HELP? A8n-sli deluxe and WD Sata cavier

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Hello all, and thank you in advance for lending a hand to my piftiful
self.
I recently put together a new system:

A8n-sli deluxe mobo-1003 bios version
Athlon 64-3500
single ASUS 6600GT Extreme PCIe
2x512 Corsair Twinx1024-3200c2pt ddr400 xms3200 blsh blah blah
Single 7200 RPM WD 80gb Cavier ATA drive, (which I bought because of my
problem, although the problem still exists)
2 WD SATA 120gb Cavier drives
All housed in a ThermalTake TsunamiDream case, (Thermaltake 400PSU)
Thermaltake A1744 Venus12 Fan
Windows XP Pro

OK, So I wanted to only install the 2 WD sata drives, but was not able
to get them to mount, either in BIOS, or Windows. Therefore, to avoid
trouble at first, I bought the ATA 80gb to throw on the OS and at least
get started. I loaded both the SI and Nvidia raid drivers through the f6
driver install on Windows XP install. Windows only saw the 80gb. In
Bios, (mind you I have the drive hooked up to the Nvidia sata1 and
Nvidia sata2 ports on the board,) the set up shows something present
for SATA1 and SATA2, represented in both cases as a blank, but does not
show (none) as it does for the empty ports. However This does me little
good. Ports are enabled in the BIOS, but it only shows blanks, no
drives. I originally tried this with the 1st iteration of the BIOS, but
have flashed to 1003, and same thing. If I set it to auto-detect, the
post screen hangs at detecting array. I have not tried to access the
drives though windows via-my computer-manage-storage-disk management,
but I do not know if this would recognize anything anyway.
I am not certain that the drives are fulling spinning up, which may be
something I need to look at, but I would expect 1 drive problem as a
worst case-scenario, and not both. There appears to be a slight
vibration touching the top of the drives, but with the 5 fans, DVD, and
DVD-rw, and the ATA drive all running, I cannot differentiate sound from
the 2 SATA drives from anything else. I am probably missing something
really stupid, but if you call me stupid and point me in the right
direction I will appreciate it anyway. Any and all help would be
greatly appreciated.


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primedrctv wrote:

> Ports are enabled in the BIOS, but it only shows blanks, no
> drives.

Did you enable the nForce RAID in the mobo's bios? You need to enable
nVidia RAID in general, and specify for which SATA drives you want RAID
to work. Next, you enter the nVidia RAID bios and setup the RAID from
there. Then you boot again, load the RAID drivers with f6 during install
and all should be fine.

Either that, or you may have plugged the drives onto the wrong SATA
plugs - like I did

 

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In article <primedrctv.1kikjo@news.computerbanter.com>,
primedrctv.1kikjo@news.computerbanter.com says...
>
> Hello all, and thank you in advance for lending a hand to my piftiful
> self.
> I recently put together a new system:
>
> A8n-sli deluxe mobo-1003 bios version
> Athlon 64-3500
> single ASUS 6600GT Extreme PCIe
> 2x512 Corsair Twinx1024-3200c2pt ddr400 xms3200 blsh blah blah
> Single 7200 RPM WD 80gb Cavier ATA drive, (which I bought because of my
> problem, although the problem still exists)
> 2 WD SATA 120gb Cavier drives
> All housed in a ThermalTake TsunamiDream case, (Thermaltake 400PSU)
> Thermaltake A1744 Venus12 Fan
> Windows XP Pro
>
> OK, So I wanted to only install the 2 WD sata drives, but was not able
> to get them to mount, either in BIOS, or Windows. Therefore, to avoid
> trouble at first, I bought the ATA 80gb to throw on the OS and at least
> get started. I loaded both the SI and Nvidia raid drivers through the f6
> driver install on Windows XP install. Windows only saw the 80gb. In
> Bios, (mind you I have the drive hooked up to the Nvidia sata1 and
> Nvidia sata2 ports on the board,) the set up shows something present
> for SATA1 and SATA2, represented in both cases as a blank, but does not
> show (none) as it does for the empty ports. However This does me little
> good. Ports are enabled in the BIOS, but it only shows blanks, no
> drives. I originally tried this with the 1st iteration of the BIOS, but
> have flashed to 1003, and same thing. If I set it to auto-detect, the
> post screen hangs at detecting array. I have not tried to access the
> drives though windows via-my computer-manage-storage-disk management,
> but I do not know if this would recognize anything anyway.
> I am not certain that the drives are fulling spinning up, which may be
> something I need to look at, but I would expect 1 drive problem as a
> worst case-scenario, and not both. There appears to be a slight
> vibration touching the top of the drives, but with the 5 fans, DVD, and
> DVD-rw, and the ATA drive all running, I cannot differentiate sound from
> the 2 SATA drives from anything else. I am probably missing something
> really stupid, but if you call me stupid and point me in the right
> direction I will appreciate it anyway. Any and all help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
> --
> primedrctv
>
Use the Silicon Image controller instead of the NVidia, much better.