Hi all, I just bought a 750gb HD for my older system, but the raid controller (si3112) does not recognize the volume size during the initial boot up. If I have the new HD plugged in, I cannot access the raid utility to attempt to configure it there, and it will just give my my primary drive and its volume, then the secondary drive without a volume quantity, and lock up. If I unplug the new drive, load as usual, then plug in the new drive after the OS (win xp, sp3) is up, I can find, format, and use the new drive. After doing this, the sata controller still doesnt recognize the drive size (and halts loading) on reboot. I get the issue weither or not the old drive is connected or not, IE if I attempt to just have the new drive connected, as if I were going to do a fresh install, it still wont get me past post into loading options (be it HD, floppy or cdrom). Regular system bios loads, then the raid driver, and this is where I am getting stuck.
I have had no luck with the silicon image or asus bios and/or firmware updates, either they dont work, are up to date as far as I can tell, or I cant figure out how to flash/install the new ones (very cryptic cmd instructions that I cant manage to figure out) that dont come in an executable package. I have a feeling this is purely a device driver issue with the raid controller, but cannot manage to find a workaround.
Any help would be appreciated. My end goal is to just copy the old drive onto the new one and remove the old drive. new drive is a WD SATA3 750gb 7200rpm black edition. I am attempting to use the WD Acronis true image software to do the imaging, but it always says a reboot is needed to complete the operation, which puts me back to square 1.
Thank you for your time
I have had no luck with the silicon image or asus bios and/or firmware updates, either they dont work, are up to date as far as I can tell, or I cant figure out how to flash/install the new ones (very cryptic cmd instructions that I cant manage to figure out) that dont come in an executable package. I have a feeling this is purely a device driver issue with the raid controller, but cannot manage to find a workaround.
Any help would be appreciated. My end goal is to just copy the old drive onto the new one and remove the old drive. new drive is a WD SATA3 750gb 7200rpm black edition. I am attempting to use the WD Acronis true image software to do the imaging, but it always says a reboot is needed to complete the operation, which puts me back to square 1.
Thank you for your time