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A7N8X Delux SATA Driver problem
Hi,
I Installed a single Seagate Barracuda 80gb hard drive on the above board (primary SATA). On installing XP I use the driver from the cd copied to floppy and the installation works fine. The problem is that on loading, Windows hows that no driver is installed for the Sil Raid. Obviously with only one Drive the Raid feature is not applicable, but nevertheless I presume a driver for the controller should be installed. No matter which driver I use for the Sil - when I reboot - the system seems to try to load in short bursts of 5 seconds (ie the blue indicator on loading XP moves for a few seconds then stops, moves again then stops etc), after around 20 minutes the system still hasn't booted into XP. I have tried the drivers on the CD, and from the Sil web site - have upgraded the BIOS to 1007 and retried installing the drivers but the same happens. The raid utility loads ok and shows the drive is running in UDMA 6 (was PIO). Sandra benches the drive at 32,000 which I would guess is a little too low for this setup. Any advice? Can a single drive be used or does the SATA HAVE to be in a RAID config? The board is Rev 2.0 btw. TIA |
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Hmm. This is almost definitely a driver problem. (And yes - you CAN run a
single SATA drive...with no RAID involvement whatsoever) Regrettably, I cannot offer anything further except this: do you have the boot sequence [in the BIOS] set to SCSI as first device? Please post a follow-up. Ron |
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Thanks for the reply.
Yes I do, The drive runs as long as I do not install a Windows driver, just that I guess not at it's full potential. On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 02:31:09 -0500, "Ron" wrote: Hmm. This is almost definitely a driver problem. (And yes - you CAN run a single SATA drive...with no RAID involvement whatsoever) Regrettably, I cannot offer anything further except this: do you have the boot sequence [in the BIOS] set to SCSI as first device? Please post a follow-up. Ron |
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Zoney wrote:
Hi, I Installed a single Seagate Barracuda 80gb hard drive on the above board (primary SATA). On installing XP I use the driver from the cd copied to floppy and the installation works fine. The problem is that on loading, Windows hows that no driver is installed for the Sil Raid. Obviously with only one Drive the Raid feature is not applicable, but nevertheless I presume a driver for the controller should be installed. Yeah, ideally :-) No matter which driver I use for the Sil - when I reboot - the system seems to try to load in short bursts of 5 seconds (ie the blue indicator on loading XP moves for a few seconds then stops, moves again then stops etc), after around 20 minutes the system still hasn't booted into XP. You need to use the RAID driver, even when not using RAID capability. The non-RAID driver will not work. I have a copy of the drivers I'm using he www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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