what the hells going on here

[fkdup74]

did it come with a driver disk?
probably a floppy diskette?

[Adster]

keyboard no not USB and no F lock

came with a driver disk CD

but that don't matter coz i cant even get it too go in the bios utility grrrrr

I didn't try moving it too a different slot as the motherboard seems to recagise it even windows does!!

but it just asy at the beginning press f4 or control c to get ot the utility Bios it doesn't do it it does shit all. then it just says drive not found

so I'm guessing i can't get to the raid bios coz it wont recagnise my HD

[fkdup74]

keyboard no not USB and no F lock

umm...i think VB was takin the piss with the f-lock business

other than that....ermm.....uhmm.....read teh manual?

[Adster]

yeah the Manuel says go to bios ;p

I think i know what the problem is

OK ATM theres only 1 plug into the HD that pug is the digital interface which plugs into the PCI right?? now here we go the power slut has nothing in it!!!!!

which means im going to have to fucking by a IDE power supply converter im sure it it czo the ones on this don't fit into the fucking HD!!!!!!! I was under the impression card controlled the power.

this is Turing out to be a $400 very expensive fucking HD

[fkdup74]

I was under the impression card controlled the power.

nah SATA drives have power connectors just like IDEs
my PSU has a SATA power plug, why not yours?
but anyway, you should be able to get an adapter for under 5 bucks (USD)
dont know what that translates to in AUD, but it cant be much

-edit-
i see em at compusa for 9.99 USD
so not 5 bucks, but still cheap

[Adster]

what i meant was i thought the fard controlled the digital interface and what i had plugged in was just the power!! but its the bigger chord thats the power not like IDE so its running without power ffs that will also mean goodbye to the 40 gig coz ill haev to use this power chord

so I take it i unplug one fo the power chords im useing for IDE atm

shove it in the pwoer converter then plug the power convert into the HD???

show me a pic of wtf it looks liek the thing i have to get

[fkdup74]

newegg has em for 2-3 bucks, go figure, fuckin expensive ass california
but if you dont have an open power plug....
it may be time to look into another PSU

-edit-
or...if you have the power but just not enough plugs...
you can get one of these:

to split the 4 pin, then plug the 4 pin to 15 pin adapter to one of em and to the SATA,
then the other to the IDE

-edit again-
and while youre at it....
maybe some zip ties or twist ties,
because its gonna get messy

[Adster]

cool thanks

[Adster]

OK i seemed to have controlled Thant problem bios works now and drive is recognized now...... how do I set this Sata to a slave?? the IDE is master coz its got windows on it but obviously windows won't recagise my sata because its not slave its master

any suggestions?

edit dont worry got XP to get it