switch to SATA RAID driver

bobbybobby
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
Hi guys,

I have a GA-7N400Pro2 (Rev2.0) m/b and am using a Seagate 120Gb SATA hdd to boot off. It is currently set up as BASE in BIOS and using SATA IDE drivers 1.00.47. I get the page file warnings and disk errors which other people have experienced.

Apparently the solution for is to use the RAID BIOS setting and RAID drivers instead of the BASE drivers, for all configurations of hdds.

So, I want to change my setup, but dont want to reload windows. Is it possible to uninstall the BASE driver, change BIOS to RAID, then install RAID driver successfully or is a format reload the only way?

Cheers,

Bobby.

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  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited July 2004
    bobby wrote:
    Hi guys,

    I have a GA-7N400Pro2 (Rev2.0) m/b and am using a Seagate 120Gb SATA hdd to boot off. It is currently set up as BASE in BIOS and using SATA IDE drivers 1.00.47. I get the page file warnings and disk errors which other people have experienced.

    Apparently the solution for is to use the RAID BIOS setting and RAID drivers instead of the BASE drivers, for all configurations of hdds.

    So, I want to change my setup, but dont want to reload windows. Is it possible to uninstall the BASE driver, change BIOS to RAID, then install RAID driver successfully or is a format reload the only way?

    Cheers,

    Bobby.
    Welcome to Short-Media mate. :)

    There are two drivers for your SATA controller, one for when it's running in BASE mode, another for when it's running in RAID mode (which essentially just means when in RAID mode, the controller is fully turned on, you can still use a single disk setup under RAID mode).

    The version number v1.0.0.47 is a SATA RAID driver version, not an IDE driver version. If you are using a driver set that carries that number, then you are using the RAID driver, which you shouldn't be because you're running your controller in BASE mode. The simplest thing to do would be to try the correct drivers. The IDE ones. The latest version number for those should be v1.1.0.52.

    However, I often recommend to people to run their controllers in RAID mode anyway, but if what you said is correct, then using the IDE drivers instead of the RAID ones should sort you out and you shouldn't have any need to swap which mode you run your controller in.

    As for changing from BASE to RAID mode without having to perform a re-install; I honestly don't know if you can do that easily, because I've actually never tried it. Part of me says it won't work, the other says it will work. You won't run the risk of losing any data though, it will either let you boot into Windows in RAID mode, or it won't. If it doesn't you can just change it back to BASE mode and it should then boot properly again.

    But like I said, you just need to install the correct drivers. You can get them from the Short-Media downloads section.

    Let us know how you get on.

    Cheers
  • bobbybobby
    edited July 2004
    I am actually running the sil driver: 1.1.0.52 which is the SATA IDE driver for BASE mode. I am going to back up my data, and give it a go trying to change to RAID driver and BIOS setup. If it doesnt work then ill just do a format reload. Hopefully this will get rid of the errors ive been seeing.

    Cheers for the help Spinner, Ill post back and let you know how I get on...
  • bobbybobby
    edited July 2004
    Ok then, I tried to uninstall the SATALink drivers; 1.1.052. I changed the BIOS setting to RAID but the PC wont boot then, gets to the loading WIn XP screen for a split second and then the screen goes blank, but you can still faintly see the Win XP loading screen. Anyway, it doesnt work.

    So the only way to switch drivers is to reload windows. Which makes sense because you supply drivers at the very start of the windows installation process, so the way in which is loaded is affected.

    After reloading windows using the RAID drivers and RAID BIOS setting, the disk errors were still there, and the page file errors still there. I then updated the RAID driver on windows update and since then I have had no error messages!!

    Fingers crossed thats fixed it!
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited July 2004
    bobby wrote:
    Ok then, I tried to uninstall the SATALink drivers; 1.1.052. I changed the BIOS setting to RAID but the PC wont boot then, gets to the loading WIn XP screen for a split second and then the screen goes blank, but you can still faintly see the Win XP loading screen. Anyway, it doesnt work.

    So the only way to switch drivers is to reload windows. Which makes sense because you supply drivers at the very start of the windows installation process, so the way in which is loaded is affected.

    After reloading windows using the RAID drivers and RAID BIOS setting, the disk errors were still there, and the page file errors still there. I then updated the RAID driver on windows update and since then I have had no error messages!!

    Fingers crossed thats fixed it!
    Cool! :thumbsup: Glad you got it sorted.
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