SATA drive and go with a good-old-reliable IDE one....

 

[JBM]

Are you trying to use a single SATA drive?

The problem is that I've tried the driver that came off the CD with the
motherboard, as well two other newer drivers I downloaded from the ASUS
website. None have worked. Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to have to
scrap the SATA drive and go with a good-old-reliable IDE one....


put
onto the floppy. drive just see

 

[R M Berry]

Yes. I've never read that that wasn't possible. Plus the issue doesn't seem
to have anything to do with the number of drives - it's strictly that XP
can't seem to "see" through the SATA cable to the drive like the motherboard
can, no matter what driver I try to use....

 

[JBM]

Yes it is possible to use one drive on the promise controller. Have you
checked in the BIOS how the promise
controller is setup? ATA mode or RAID mode?
If it's set for ATA mode then use this driver.
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/down...=1&m_id=2&f_name=378ata_100104528.zip~zaqwedc

Jim M

 

[Rick]

It is my understanding with the K8V that the promise controller is the
one to use. I have not gotten my new MOBO yet but it is a K8V.

rick

 

[R M Berry]

Actually, after MUCH digging and searching, I was able to FINALLY locate a
driver that worked....