STUFF IT- I'm outta here, Asus K8v deluxe, Athlon 64 3200 and two 512 meg
sticks of Corsair 3200 pro, 4 80 gig Sata HDD's and we have lift off.

All built and working stably and 'clocked within a week, the gigabyte board
etc has been relegated to my emergency second box with only pata hdd's, the
Sil3112 was slow and terribly fubar'd - it never did work properly (a major
IRQ problem within the board design I think).

Bye all.

"El Kapitano"

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It's a rev. 1.2 mobo. Tried f1, 2, 3 ,4 and 6 bios'.

HDD's are Maxtor Dmax Plus 9's 6Y080M080 Gb serial Y2QZ5Q0E and Y245BK9E
and
firmware for both is YAR51EW0.

Can the MBR not be moved over and the boot ini altered?

I have Ghost 2003 and Drive Image 2002 will one of these work?

Thanks Dimitris.


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Update.

I have retrieved my old GXP120 40gig dual raid 0 array on the promise
onboard controllerso I now have a working PC again.

Tha sata pair I left in place for kicks and has been seen and
installed
by
XP, strange thing is the icon isn't a drive icon but after formatting
it
is
working but 3 Mb slower in transfers than the promise which is
highlydissapointing.

Maybe the UDMA mode of the sata drive is not set at high number.
I may try a dual boot install and then remove the OS from the promise
pata
array and boot from the SATA see if things improve (any ideas as to
how
to
go about this?).

Andy


Well if you boot again with the winxp cd and choose to install windows
xp on the sata drives wont work? Even if you manage to install it,
then by removing completely the first operating system(e.g formatting
the promise raid array) the system most likely wont boot cause the
main boot sector and boot.ini file would be on the promise array.

Anyway, what is the revision of your motherboard and the exact models
of the maxtor drives, their firmware bios version and the date of
production? You can see this info on the sataraid utility by silicon
image.