SATA drive not recognised

Lu_weed · 06-25-2005, 09:36 PM

I recently bought a SATA hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb) to add to my existing system, but it wont recognise it. My motherboard is an ECS KT600-A, with VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver. 2.21. My current hard drives, both 80gb, are set up on a PCI ATA raid controller, on raid 0. my motherboard has nothing preventing SATA (jumpers, etc)

Heres what i've tried:

-disconnecting my other drives and beginning from scratch, but i recieve the error message "hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!" "Bios does not be installed, press <g> to continue"

-the drive sounds like its working fine

-flashing a bios update, but the error "unknown flash type" appears continously, despite trying numerous flash utilities/updates and ensuring no bios protection.

what else can i do???????????????

jesbax · 06-25-2005, 11:05 PM

check your bios to see if it need to actived.

Lu_weed · 06-26-2005, 01:08 AM

activated? do u mean checking the jumpers, etc, cos ive done all that

kof2000 · 06-26-2005, 02:45 AM

from my exp, i tried having a ide as boot drive and sata as storage it is a pain in the ass

i went with sata as boot and ide as backup its easier.

but since you said it wont detect i dont know how u gonna send the content to your sata.

sata's faster so it would be nice to boot from it.

j0hn00 · 06-26-2005, 04:11 AM

Quote:

check your bios to see if it need to actived.

He meant that you might have to enable SATA in BIOS.

NeuromancerWGDD'U · 06-26-2005, 05:24 AM

Your drive should have come with a CD. Try booting from the CD and partitioning/formatting from there. With mine, after I did that, my OS recognized it, and I installed the RAID controller drivers from my motherboard driver cd (if you can't find your motherboard's driver cd, go to the manufacturers website, they'll have the drivers there).

Lu_weed · 06-26-2005, 02:28 PM

Well seagate provide a program to run in order to recognise their drives, but it runs in windows, so if the drive isnt picked up by the mother board in the first place, it doesnt do anything. SATA is enabled on the MB since when i disconnect ALL drives, it searches for SATA drives. But if i then connect SATA drive the error message (see top) comes up.

Im still a novice, but this sounds like a prob with the Bios...?

NeuromancerWGDD'U · 06-28-2005, 08:11 AM

With mine I also had to set up an array (before the mobo could recognize it). If you have all the jumper settings correct than there should be a screen that comes up during the BIOS boot-up (after the POST) that says something to the effect of "press ctrl-f to enter disk array setup". Go into that setup, it should show you the connected drive, and ask you if you want to add it to an array. After saying yes the computer should restart, and you should have access to the drive.

06-25-2005, 09:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lu_weed New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 10	SATA drive not recognised I recently bought a SATA hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200Gb) to add to my existing system, but it wont recognise it. My motherboard is an ECS KT600-A, with VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver. 2.21. My current hard drives, both 80gb, are set up on a PCI ATA raid controller, on raid 0. my motherboard has nothing preventing SATA (jumpers, etc) Heres what i've tried: -disconnecting my other drives and beginning from scratch, but i recieve the error message "hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!" "Bios does not be installed, press <g> to continue" -the drive sounds like its working fine -flashing a bios update, but the error "unknown flash type" appears continously, despite trying numerous flash utilities/updates and ensuring no bios protection. what else can i do???????????????

06-25-2005, 11:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
jesbax Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: NE Age: 30 Posts: 337	check your bios to see if it need to actived. __________________ my spelling sucks bad so bear with me. The Rig--(upgraded) amd athlon 64 x2 4800+ 4gb ram 300 gb hdd x2(raid) 80 gb hdd x2(raid) 52x cd-rw 16x dvd+rw dl ati Radeon 9550 256 mb

06-26-2005, 02:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
kof2000 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oahu Age: 28 Posts: 6,273	from my exp, i tried having a ide as boot drive and sata as storage it is a pain in the ass i went with sata as boot and ide as backup its easier. but since you said it wont detect i dont know how u gonna send the content to your sata. sata's faster so it would be nice to boot from it. __________________ QX9650@4.2 swiftech \|9600@3.0 9700 nt 780i \| 790fx 8gb ddr1200 \| 8gb ddr1200 2x150gb 3x1tb \|2x250gb 3x8800gtx \|3x2900xt 1gb 2x20xdvdrw \|2x20xdvdrw 15in1 card reader \|15in1 card reader ng15/g9 \|ng15/g9 1200w psu \|1200w psu 2x28" LCD \|2x28" LCD

06-26-2005, 05:24 AM	#6 (permalink)
NeuromancerWGDD'U Gold Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: I miss Oregon... Age: 20 Posts: 478	Your drive should have come with a CD. Try booting from the CD and partitioning/formatting from there. With mine, after I did that, my OS recognized it, and I installed the RAID controller drivers from my motherboard driver cd (if you can't find your motherboard's driver cd, go to the manufacturers website, they'll have the drivers there). __________________ My little machine: S423 Pentium 4 1.3Ghz, 4x256 16-bit RIMM RAM, 32MB TNT2 video card. I think it may be time to upgrade... The upgrade! My machine will soon be a 939 X2 4000+, 4x512 DDR400, and an 8600GTS.

06-28-2005, 08:11 AM	#8 (permalink)
NeuromancerWGDD'U Gold Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: I miss Oregon... Age: 20 Posts: 478	With mine I also had to set up an array (before the mobo could recognize it). If you have all the jumper settings correct than there should be a screen that comes up during the BIOS boot-up (after the POST) that says something to the effect of "press ctrl-f to enter disk array setup". Go into that setup, it should show you the connected drive, and ask you if you want to add it to an array. After saying yes the computer should restart, and you should have access to the drive. __________________ My little machine: S423 Pentium 4 1.3Ghz, 4x256 16-bit RIMM RAM, 32MB TNT2 video card. I think it may be time to upgrade... The upgrade! My machine will soon be a 939 X2 4000+, 4x512 DDR400, and an 8600GTS.

06-26-2005, 01:08 AM	#3 (permalink)
Lu_weed New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 10	activated? do u mean checking the jumpers, etc, cos ive done all that

06-26-2005, 02:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
Lu_weed New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 10	Well seagate provide a program to run in order to recognise their drives, but it runs in windows, so if the drive isnt picked up by the mother board in the first place, it doesnt do anything. SATA is enabled on the MB since when i disconnect ALL drives, it searches for SATA drives. But if i then connect SATA drive the error message (see top) comes up. Im still a novice, but this sounds like a prob with the Bios...?

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