K8NS-939 SATA issue

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

This is the first Gigabyte board I've used to build a system. I
prefer Abit or MSI, but my buddy wanted a GB. So far, not a good
experience.

It's the K8NS-939 with a 3000 Winnie, 2x200GB WD 7200 drive trying to
run them with a RAID 1 on the NF3 SATA ports. The board will not
recognize the drives if they are both plugged in. It'll recognize if
I unplug one, but not both at the same time.

So I plugged one in, installed Windows XP Pro SP2 without any
problems. Then I plugged in the 2nd drive and enabled RAID in the
BIOS, but it just isn't picking up the drive. I switched the ports
with the Windows drive and it picked it up so I know both ports work.
I changed and pluged the empty drive and it picked it up so I know
both drives are good.

Any ideas? Bad motherboard? I will be calling Gigabyte later to see if
they have anything. It has the latest F2 BIOS BTW.

Ray

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

Hi,

RVachon <ray.vachon@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
#So I plugged one in, installed Windows XP Pro SP2 without any
#problems. Then I plugged in the 2nd drive and enabled RAID in the
#BIOS, but it just isn't picking up the drive. I switched the ports
#with the Windows drive and it picked it up so I know both ports work.
#I changed and pluged the empty drive and it picked it up so I know
#both drives are good.

Not to be too obvious, but could you have one good and one bad SATA
cable? Try swapping the cable on the working drive and see what happens.

Ken.
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