SATA Hds using Intel and SI controllers?

Has anybody used 3 or 4 SATA HDs utulizing both Intel and SI contollers.
I'm using both channels from Intel and can't get another SATA HD to work
using SI controller. I'm also using 2 IDE Hds and an IDE burner. The SI
controller is enabled in BIOS. The SI controller is listed in Device
Manager.

Help needed, please.
Thanks

 

one thing I was made aware of while working with another poster is that he
discovered that is the USB support in the bios is set to BIOS instead of OS,
then the SI controller was being "stepped on" by the bios support for USB.
In his case, he did not see the SI BIOS during the boot screens near the
very end of the boot screens before the OS loads.

so, if you don't see the SI bios, assuming you have the raid ROM enabled in
the bios setup, then that would be something to look at. other than that,
you need to have the SI drivers loaded in the OS and everything should work.

I have run my system with drives on both controllers and I have tested with
the SI raid ROM enabled and disabled. if you do not intend to run a raid,
you can still have the raid ROM enabled to provide DOS level support and
such.

check the setting of the USB support for both KB and mouse and set it to OS
level support to see if that helps. the one very important thing to
remember about doing that is that if you have a USB KB, then you will not be
able to enter the bios setup screens or hit other keystrokes down at the
bios level, such as the Control I to enter the Intel raid ROM screens, as
the KB will no longer have USB support until the OS boots. the workaround
for this is to use a PS/2 KB.

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I see SI raid ROM at boot-up. Drivers are installed for XP Pro. I get
nothing. My KB is PS/2, so I'll try changing to OS.

Thanks,
Paul

 

I got some older 8gb maxtor drives that don't work with these never raid
thingys. Don't show on the screen when I boot...

My newer wd hds always show, as long as the jumper on the hd is set to the
correct setting...

my 2 cents

 

are you using the Serillel-2 adapters to mount the drives to the SATA
channels or are you running the drives on the regular IDE channels (PATA)?

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The 2 IDE HDs and IDE CD-RW are connected to IDE 1/2. I have WD Raptor SATA
on SATA 1 and Hitachi 250GB SATA on SATA 2. Want to hook up Hitachi 160GB
SATA on SATA 3. Hitachi 160GB is not detected.

Onboard PCI Device menu: SATA Controller = Enabled. I see SI controller
BIOS at boot-up. SI drivers are installed for WinXP Pro w/SP1a. SI
controller in device manager. Working properly.
Checked cables. Used cable working for other SATA HD, still no go.

I'm getting ready to pull all drives not necessary and try it.

BTW, using BIOS 2.0.

 

and you tried the USB support being set to OS in the bios? if the SI bios
screen does not show the drive during the boot screens, then I'm sure that
the OS won't show it either.

one thing you can try is to disable the SI bios ROM as that controller will
still support a SATA drive on the channels without the bios. it just won't
do raid functions without the bios. just as something to change the mix,
try disabling the SI Raid ROM and see what happens with that. I run a SATA
drive on my SI controller without the bios being enabled just to save boot
time (one less bios screen to wait on) since I don't use it for raid and if
I ever need access to the drive from a DOS boot, I just jump into the
mainboard bios screens and enable the SI raid ROM and reboot.

other than that, something is inhibiting that drive from being detected
(duh) and I don't have a good idea what it could be.

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try to get that IDE2sAta dongle & hook up the last disk to remaining
Ide channel ...

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I have the drive running now. Would you guess it, one of the prongs from
the 4-pin power connector was loose.

Thanks for the help.

 

seen that more times than I can count... glad you have it sorted...

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