A7N8X deluxe, SATA DVD-RW problems

[steve]

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Well, not really problems, just annoyances.

Fry's had a deal on the Plextor PX-712A SATA DVD-RW drive, so I've got
one and it works nicely.

But, on boot, the stupid Sil3112 bios detects the drive, then just
sits there (ctrl-s or f4 to set up raid) until I hit a key.

Anyone seen this before? Normal behavior, or something peculiar to
using a DVD-RW drive on this controller? Any way around it?

--Steve

 

[Guest]

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Do you have it plugged into SATA 1 or Sata 2??
peterk

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"Steve" <shamm@austin-not-me.rr.com> wrote in message
news:8ikhb1lghotp1jjts18l5kd8gqq4r5pp93@4ax.com...
> Well, not really problems, just annoyances.
>
> Fry's had a deal on the Plextor PX-712A SATA DVD-RW drive, so I've got
> one and it works nicely.
>
> But, on boot, the stupid Sil3112 bios detects the drive, then just
> sits there (ctrl-s or f4 to set up raid) until I hit a key.
>
> Anyone seen this before? Normal behavior, or something peculiar to
> using a DVD-RW drive on this controller? Any way around it?
>
> --Steve
>

 

[steve]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:13:51 GMT, "peterk" <peterk@nomalarky.net>
wrote:

>Do you have it plugged into SATA 1 or Sata 2??
>peterk

It's plugged into sata2. Does it make a difference?

--Steve

 

[phantom]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

I have this MB and have heard that the SATA ports would only work for a SATA
hard drive and were incompatible with the low speed of an optical drive.
Later models of Asus motherboards do not have this problem.....
"Steve" <shamm@austin-not-me.rr.com> wrote in message
news:8ikhb1lghotp1jjts18l5kd8gqq4r5pp93@4ax.com...
> Well, not really problems, just annoyances.
>
> Fry's had a deal on the Plextor PX-712A SATA DVD-RW drive, so I've got
> one and it works nicely.
>
> But, on boot, the stupid Sil3112 bios detects the drive, then just
> sits there (ctrl-s or f4 to set up raid) until I hit a key.
>
> Anyone seen this before? Normal behavior, or something peculiar to
> using a DVD-RW drive on this controller? Any way around it?
>
> --Steve
>
>