SATA drives and K8V SE deluxe trouble

[CozmicRay]

Trouble ewith SATA HDs on K8V SE Deluxe mobo

Two Hitachi 80G Deskstar SATA IDE drives

Without drives pluged in
boots from PATA IDE Maxtor 40 to Win 98 OK

Plug in SATA drives to any of the mobo SATA sockets
doesnot boot after Win splash screen black blinking cursor

Tried numerous configs and bios settings with No joy
sometimes msg unable to read from AUX

1 HD in any of SATA or SATA RAID sockets
or 2 Drives in socket

Hoped to set up SATA RAID mirror ?

Which is Promise RAID Fasttrack RAID?

K8V SE Deluxe
2x512 DDR 400 3200 mem
40G Maxtor C:
120G Maxtor D:
DVD/CDROM
CD burner
Matrox G400 AGP
Tekram SCSI
TV@nywhere TV card

no difference if I pull any/all cards

Any help out there

Thanks
CozmicRay

 

[Fern]

Dunno, but here's a bump for you. (you do have the sata drivers installed, right?)

 

[CozmicRay]

All the drivers from the ASUS CD installed
both Promise and Fasttrak install programs

Done two ways via CD
and
via update drivers out of System Manager - device manager

when the SATA drive are plugged in -- Windows doesn't even get to look
for new hardware and ask for drivers

without SATAs plugged in -- it looks like they are there and the SATA RAID is on task bar


I can Hit the key it asks for when the SATA drives appear in boot,
create a mirror array using the tow drives, exit out and continue to boot
only to get to blank screen and blinking cursor?


Tnx
Cozmic:frown:

 

[justinian1978]

I am using the same board and hard drive as you. It took me a bit to get my SATA working too on the K8V SE Deluxe. The bottom SATA ports on the board (the ones that are side-by-side) are the Promise ports. The 2 above those (the ones that are stacked vertically) are the VIA ports. I went with Promise, it just seemed easier, and I hate VIA (I got the board cheap, so I'm dealing with it for the moment). Make sure you've made boot floppies with your Promise 378 RAID/SATA drivers (it took 2 floppies for me; I didn't have the mobo CD) and boot up.

When the POSTing gets to the Promise screen, you'll see a prompt to CTRL-F to set up an array, so do that. It's really easy to set up an array, just follow the instructions, and then exit out of that. Reboot and go into BIOS and make sure that SATA is enabled and your boot order should be [1] CD/DVD drive [2] SATA HD (it should now be recognized by BIOS as a TX ARRAY or something similar) [3] Floppy. Put in Windows2k/XP and boot from CD, and when it asks for the F6 to select SCSI/RAID drivers, do that. Later in the install it will ask for the floppy, so have it ready. After that, it's a snap, should work perfectly.