How do I get Windows Setup to detect my 80GB WD SE Drive on SATA converter?

[bgeh]

tried setting up Windows but it doesn't work(says can't detect a HD), so what should i do?

 

[Adul]

Don't you need a drivers for the serial ATA installed?

 

[bgeh]

but i have no floppy
and i'm doing a clean windows install

 

[Grminalac]

I think you might need the drivers for the SATA. Just like a SCSI HD install you press F6 when windows promts for a 3rd party driver and insert your diskette.
Maybe find the drivers online.

EDIT: Guess you will have to burn them to cd or install a floppy drive.

 

[bgeh]

maybe i'll install it first the normal way, then install the drivers through the net and then connect it through SATA.
will that work?

 

[gsiener]

That should work, used to be the workaround for using highpoint raid controllers on mobos like the bp6.

 

[DARTH_MAUL]

Holy Cr#p I can not believe what mainboard manufacturers are getting away with still in this day and age of review awareness and visiblity. I just went through TWO mainboards, the Intel 7205 from ASUS and GIGABYTE. Both had the SILicon IMAGE 3112 SERIAL ATA RAID controller....Well now of course neither one of them bothers to include the driver disk to install under WindowsXP or Windows2000 . So naturally not having a floppy on my new Inspiron 8200 I am left with NO floppy drive on a working systme from which I can extract a floppy to serve said purpose of installing the driver at time of OS install. How do these companies expect some building a system to install the OS on the SATA RAID Drives? Why have no reviews even mentioned this, especially now that the WD RAPTOR 10K RPM SATA drives are out?

Ok so can anyone help? Here is what I have done:

Copied the following files onto the root of the floppy disk:

Si3112r.inf
Si3112r.mpd
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.VXD
TxtSetup.oem
readme.txt

I now get this error:

"File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 1742 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. "

Totally repeatable.

System config:
P4 3.06GB 533MHz
ASUS P4G8X Deluxe & GIGABYTE GA-8INXP
2GB Corsair DDR
2x WD RAPTOR 10k RPM SATA HD in RAID 0
Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO

WinXp

Please help...even if it is steps to slipstream WinXp with SP1 and this driver would be cool

Look forward to your reply,
DARTH

 

[sharkeeper]

Sounds like the OEMSETUP.INF has a bad pointer.

Check your paths and try again.

-DAK-

 

[DARTH_MAUL]

; This file installs the SiI 3112 SATARaid driver as part of text
; mode setup on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.


[Disks]
disk1 = "Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk",\Si3112r.sys,\

[Defaults]
SCSI = Si3112r

[SCSI] ; HwComponent section
Si3112r = "Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller"


[Files.SCSI.Si3112r]
driver = disk1,si3112r.sys, Si3112r
inf = disk1,Si3112r.inf
;;catalog = disk1, Si3112r.cat


[HardwareIds.SCSI.Si3112r]
id = "PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095", "Si3112r"

[Config.Si3112r]
value = ProblemDevices, "", REG_SZ, ""
value = ProblemDevices, "Maxtor 4D060H3 DAK05GK0", REG_SZ, "MaxMode = UDMA-5"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST320012AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST330013AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST340017AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST360015AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST380023AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"
value = ProblemDevices, "ST3120023AS", REG_SZ, "Mod15Write"

 

[sharkeeper]

Is that the correct driver???!

Ensure that the field contained in the text below matches the hardware listed in the POST table!

[HardwareIds.SCSI.Si3112r]
id = "PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095", "Si3112r"

-DAK-

 

[DARTH_MAUL]

This is straight from ASUS....Please help...sooooo frustrating 5 hours spent :-(

 

[sharkeeper]

Do you have a RAID array created with your two Raptors?

In the BIOS you have an option to use this controller as a RAID controller or plain SATA controller. You must use different drivers as the configuration is unique! You MUST either set the controller option in the BIOS to RAID and create either a RAID1 or RAID0 array and use the driver that you have currently OR...

If you want to have two independent disks, download the SATA driver (non RAID). This will allow Windows to find both disks as hard disk 0 and hard disk 1.

-DAK-