SATA drives dont show up

Habanerosky

Habanerosky

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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)
 
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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 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.
 
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bball4life said:
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.
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Excellent post.
 
Trizoy said:
Excellent post.
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Why thank you, its a good time for this post too, because I was just troubleshooting the same problem last night :D . Still don't know if it will work though, lets hope so for both of us.
 
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 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?
 
Just making sure, you did install a Sata driver...

"Press f6 to load raid/sata drivers"
-Then load the sata drivers
 
I installed the driver for SATA that I got from the ASUS website. It made no difference, and now the OS recognizes the existence of both HDDs, but not in RAID mode (I can just see them in the hardware manager). RAID was so easy with my old Aopen board... why is it so difficult now dammit!! :(
 
Not really, the asus manual reads as if it was written by non-english speaking people (which it probably was as it is an asian company). The only suipport it gives me as far as RAID is a diagram and a short message that reads something like, "you can change RAID configuration in the BIOS"
 
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