Second SATA no show on A7N8X-DX

Hi all,

I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
does not show up in Windows.

I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Does it show up in drive manager?


"Vormulac" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
does not show up in Windows.

I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Yes, under 'Disk Drives' in Device Manager there are two identical drives
listed.

"DDStech" wrote in
ink.net:

Does it show up in drive manager?

Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?


"Vormulac" wrote in message
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Yes, under 'Disk Drives' in Device Manager there are two identical drives
listed.

"DDStech" wrote in
ink.net:

Does it show up in drive manager?

There's no information of that nature there, just the usual box you
would expect to see in Device Manager saying the device is working
properly, there are following tabs available:
General,

Policies (no selectable options),

Volumes, which after pressing the 'Populate' button provides the
following data;
disk - Disk1,
type - Unknown
status - Not Initialized
partition style - Not Applicable
capacity - 70904 MB
unallocated space - 70904 MB
reserved space - 0 MB

SCSI Properties, with two unchecked boxes 'Disble tagged queuing' and
'Disable synchronous tranfsers',

Driver (all the usual Driver Details and Roll BAck buttons,

Details, a huge drop down menu of details about the device such as
'Device Instance Id' SCSI\DISK&VEN_WDC_WD74&PROD_0GD-00FLA0&REV_21.0\5&
82F5F2C&0&100 - but nothing really useful.

I would assume that this drive needs formatting or something of that
nature, as it seems that Windows is 'seeing' it alright, but I don't
know how. When I went into the Silicon RAID setup during boot-up, there
was the option to perform a 'low level format', but there didn't appear
to be any way to select which one of the 2 drives to format - not
useful!




"DDStech" wrote in
ink.net:

Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?

Ah, now I understand. If you right click on "my computer", then select
"manage", there is a MMC called "Disk Management" in the left hand column.
If you select this, it will allow you to partition and format your drives.


"Vormulac" wrote in message
43.37...
There's no information of that nature there, just the usual box you
would expect to see in Device Manager saying the device is working
properly, there are following tabs available:
General,

Policies (no selectable options),

Volumes, which after pressing the 'Populate' button provides the
following data;
disk - Disk1,
type - Unknown
status - Not Initialized
partition style - Not Applicable
capacity - 70904 MB
unallocated space - 70904 MB
reserved space - 0 MB

SCSI Properties, with two unchecked boxes 'Disble tagged queuing' and
'Disable synchronous tranfsers',

Driver (all the usual Driver Details and Roll BAck buttons,

Details, a huge drop down menu of details about the device such as
'Device Instance Id' SCSI\DISK&VEN_WDC_WD74&PROD_0GD-00FLA0&REV_21.0\5&
82F5F2C&0&100 - but nothing really useful.

I would assume that this drive needs formatting or something of that
nature, as it seems that Windows is 'seeing' it alright, but I don't
know how. When I went into the Silicon RAID setup during boot-up, there
was the option to perform a 'low level format', but there didn't appear
to be any way to select which one of the 2 drives to format - not
useful!




"DDStech" wrote in
ink.net:

Can you provide more information? No options to create or dlelete
partitions? Basic? Dynamic? NTFS, FAT32?

My Raptor is coming Tuesday, how is it?


"Vormulac" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm having a problem I hope you can shed some light on. I have Windows XP
w/SP2 running from a 74Gb S-ATA WD Raptor. As it refuses to let me install
my older IBM deskstars as well I have installed a second Raptor.
The problem is that although in BOOT up, when it shows the Silicon RAID
screen it acknowledges that there are 2 drivs in there, the second drive
does not show up in Windows.

I appear to have no way to format it or access it at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

An outstanding drive, very fast. I definitely recommend it!

"DDStech" wrote in
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My Raptor is coming Tuesday, how is it?

Ah-ha, it's me being thick!

Sir, you are a gent and a scholar, my second Raptor is formatting as we
speak.

Thank you very much for your help I hope you're as happy with your
Raptor as I have been with mine.



"DDStech" wrote in
ink.net:

Ah, now I understand. If you right click on "my computer", then select
"manage", there is a MMC called "Disk Management" in the left hand
column. If you select this, it will allow you to partition and format
your drives.