SATA Drive Installation

I have been trying to install a third hard drive (Western Digital
250GB SATA) on my IC7-MAX3 SATA-3 port. I have not been able to get
the drive to show up. I have twin Western Digitals 36.7GB 10,000RPM
dives on SATA 1 & SATA 2 set up in a RAID 0 configuration. XP Install
was seamless.

I believe I have narrowed down the problem to three areas (1) The WD
250 is a dud (though it is spinning) (2) I have motherboard issues
with SATA 3 - SATA 6 (3) I am missing something in the BIOS set up
that is preventing me from getting devices on SATA 3 - SATA 6 to show
up.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

did you enable the SI SATA controller in the main bios? did you enable the
SI Raid ROM, which is not absolutely necessary but will at least tell you if
it sees the drive?

also, there has been at least one situation where the USB support in the
bios being set to BIOS instead of OS caused a problem with the SI
controller.

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I have been trying to add a 250GB HD to my new home built machine. I
have two Western Digital SATA 36.7GB running in a RAID 0
configuration. They work great and XP install was a breeze. Very Fast!

The third drive, a Western Digital 250GB SATA drive is hooked up to
SATA-3 on my ABIT IC7-MAX3 Board. The Windows device manager shows the
drive as being a SCSI drive and shows it as working properly. The
drive however is not accessable. For instance it does not show up as a
drive in My Computer. Any thoughts why this is happening?

Thanks

 

see if you can find the missing drive in the Control Panel, Administrative
Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. Hopefully is will be showing
there and you just need to partition it and format...

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Did you install the drivers during install?

 

he says the controller shows in device manager as a SCSI controller so I'd
guess he did... assuming that no "X" or "!" are showing with it...

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