SATA help...RAID...please...searched everywhere...HELP ME! :aol:
Ok, I searched, and searched, but couldn't find an exact answer to what I needed, so heres my new thread to get some help here.
I'm currently doing my first "RAID" setup, whilst using the SATA on the NF7-S. I've got my main 40GB HDD for windows and what not in a cooling peripheral, so that won't really be touched by anything, and its IDE, and will be my boot drive. As far as my RAID is concerned, I've got 8 Western Digital 80GB 8MB Cache drive, and I've got them both hooked up, or what appears to be hooked up, with the IDE/SATA adapters, and have got them both plugged into each of the SATA plugs....and they both have power.
I turned on SATA in bios, and went and installed the drivers in the floppy drive. Now I try to enter the "SATA setup utility" by pressing F4 or CTRL-S at boot...yet it doesnt let me go in, and it says that neither drive is deteted on either channel....
What in the world am I doing wrong here??? Someone who knows what they are doing, please tell me where and why I'm hitting a brick wall. Thanks!
I'm currently doing my first "RAID" setup, whilst using the SATA on the NF7-S. I've got my main 40GB HDD for windows and what not in a cooling peripheral, so that won't really be touched by anything, and its IDE, and will be my boot drive. As far as my RAID is concerned, I've got 8 Western Digital 80GB 8MB Cache drive, and I've got them both hooked up, or what appears to be hooked up, with the IDE/SATA adapters, and have got them both plugged into each of the SATA plugs....and they both have power.
I turned on SATA in bios, and went and installed the drivers in the floppy drive. Now I try to enter the "SATA setup utility" by pressing F4 or CTRL-S at boot...yet it doesnt let me go in, and it says that neither drive is deteted on either channel....
What in the world am I doing wrong here??? Someone who knows what they are doing, please tell me where and why I'm hitting a brick wall. Thanks!
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Look in the manual for motherboard, if need be the one in Acrobat Reader form on the CD that came with it or the website, about how to turn on RAID and how to choose between what combo of drives you want in box. Lots of the moherboards with SATA grab secondary IDe when SATA is enabled, and have multiple mapping modes. Also check and see if your board supports BOTH IDE RAID and SATA, it might be set to SATA with the IDE RAID BIOS popping up. Question, though, do you have a version 2.0 or earlier board???
Second, third, and fourth, I will leave to other folks....
John D.
It's a bit strange that you can't get into the SATA Bios. You need to press the key/key combination at the same time as when the SATA Bios information is being displayed during POST (just before Windows presumably loads). You may also have the jumpers on the hard drives wrong. SATA drives don't use jumper settings, but your drives are setup to act as PATA not SATA (even though most SATA drives are still essentially PATA drives with a built in SATA adapter). It will probably have no effect, but just make sure the jumpers on both your WD's are set to cable select and that of course the adapters are properly connected, power cable and all.
Have a read of the motherboard manual just to double check you've got everything where it should be. Have another mess about, and if you still can't get them to detect, or even get into the SATA Bios, then post back and I'll have a think what else you can try.
Cheers
p.s (Just to clarify - Your motherboard should have two PATA sockets and two SATA sockets/plugs, for RAID you will need to plug your drives into the two SATA sockets/plugs)
I'll go set both of them to cable select, but I'm sure the first one is on cable select...so wouldn't that detect at least that drive? Meh...I can't figure out why It won't let me press the key combo to get into the bios...but I'll go try it again real fast...maybe update my bios real fast, even though I know its recent.
I'll post back in a few.
Now, after the restart, after the driver install...it gets to the windows boot screen...loads about half of the "windows boot image"...and just sits there, its like a very low opacity windows picture just frozen on the screen....I dunno, this happens everytime I try to install the SATA drivers. What the hell is goin on?
One of my drives is now deteted through the SATA utility...both drives are formatted...but only one is seen through the utility which = no RAID for me. Why won't my other drive be detected? I r confused! LoL
Btw, its not another WD 80...its an IBM Deskstar 80GB....shouldn't make a difference in the ability to see the drive though, right?
If the Deat... Deskstar cant be seen, try other jumper settings.
The fact that you haven't got the drives setup properly yet in the SATA bios, may be the cause of your troubles in Windows. You should forget about installing drivers and what not, and just focus on getting them properly setup as hardware components first. You may find once you've done that, all your Windows issues disappear.
Keep us posted.