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p5wd2 doesn't recognize sata drives
hi,
i'm trying to install a fresh copy of winxp. i have two western digital wd2000js sata drives. the installation will not recognize the drives. i'm not using any sort of raid. and i have tried hitting F6 to install silicon image siI SATALink controller driver with no effect. and have tried letting xp installation try and recognize the drives with no effect. since i'm not using raid what bios settings do i need and do i need to jumper the drives a certain way? raid? sata2? ide? and does the mainboard need to be jumpered? thanks, dave |
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p5wd2 doesn't recognize sata drives
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"instant100" wrote: hi, i'm trying to install a fresh copy of winxp. i have two western digital wd2000js sata drives. the installation will not recognize the drives. i'm not using any sort of raid. and i have tried hitting F6 to install silicon image siI SATALink controller driver with no effect. and have tried letting xp installation try and recognize the drives with no effect. since i'm not using raid what bios settings do i need and do i need to jumper the drives a certain way? raid? sata2? ide? and does the mainboard need to be jumpered? thanks, dave 1) Do the drives appear in the BIOS screen ? Are they being recognized ? If the name of the drive "WD2000JS" is not seen in the BIOS, try jumpering the drive to 1.5Gb/sec operation. X X X X ^ | v X X X X 2) In section 4.3.6 of the manual, there is a picture just below the section title "IDE configuration". The settings shown in the picture should be enough to get you started. 3) Is the drive connected to one of the cluster of four SATA connectors ? Those connectors go to the Southbridge, and AFAIK no driver should be required via F6 for IDE operation. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Resources: http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...nguag e=en-us http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us From the download page: P5WD2 Premium [ 0709 ] ---------------------- Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx [ 0606 ] ---------------------- Fix CrashFree fail issue with ECC DRAM Fix WinXP can't be installed from a PX-716SA SATA DVD-RW drive in AHCI mode. Fix ECC initial incorrect Adjust low threshold of CPU fan. Support ATI CrossFire technology. HTH, Paul |
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p5wd2 doesn't recognize sata drives
i guess i need to back up a little. this system has no raid with two
sata drives. both are present in the bios. the bios is set to configure sata as raid. and the silicon 3132 controller is set to raid mode in onboard devices config. i don't know how this system was setup. i bought it new and it came with an image on it. (i'm trying to contact tech support right now to find out how they configured it). this system boots great and shows all drivers and controllers present. i just need to know how to get the fresh install of xp to recognize the two drives. do i really need to rejumper and recable these hdd and optical drives? |
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p5wd2 doesn't recognize sata drives
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"instant100" wrote: i guess i need to back up a little. this system has no raid with two sata drives. both are present in the bios. the bios is set to configure sata as raid. and the silicon 3132 controller is set to raid mode in onboard devices config. i don't know how this system was setup. i bought it new and it came with an image on it. (i'm trying to contact tech support right now to find out how they configured it). this system boots great and shows all drivers and controllers present. i just need to know how to get the fresh install of xp to recognize the two drives. do i really need to rejumper and recable these hdd and optical drives? The builder may have intended the system to be "RAID ready". You can enable RAID in the BIOS, but not actually configure the drives for RAID. At a later date, you can "migrate", with some restrictions, from your current non-RAID configuration, to some kind of RAID. The "RAID ready" aspect of the whole thing, has to do with driver installation. If the user has any _future_ intention of using RAID on the Southbridge, then the RAID driver has to be installed when Windows is installed. The problem is, you cannot install the RAID driver over the top of the IDE driver. The reason for that, is the "enumeration" of the Southbridge chip, says the chip is either RAID or it is not RAID, and when the system boots as IDE (chip is then set to non-RAID), the RAID driver cannot be installed unless the chip says it is RAID. Thus, the user has a chicken versus egg problem. Installing the RAID driver from day one, means you can use the drives in a RAID configuration or an IDE configuration. If you have no intention of ever using RAID (and based on the experiences on this newsgroup, I don't see much utility in it), then just setting the BIOS to an IDE configuration and using the vanilla driver provided by Windows, is good enough. This document hints at the two possible options. ftp://download.intel.com/support/chi...uick_Start.pdf "Setting Up a ³RAID Ready² System The following steps outline how to build an Intel ³RAID Ready² system with Windows XP installed on a single SATA hard drive. A ³RAID Ready² system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0 at a later date using the RAID migration feature built into Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0. This technology enables you to install a second SATA hard drive and then migrate to a RAID 0 Volume without reinstalling of the OS. 1. Assemble the system using a motherboard that supports Intel RAID Technology and attach one SATA hard drive. 2. Enter System BIOS Setup; ensure that Intel RAID Technology is enabled. This setting may be different for each motherboard manufacturer. Consult your user manual if necessary. When done, exit Setup. 3. Begin Windows XP Setup by booting from the installation CD. 4. At the beginning of Windows XP Setup, press F6 to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing the Intel RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the Intel 82801ER SATA RAID Controller¹ will be presented -- select this driver to install. 5. Finish the Windows XP installation and install all necessary drivers. 6. Install the Intel. Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0 software via the CD-ROM included with your motherboard or after downloading it from the Internet. This will add the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0 user interface utility that can be used to manage the RAID configuration. Post Migration Note: After completing a migration from a ³RAID Ready² configuration to a RAID 0 configuration (see user¹s manual for instructions), you will notice that the RAID 0 Volume is now the combined capacity of the two SATA hard drives, but the migrated partition size(s) is the same. This results in empty, unformatted space at the end of the RAID 0 Volume. To utilize this space, you will need to use Windows XP Disk Management to create another partition on the remaining empty space in the RAID 0 Volume or use a third-party application to expand the migrated partition to span the entire RAID 0 Volume." So, the above procedure, whether you use IAAR or the Intel Matrix software (whatever is appropriate for your chipset), allows ordinary IDE operation, until at some point you want to use RAID on the boot drive(s). If you visit Device Manager and examine what driver files are being used, and the names of the listed entities in the Device Manager, that can tell you a few things. Depending on whether a proper installer was used for the drivers, you may also find some interesting entries in the Add/Remove control panel, and that will give you further clues about how the system was built. On my systems here, every driver file installed on my computer, goes into a Successfully_Installed folder, while the blooper drivers that only caused grief, goes into my Avoid_At_All_Costs folder. If you keep a folder with all your current goodies stored in it, it makes a reinstall later a lot easier. But I still occasionally get burned. For example, a couple days ago, I wanted to switch video cards, pulling an Nvidia card and installing an ATI one. I go to look in Add/Remove, and there is no entry for the Nvidia driver package. I had used the CD that came with the video card, and the CD installed drivers without leaving an entry in Add/Remove. It took a bit of fiddling until I found a way to delete them, so I could remove the video card and swap in another one. When I put the Nvidia card back, this time I got a Forceware driver from the Nvidia site, as those leave an entry in Add/Remove. Having an entry in Add/Remove makes life a whole lot easier. Paul |
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p5wd2 doesn't recognize sata drives
hey Paul thanks for your time and patience and help. all i had to do
was install Intel Matrix Manager using F6 during xp install. the SATA drives are set to RAID in the BIOS and use the Intel 8280 1GR/GH SATA RAID Controller on the P5WD2. no muss no fuss. thanks again dave |
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