Do I need an IDE drive to install SATA drives?

JustinJustin Atlanta
edited February 2004 in Hardware
Total noob question here, I am trying to install WIn XP home on a new system and I am only using two SATA drives set to Raid-0. Asus SK8V mobo, Athlon 64 FX-51, Corsair XMS 3200, Nvidia 5950, yada yada... DO I neda and IDE drive to make this happen? Win XP won't setup because it says no HDs are installed, the book for the mobo says that I need to go to BIOS/advanced/IDE setup but that desn't seem to exist. Please Help!!!!

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    You need the a disk for the raid drivers and hit F6 when the XP installation starts. Theoretically it should work :D
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    When you first boot off the XP CD, do you see that line at the bottom that says "Hit F6 to install third party drivers"?

    Hit F6 then. Put in the floppy with the SATA drivers on it.

    Then XP can see your drives.

    //EDIT: I see VoE beat me to it. But it's f6, not f5 :D
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited February 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    When you first boot off the XP CD, do you see that line at the bottom that says "Hit F6 to install third party drivers"?

    Hit F6 then. Put in the floppy with the SATA drivers on it.

    Then XP can see your drives.

    //EDIT: I see VoE beat me to it. But it's f6, not f5 :D

    Don't even need the floppy do you? Well my P4C800-E works with no floppy, which is good since I don't own a floppy drive, nor did it come with a floppy with the sata drivers on it.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    depends on your SATA interface, because some might have drivers builtin winxp, and some don't.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited February 2004
    All I have is a CD. No floppy disk. Tried it and it says to insert disk into drive A. I don't think the CD will fit... :smile: any other ideas? Is there something I am not doing?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    do you have a floppy drive?

    You need to go to the asus website and download the raid drivers, and unzip them and put them on a floppy disk.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited February 2004
    No floppy drive in this box, there is one in the problem system though, I was afraid that would come back to haunt me. If I were to put an IDE drive in there, could I do it then? Just load windows as normal, get it fully setup, then setup the striping, and proceed as such, then get the drivers on a floppy, remove the HD, reinstall with the drivers on floppy, and have that be the only HD setup?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    just plug the floppy drive in temporarily.. Hang it out the side, you don't need to mount it or anything. XP installer is sucky in this regard - it's very difficult to install 3rd party drivers without a floppy drive. It's way way easier just to hang a temp floppy drive off the side of the box while you are installing the system.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited February 2004
    OK, got the box up and running, :rockon: everything is fine but Windows is still not picking up the drives, I put and addtional Seagate IDE in to get the system up and running, the ASUS VIA RAID tool sees that the drives are configured but they aren't showing up in My Computer. What is up with that? :shakehead
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    It's been said once, so Il say it again anyway...

    You need the Serial ATA controller drivers installed into your system. Either by pressing F6 during install.. or if Windows is on another drive.. by installing the drivers off the CD provided with the board, the floppy or the latest from the website ;)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2004
    Justin wrote:
    ...ASUS VIA RAID tool sees that the drives are configured but they aren't showing up in My Computer...
    Make sure you've done what Shorty said. Then, if you want to leave Windows on the IDE drive, try right-clicking on My Computer, then left-click "Manage". Click on "Disk Management" and see if there are any unformatted partitions in the list of drives at the bottom.

    If you have Partition Magic you could copy your installation over to the SATA drive and keep on truckin'.
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