IDE and SATA hard drives

[Juno]

At first, I'm using 80gb ide hdd as my first drive and 80gb sata hdd as my second drive. But the problem is, I've been trying to get my sata hdd recognized in bios but it won't happen.

Here are the specs:
First drive: WD Special Edition 80gb ide
Second drive: WD Caviar 80gb sata
Motherboard: ASUS A7V600 (Already flashed bios recently)

 

[airfoil]

Enable SATA in the BIOS yet?

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: airfoil
Enable SATA in the BIOS yet?

Done that before.

 

[Juno]

Things I've done but is there anything I miss?

I have SATA enabled in BIOS.
I put the jumper on 3 and 4 pins.
Of course, SATA 15-pin to 4-pin cable power adapter and SATA 150 cable both are connected.

My ASUS A7V600 motherboard has two onboard SATA.

 

[Marsumane]

Does it hang in bios when u use autodetect? Or does it immediately just say that theres nothing there? Also, whats your psu?

 

[Sonic587]

Have you installed SATA drivers for your motherboard yet?

 

[NesuD]

Typically with SATA/RAID controllers you have to enter the RAID setup screen and create in your case a single drive array before the system will actually pickup the drive. It is covered in section 3.4 of the latest manual on their website "During POST press tab to enter via raid configuration utility" go to create array and create a RAID0 array using just the single drive. After you have done that make sure in device manager that the SATA controller has the driver loaded for it. I would expect since this is an integrated feature in the Via Southbridge that the drivers would be part of their vias 4 in 1 driver set so they should be there already. The drive should be showing up in My computer by now all it needs is formatting.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: NesuD
Typically with SATA/RAID controllers you have to enter the RAID setup screen and create in your case a single drive array before the system will actually pickup the drive. It is covered in section 3.4 of the latest manual on their website "During POST press tab to enter via raid configuration utility" go to create array and create a RAID0 array using just the single drive. After you have done that make sure in device manager that the SATA controller has the driver loaded for it. I would expect since this is an integrated feature in the Via Southbridge that the drivers would be part of their vias 4 in 1 driver set so they should be there already. The drive should be showing up in My computer by now all it needs is formatting.

I did everything but the problem is, when I press tab in boot-up. It shows the raid configuration screen and it still won't let me to create an array. The lists are disabled and I don't know why.

I flashed bios, updated via raid controller and via 4 in 1 drivers and everything.

 

[Juno]

Ok, I got the sata hard drive installed.

I used computer management to create a volume.