SATA drive not recognised

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Lu_weed

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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???????????????
 
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.
 
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).
 
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...?
 
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.
 
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