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Anyone know why I cannot get the Silicon SATA controller to work as just an SATA controller without RAID? I just want to use it to add another 4 hard drives, bun in this case a 5th SATA.

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"Guest" wrote in message
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Anyone know why I cannot get the Silicon SATA controller to work as just an
SATA controller without RAID? I just want to use it to add another 4 hard
drives, bun in this case a 5th SATA.

On Tue, 16 May 2006 02:06:38 +0000, Guest wrote:

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Three things,

1) Don't post in HTML. Newsgroup posts should always be in plain text.

2) What operating system are you using? Nobody can help you without this
fundamental piece of information. If you are using Windoze have you
bothered to install the appropriate drivers? If you are using Linux, which
distro and which kernel are you using?

3) What are you BIOS settings? The BIOS on the MSI board allows you do
enable and disable various features of the RAID controllers on the board.

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 02:06:38 +0000, Guest wrote:

Anyone know why I cannot get the Silicon SATA controller to work as just
an SATA controller without RAID? I just want to use it to add another 4
hard drives, bun in this case a 5th SATA.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
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controller to work as just an SATA controller without RAID?  I just
want to
use it to add another 4 hard drives, bun in this case a 5th
SATA./FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML


Three things,

1) Don't post in HTML. Newsgroup posts should always be in plain text.

2) What operating system are you using? Nobody can help you without this
fundamental piece of information. If you are using Windoze have you
bothered to install the appropriate drivers? If you are using Linux, which
distro and which kernel are you using?

3) What are you BIOS settings? The BIOS on the MSI board allows you do
enable and disable various features of the RAID controllers on the board.



I am using Xp, SP2 and the latest(1.C0) MSI Bios. I would really hate to
sell the left over drive.

1) Don't post in HTML. Newsgroup posts should always be in plain text.

2) What operating system are you using? Nobody can help you without this
fundamental piece of information. If you are using Windoze have you
bothered to install the appropriate drivers? If you are using Linux, which
distro and which kernel are you using?

3) What are you BIOS settings? The BIOS on the MSI board allows you do
enable and disable various features of the RAID controllers on the board.



I am using Xp, SP2 and the latest(1.C0) MSI Bios. I would really hate to
sell the left over drive.

Have you gone into the BIOS to see if you can configure the RAID
controller as JBOD? There might be another way to do it also, when booting
there is an opportunity to set up the RAID controller. I haven't tried it
because I'm not using it on my MSI K8N Neo4 but I suspect that you ought
to be able to configure it as JBOD at that time.

Also have you checked to see if there are any drivers available for XP?