SATA help needed

**SingaBoiy** · 10-15-2005, 07:50 AM

I just got my 2 250GB SATA hds.

I only got one cable so only one is hooked up atm. Both are connected to the psu though.

The bios doesnt recognize them on boot up. Either does windows. I installed all the drivers right. Just cant figure this out.

EDIT: My motherboard is a Foxconn 600A01-6LRS and the hds I got are these Maxtors.

**clocker** · 10-15-2005, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by SingaBoiy

The bios doesnt recognize them on boot up. Either does windows. I installed all the drivers right. Just cant figure this out.

You must have to enable sata in BIOS...look in "integrated peripherals" maybe.

**lynx** · 10-15-2005, 02:40 PM

You may have to go into raid configuration and configure them as JBOD.

There's an article about it here.

Edit: steps 4 & 5 of option 1 of that article appear to be the relevant areas.

**SingaBoiy** · 10-15-2005, 06:05 PM

SATA is enabled.

Cant create RAID when its not picking up the hd.

**clocker** · 10-15-2005, 09:59 PM

OK, so SATA is enabled.
Is "SATA mode" set to "IDE"?

I'm looking at page 49 of your user's manual.

**SingaBoiy** · 10-16-2005, 02:00 AM

Yep, tried setting to IDE, still doesnt detect it.

**clocker** · 10-16-2005, 02:34 AM

This is not good.
If you can't get BIOS to see the drive then Windows doesn't have a prayer.

Under your boot priority does "SCSI" appear?
Maybe your chipset considers the SATA drive as a SCSI device.

**SingaBoiy** · 10-16-2005, 06:19 AM

Dont think so... let me take a look though.

EDIT: Dont see SCSI anywhere. Only in device manager, but there is a SATA controller there as well.

**Virtualbody1234** · 10-16-2005, 01:51 PM

Where are you looking to see if the drive is detected?

Tell us for both Windows and the BIOS.

What happens if you check in: Start>Control Panel>Administative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management ?