XP setup can't identify SATA drive

[Ron]

I've been using a 160GB SATA drive off a SIIG controller card for
several weeks as a backup drive and have decided to make it my XP boot
drive, but have encountered a problem with the XP install. During
setup, the SIIG driver is accepted, but at the partitioning screen,
setup says "there is no disk in the drive" and shows the drive as
"157066MB disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on si3112 (MBR)". The next screen says
"setup must write some startup files on this disk. However, this disk
does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition." When I create a
partition and select it, I get the same message. Before starting the
install, I disconnected my IDE drives and enabled SCSI/ATA 100 in the
BIOS. What else should I try?

 

[Michael Stevens]

I've been using a 160GB SATA drive off a SIIG controller card for several
weeks as a backup drive and have decided to make it my XP boot drive, but
have encountered a problem with the XP install. During setup, the SIIG
driver is accepted, but at the partitioning screen, setup says "there is
no disk in the drive" and shows the drive as "157066MB disk 0 at Id 0 on
bus 0 on si3112 (MBR)". The next screen says "setup must write some
startup files on this disk. However, this disk does not contain a Windows
XP-compatible partition." When I create a partition and select it, I get
the same message. Before starting the install, I disconnected my IDE
drives and enabled SCSI/ATA 100 in the BIOS. What else should I try?

Did you press F6 to install the drivers?
http://www.siig.com/faq.asp?faqid=10050949
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[Michael Stevens]

OOPS, I see you did.