SATA problem

[DonaldD]

I just put together a PC with a P4C800-E MB. I have 2 Seagate SATA drives installed with the intent of setting up a RAID 0 configuration. The drives are connected to the SATA RAID1 and SATA RAID2 connectors. According to the manual I should see a prompt for CTRL-I during POST to enter the INTEL RAID setup program. I never see this prompt. I do have the Serial ATA BOOTROM Enabled in the BIOS. I have tried tapping CTRL-I during POST with no luck. Has anyone else had the problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Harvey]

I'm not much into Intel chipsets, so I'm just guessing, but from what I've seen in VIA and nVidia chipsets, you may have to enable SATA in the BIOS before the option will appear.

Hope that helps.

 

[AndyHui]

Sounds like you have it connected to the Promise ATA Controller instead of the Intel ICH5 hub. Please check your SATA connections.

 

[DonaldD]

You were correct. The MB User Guide was not real clear on which set of SATA connectors to use. I can now get the setup program to run and I set up the RAID Volume. However, Windows still does not find the hard drive(s). I am going to download a utilitiy from the Seagate website and give that a try. Thanks for the help. Any other tips would be welcome and appreciated.

OK, I ran the Seagate utility and setup and partitioned the RAID volume. Windows XP will still not find the hard drive(s). Any suggestions? Thanks.