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I am trying to set up a new system with an 8RDA3+, Western Digital WD800JD
80GB serial ATA HD, Barton 2500, and 512 MB Crucial PC-3200B DDRAM.
The SATA drive is not recognized by the motherboard. I have enabled "Sil
3112 Serial ATA" in the "Integrated Periphersls" page of the BIOS, set
SCSI/SATA as a boot device, but get a "Drive not found" message for the
primary and secondary SATA channels during boot. Pressing F4 to enter the
RAID BIOS setup has no effect. The drive appears to power up normally. I've
tried the SATA cables on both channels. I have tried two SATA data cables,
and tried both a SATA power cable and a "legacy" power cable. There is a
DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel, nothing on the primary, and no cards
except the video card installed.
While I had little hope that it would work, I tried to get Win XP Pro to
partition and format the drive, but installation hangs at "Setup is starting
Windows", although I load the Silicon Image SATA driver after pressing F6
during installation. I have also tried the Western Digital dldiag.exe
diagnostics program, but it hangs during boot.
The motherboard / chipset documentation and the driver provided is for SATA
RAID, and not the use of a single SATA drive. In fact, I can't be certain
from the documentation that use of a single SATA drive is even supported,
but it must be -- right?
As I have access to only one SATA hard drive and one SATA motherboard, I
can't test each with "known good" components.
Any ideas?
I am trying to set up a new system with an 8RDA3+, Western Digital WD800JD
80GB serial ATA HD, Barton 2500, and 512 MB Crucial PC-3200B DDRAM.
The SATA drive is not recognized by the motherboard. I have enabled "Sil
3112 Serial ATA" in the "Integrated Periphersls" page of the BIOS, set
SCSI/SATA as a boot device, but get a "Drive not found" message for the
primary and secondary SATA channels during boot. Pressing F4 to enter the
RAID BIOS setup has no effect. The drive appears to power up normally. I've
tried the SATA cables on both channels. I have tried two SATA data cables,
and tried both a SATA power cable and a "legacy" power cable. There is a
DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel, nothing on the primary, and no cards
except the video card installed.
While I had little hope that it would work, I tried to get Win XP Pro to
partition and format the drive, but installation hangs at "Setup is starting
Windows", although I load the Silicon Image SATA driver after pressing F6
during installation. I have also tried the Western Digital dldiag.exe
diagnostics program, but it hangs during boot.
The motherboard / chipset documentation and the driver provided is for SATA
RAID, and not the use of a single SATA drive. In fact, I can't be certain
from the documentation that use of a single SATA drive is even supported,
but it must be -- right?
As I have access to only one SATA hard drive and one SATA motherboard, I
can't test each with "known good" components.
Any ideas?