Disk Manager Can't See New Drive

Beckinsale

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Nov 11, 2003
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I've just got a Seagate 160GB SATA disk with NCQ (ST3160827AS). After using Seagate's DiscWizard to install the drivers, the Device Manager was able to see a "SCSI Disk Device". However, Windows' Disk Manager does not see a new drive.

I then tried to use DiscWizard again to create new partitions, but it reports that my drive has 0MB space. Woohoo.

So what should I do? Does NCQ mean the drive won't work at all if the controller doesn't support it? That doesn't sound right at all.

Windows XP SP2
Asus A7V-8X w/ Promise FastTrack SATA Controller

EDIT: Oh, Device Manager also reports the drive as being unreadable. I'm missing something...
 

Navid

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Do you only have the Promise controller option on that motherboard?
 

Beckinsale

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Hmm, I figured out that I can create a RAID array from the BIOS, and it became 0+1. But now System Properties reports error loading drivers for the drive. What to do now? :(

Oh, I've got the drivers from Asus, the latest (1.0.0.8, 2002-Aug), for the controller.

Edit: Ah, after connecting the disk to Sec_SATA instead, and creating a strip drive on a single drive, Windows likes it. Now formatting :cool: