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Fair enough. Now I have a different problem. Both 200GB drives now have drive letters and appear HEALTHY BASIC in Disk Management, but I can't access either one. When I try, I the machine hangs for 30 seconds and then returns this error: THE DRIVE IS NOT ACCESSABLE. SEMAPHORE TIMEOUT PERIOD...

I just installed a WD 36GB Raptor SATA drive for OS and apps. I plugged a couple of WD 200GB drives into my Promise TX2 ATA controller and formatted them. Now I can't access either. The have drive letters. They show up healthy in Disk Management. When I go to MY COMPUTER and try to access...

I wanted it to be dynamic because the intention was to have it be one half of an array and I was under the impression that RAID disks should be dynamic.

bump, damn you.

Make sure your BIOS is up to date. Some boards were released last year with an SATA controller and controller BIOS, but the chipset BIOS was still lacking SATA boot features. I had this issue with my ASUS A7N8X-D. A simple BIOS flash gave me a couple new SATA menu options, included SCSI/SATA...

I had was a single 200GB drive with my OS, and media on it. What I want is a 36GB SATA for the OS, and two 200GB drives for media. So... 1. I ordered the 36GB and a second 200GB. 2. The 36GB came first. I installed XP to it and lived with it for a few days. 3. Then the new 200GB came. I...