Yet another SATA question

[Mike Nelson]

Hello to all pc builders.
I have a system with an Asus A7N266-VM/AA board.
I only had one Maxtor IDE (pata) hard drive. When I needed more
storage capacity, I bought a second hard drive. I got a Western digital
SATA drive My Asus board does not have a Sata connector, So I
bought an inexpensive PCI card with a Sata connector (Rosewill RC-205).
The Maxtor IDE hard drive has always contained the M$ XP operating system.
Never had any problems whatsoever with anything, all worked great.

Now the Maxtor IDE hard drive has failed, and instead of buying
another IDE drive, I wanted to use the SATA driveonly, it is plenty big.
The problem is that I cannot get the system to recognize the Sata drive
without first loading an operating system from an IDE drive.
I have tried changing settings in the CMOS BIOS, but it will not find
the SATA only drive.

I don't know if what I want to do can be done. I was wondering if a
different PCI to SATA card might help, but I would have to buy online.
There are no places around where I live that have such a card, and
buying online is a pain in the A@# if you have to return anything.

Can anyone please help me to understand if it can be done,
and if so how ? Maybe somebody has had better luck with some
different kind of PCI to SATA Card.

Thanks for any help you might offer
please reply to the group.

Mike

 

[Andy]

I'm assuming the BIOS on the RC-205 card announces itself during POST
and identifies the drive connected to the card?
Under the Boot menu in the motherboard BIOS setup, set the Other Boot
Device to SCSI Boot Device. This should cause the motherboard BIOS to
boot the SATA drive.
If you're installing Windows you have to load the RC-205 driver via
F6 method during setup.

 

[Mike Nelson]

Yes, the card does show up during post, but it does not indicate connected
to the
drive. I cannot load drivers during windows setup (f6), because setup will
not
start. This seems to be because no drive is found. I tried the scsi boot
order,
but still no luck. To summarize, card is recognized, but drive is not. It
all worked
before. But not without the IDE drive along with it.

Thanks Mike