SATA harddisk not detected on asus K8V

[Neozero]

Hello
I just bought DiamondMax Plus9 160GB and installed it on my exisiting system (Athlon3000+ , 1GB ram, asus K8V, 20 GB PATA HD).I plugged SATA connector to SATA 1. While booting, i entered BIOS setup and found that my SATA drive not detected.
then i repluged the SATA connector to PRI_SATA instead.whille booting , i got "no array define" prompt ,then I pressed ctrl-F to enter Fastbuild utility.i chose auto setup and the array was defined as 1+0 stripe mode.but even this setup was done, my sata hd was not detected as IDE.
can anyone help?

 

[kumo]

you have just a single SATA hard drive?

 

[eydolic]

It shouldn't be detected as IDE. 1+0 is not going to work for a single drive. Manually set it up in the FastBuild utility as a single drive.

 

[Neozero]

I reread MOBO manual and came to this fact.
Fast build utility is used for setting up PROMISE RAID.It has nothing to do with detecting hd in BIOS or configuring HD as single drive. I repluged SATA cable to other SATA connector (Sec_SATA, SATA_1, SATA_2).nothing happened.but SATA cable should be fine to plug with any connector, right?
I ended up plugging it to SATA_1 .

While POST,after memory count end,my PATA HD was detected as primary master. my 2 cd drives were detected as secondary IDE.SATA HD was not detected through this process (and in BIOS).however, it was recognized by RAID utility (such as Fast build or VIA tech raid BIOS) .

I made sure that ONchip SATA boot rom enabled in BIOS.

to kumo:yes i only have single SATA HD.and i have no intetion to use RAID.

What should i do? Do you want me to clarify any information?

 

[helpmeout]

Neozero, these SATA drive connections questions seem to be the "flavor of the day". I'm having similar problems with an Abit IS7 mobo and Seagate Barracuda SATA drive. Been searching and posting all over, and found hundreds of questions in forums, but no one has posted back to say they fixed it. I went to the Abit mobo forum , and was told by the moderator not to bother trying to get SATA recognized. My drive is on SATA 1 (it's my C: drive). Windows boots fine from it, but it shows in device manager as being on my secondary IDE channel, which in actuality is empty. I'll see what happens tomorrow when I install a DVD-ROM to that secondary IDE. My primary IDE has a burner connected already. I'm sure there are a lot of people who know SATA, but I haven't found a post yet with good, clear instructions that work. If I have a problem installing the DVD-ROM, I'm just going to stick a Promise controller in, and run the opticals from it until I see a solution somewhere. I know this doesn't help you, but sometimes it helps me when I rant. Thanks for the opportunity, LOL.

 

[Neozero]

BUMP

 

[Uncle Bob]

I've got an ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe running a SATA drive (a Maxtor Diamond Max9 160GB) along with a mixture of PATA devices
On my system the SATA drive is attached to the Promise controller as a single device and works fine. You do need to go into setup and change the option Advanced->Onboard Devices Configuration -> Promise Controller->Operating Mode = IDE

You can tell fairly easily if the SATA drive is recognised by the bios, press F8 during POST and the boot options menu will appear showing all possible boot devices

The only issue I had when setting this up was that I got all sorts of weird problems if I had the DVD-RW & CD drives attached to the Primary IDE channel. Once I moved them onto the Secondary channel everything ran sweet.

Hope this helps

 

[Neozero]

dear uncle BOB
i tried to access to set the promise controller setting in BIOS.however,I can only enable/disable it.There is no option to set it as ide mode...
Thank you for reply anyway.i think i gonna bring HD to test at the shop.if it work fine,i might sell it and buy IDE HD instead..

 

[Neozero]

double post

 

[Neozero]

I successfully made my HDD worked on win2000!.
After doing some research, I found that VIA SATA chipset (vt8237) will only detect my SATA hd as PCI adapter .So my HD won`t be detect as IDE on old K8V MOBO. The later version of this MOBO Bios (K8Vse, K8vSe-deluxe..) had the option to let it detect SATA HD as IDE.

In win2000, the disk was deteced in disk management (in administrative tool). and it can be formatted and be used as my new D: !!! oh how stupid i have been.

Hope this might help other one who have the asus K8V like mine.