SATA drives dont show up

Habanerosky · 06-28-2006, 10:44 PM

I recently installed two seagate 80gb SATA drives (in specs), but they dont show up in windows. They both show up in the device manager, but not in "my computer". I have tried countless times to hook them up in RAID but it doesnt work. Also, what is Nvidia raid? Its the only way that i can even get them to show up in any RAID nterface, but when i try to use it to RAID 0 them and still use my raptor as boot disk, it doesnt read any of them. The XP install doesnt recognize either (even with the ASUS floppy driver). I would like to use these in a stripe array and get rid of the twop IDEs, but how do i get them to show? Is it a problem with the drives, a problem with the mobo, or a problem with my configuration?

thanks

UPDATE:

I was able to get XP to recognize the drives, but they are not raided... (i used acronis disk director, thanks Foirentina) is there a way i can raid non-active/primary drives without using the bios or any other firmware? (if i trry to use nvidia it still wont let me boot using my raptor)

**The_Other_One** · 06-28-2006, 10:48 PM

Do they show up in computer management? If so, you probably just need to format them and/or assign a drive letter to them

Habanerosky · 06-28-2006, 11:05 PM

thats what i did, but now i cannot raid them... if i use nvidia raid then it tells me i have them in a raid 0 and the other two diskd in JBOD, but when windows starts to load it shows the blue screen of death then crashes...

Dngrsone · 06-29-2006, 03:47 AM

Did you install the RAID drivers?

bball4life · 06-29-2006, 04:11 AM

I think I may know your problem, if they are 3gb/s sata 2 hdd and your mobo only supports raid 1, mainly if its a cheaper mobo, then you need to add a jumper Seagate Support. I had the same issue with a mobo I put in a new build.
But then again your mobo should handle it fine with its sata 2 support, you could also try this it is supposed to help out as well, seagates seem to be having trouble getting their hdd recongnized as of late.

Trizoy · 06-29-2006, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bball4life

I think I may know your problem, if they are 3gb/s sata 2 hdd and your mobo only supports raid 1, mainly if its a cheaper mobo, then you need to add a jumper Seagate Support. I had the same issue with a mobo I put in a new build.
But then again your mobo should handle it fine with its sata 2 support, you could also try this it is supposed to help out as well, seagates seem to be having trouble getting their hdd recongnized as of late.

Excellent post.

bball4life · 06-29-2006, 04:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trizoy

Excellent post.

Why thank you, its a good time for this post too, because I was just troubleshooting the same problem last night

. Still don't know if it will work though, lets hope so for both of us.

Habanerosky · 06-29-2006, 06:09 AM

Looks like hte second link you gave me will help me out a lot, i might be able to raid 0 them after all... I have been looking for a driver that would work because silicon image's drivers have not been having any effect...

That was a helpful post though, Thanks for doing the research.

Habanerosky · 06-29-2006, 07:00 AM

I got the drives to be recognized in the bios, it was kind of a confusing matter. Instead of having it on RAID mode, for 3gb/s i had to switch it to SATAII mode then use nVidia RAID and disable the SATA ports that had hard drives that are not to be RAIDED.

I got windows to load normally, but now the RAID 0 array wont appear, i only get the new hardware message along with the faulty installation wizard. It keeps trying to install a mass storage controller (what i imagine the raid controller is).

Any advice?

Trizoy · 06-29-2006, 07:16 AM

Just making sure, you did install a Sata driver...

"Press f6 to load raid/sata drivers"
-Then load the sata drivers

06-28-2006, 10:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Habanerosky Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Englewood/Tampa, FL Age: 20 Posts: 155	SATA drives dont show up I recently installed two seagate 80gb SATA drives (in specs), but they dont show up in windows. They both show up in the device manager, but not in "my computer". I have tried countless times to hook them up in RAID but it doesnt work. Also, what is Nvidia raid? Its the only way that i can even get them to show up in any RAID nterface, but when i try to use it to RAID 0 them and still use my raptor as boot disk, it doesnt read any of them. The XP install doesnt recognize either (even with the ASUS floppy driver). I would like to use these in a stripe array and get rid of the twop IDEs, but how do i get them to show? Is it a problem with the drives, a problem with the mobo, or a problem with my configuration? thanks UPDATE: I was able to get XP to recognize the drives, but they are not raided... (i used acronis disk director, thanks Foirentina) is there a way i can raid non-active/primary drives without using the bios or any other firmware? (if i trry to use nvidia it still wont let me boot using my raptor) __________________ i like computers Last edited by Habanerosky; 06-28-2006 at 10:50 PM.

06-28-2006, 10:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
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06-28-2006, 11:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
Habanerosky Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Englewood/Tampa, FL Age: 20 Posts: 155	thats what i did, but now i cannot raid them... if i use nvidia raid then it tells me i have them in a raid 0 and the other two diskd in JBOD, but when windows starts to load it shows the blue screen of death then crashes... __________________ i like computers

06-29-2006, 03:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
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06-29-2006, 04:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
bball4life Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somewhere.... Posts: 1,423	I think I may know your problem, if they are 3gb/s sata 2 hdd and your mobo only supports raid 1, mainly if its a cheaper mobo, then you need to add a jumper Seagate Support. I had the same issue with a mobo I put in a new build. But then again your mobo should handle it fine with its sata 2 support, you could also try this it is supposed to help out as well, seagates seem to be having trouble getting their hdd recongnized as of late. Last edited by bball4life; 06-29-2006 at 04:19 AM.

06-29-2006, 06:09 AM	#8 (permalink)
Habanerosky Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Englewood/Tampa, FL Age: 20 Posts: 155	Looks like hte second link you gave me will help me out a lot, i might be able to raid 0 them after all... I have been looking for a driver that would work because silicon image's drivers have not been having any effect... That was a helpful post though, Thanks for doing the research. __________________ i like computers

06-29-2006, 07:00 AM	#9 (permalink)
Habanerosky Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Englewood/Tampa, FL Age: 20 Posts: 155	I got the drives to be recognized in the bios, it was kind of a confusing matter. Instead of having it on RAID mode, for 3gb/s i had to switch it to SATAII mode then use nVidia RAID and disable the SATA ports that had hard drives that are not to be RAIDED. I got windows to load normally, but now the RAID 0 array wont appear, i only get the new hardware message along with the faulty installation wizard. It keeps trying to install a mass storage controller (what i imagine the raid controller is). Any advice? __________________ i like computers

06-29-2006, 07:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
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