Do you need to have an IDE hard drive?

[Accipiter22]

I recently ordered an Asus A8V Deluxe mobo for the new computer i'm building. I was reading through the manual when I noticed one of the error messages you may get when first trying to post is 'no IDE hard disk detected'....and teh soluteion is to make sure you have connected an IDE Hard disk....so I was just wondering, since I only ordered an SATA hard drive, do I need to go back and get an IDE one as well?

I know with this mobo you can run SATA as an IDE but I'd really prefer to just have the SATA and run it as an SATA...

thanks for any help

 

[ribbon13]

No, you don't need an IDE. On all my computers with SATA, all the drives run as sata, even the burners.

 

[Accipiter22]

awesome, thanks for the quick reply

 

[Stangs55]

Nope. I've got 2 SATA's on my A8V in RAID 0 via the Promise controller. No worries mate.

If you aren't running RAID, and it (for some reason) doesn't recognize your HD....just go into the BIOS and change the setting to turn off RAID--b/c I think it's on by default.

 

[Accipiter22]

i can still use Raid even if i'm only using a single HD correct?

 

[Stangs55]

RAID requires 2 identical HD's

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Stangs55
RAID requires 2 identical HD's

No RAID requires 2 or more HD's

 

[Accipiter22]

alright, so I turn off Raid in the BIOS menu then, thanks

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: LED

Originally posted by: Stangs55
RAID requires 2 identical HD's

No RAID requires 2 or more HD's

picky picky picky

So let's get technical...

No, that's wrong too b/c:

RAID 3, 4, 5 require 3 minimum
RAID 10, 0+1 requires 4 minimum
RAID 50 requires 5 minimum

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Originally posted by: LED

Originally posted by: Stangs55
RAID requires 2 identical HD's

No RAID requires 2 or more HD's

picky picky picky

So let's get technical...

No, that's wrong too b/c:

RAID 3, 4, 5 require 3 minimum
RAID 10, 0+1 requires 4 minimum
RAID 50 requires 5 minimum

LOL...now how is my statement of RAID requires 2 or more HD's wrong?

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: LED
LOL...now how is my statement of RAID requires 2 or more HD's wrong?

b/c several versions of raid don't work with 2.

just a lil' friendly banter too pass the time @ work

 

[LED]

It still would be more then 2 HD's ... and the reason I posted that was for peeps who would think that they have to go out and another identical HD perform RAID while having a spare @ home...albiet RAID would theoretically run X2 of the slowest plus the smallest drive.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: LED
It still would be more then 2 HD's ... and the reason I posted that was for peeps who would think that they have to go out and another identical HD perform RAID while having a spare @ home...albiet RAID would theoretically run X2 of the slowest plus the smallest drive.

lol....uh...I guess you're right

<- loser

 

[w00t]

come on guys LED was right stang u were wrong his statement "No RAID requires 2 or more HD's" is correct

 

[arsbanned]

Yeah I agree. Friendly banter it wasn't. 2 or more is correct.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
Yeah I agree. Friendly banter it wasn't. 2 or more is correct.

thx for the input

 

[Accipiter22]

alright, so I've got everything installed, except i get the 'no ide drive detected' error when i first boot up, for those who only use SATA did you have the same problem?

 

[Steven the Leech]

Did you set the boot device order correctly in bios? Does it boot into windows? Did you install sata drivers when installing the OS?

 

[Accipiter22]

nope, windows isn't installed yet, I have the XP cd in my cd drive (it detects a cd drive), and it'll boot off my A: drive too....just wont' detect the HD.....boot order maybe? I know Asus defaults to having RAID enabled, maybe i should turn that off, since i only have one HD

 

[Theguynextdoor]

Try going into bios and HARDDRIVE boot sequence, which is different from the regular boot sequence, and put the SATA drive before the regular IDE, or turn just turn off IDE.

 

[Theguynextdoor]

Well if you haven't installed windows yet, change the regular boot sequence to CD/DVD and boot into your XP CD. Insall your SATA drivers!!!!

 

[Accipiter22]

i have no idea how to turn off the IDE, there doens't seem to be an option for that...unless you mean 'disabled'?

 

[Accipiter22]

alas, i bought the hard drive bare-bones off of newegg....i'm searching hitachi's site now for the sATA drivers...this is truly infuriating......i keep getting the same error over and over about the bios not being installed....when it is.

 

[LED]

There will be 2 IDE ports...
Disable the one that the Optical drive is not on.
Set the boot Drive as the Optical
When XP starts to Run press the F6 Button
Install the SATA drives Via Floppy

Should be good to go/continue...

 

[Accipiter22]

i can't disable IDE ports, it won't let me from the bios...i get the same message when I try to boot from the Optical drive, that there's no bios installed, to install bios, and reboot....I'm just going to return this whole thing to newegg, something's got to be defective, and I don't have the patience to see what it is