SATA Problems for a NOOB!

[Sammy5000]

Hey Guys...

I am building a new rig for a friend, and he wants to use a Samsung SP8012C SATA Hard Drive. The mobo is an Aopen AK-86L.

Now, I will be honest with you, I have never setup a SATA before. And before I forget, it is not going to be used in a RAID array, just a single SATA HDD. He also has a DVD Rom that he wants to put on the IDE Channel. The OS he wants on is Windows XP Pro.

When I installed all the hardware and got into the Bios, I did not see the SATA drive. I just saw the DVD Rom as Primary Master IDE. Now, I thought at this point I screwed up, and shoudl have put the DVD-Rom on the Secondary IDE Channel. So I re-wire the cable, and got back into Bios, and still no SATA? I then go through the process of claiming ignorance and pretend to believe this never happenned so I go about trying to install XP from the DVD. Everything looks right up until I get to the point where it tells me XP cannot find a HDD.

Bottomline, please help the SATA-noob here. What is going on and how can I get this thing up and running?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Does the chipset on the motherboard have SATA in it, or is it using a seperate controller? I'm thinking most of these things use secondary controllers so you should be prompted to go into another bios after the motherboard's bios to setup sata/raid.

Also, WinXP installer should ask you to hit F6 if you want to install drivers. You'll probably need to do that.

 

[Sammy5000]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Does the chipset on the motherboard have SATA in it, or is it using a seperate controller? I'm thinking most of these things use secondary controllers so you should be prompted to go into another bios after the motherboard's bios to setup sata/raid.

Also, WinXP installer should ask you to hit F6 if you want to install drivers. You'll probably need to do that.

Thanks n0cmonkey... Chipset does have SATA enabled. And yes, WinXP installer does prompt for F6, so I am assuming that is where I can load the SATA drivers from the floppy diskette that came with the mobo? Again, I have never had to this before, so that is why all the questions are coming out...

 

[imported_Bunter]

You have to have the SATA drivers on a floppy and hit F6 when prompted. If all is well, it will display the name of the driver and allow you to load it. Should be no hassles from then on.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Sammy5000

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Does the chipset on the motherboard have SATA in it, or is it using a seperate controller? I'm thinking most of these things use secondary controllers so you should be prompted to go into another bios after the motherboard's bios to setup sata/raid.

Also, WinXP installer should ask you to hit F6 if you want to install drivers. You'll probably need to do that.

Thanks n0cmonkey... Chipset does have SATA enabled. And yes, WinXP installer does prompt for F6, so I am assuming that is where I can load the SATA drivers from the floppy diskette that came with the mobo? Again, I have never had to this before, so that is why all the questions are coming out...

I'd check the manual to see what it says about SATA. But yes, you'll have to hit F6 and load the drivers from the floppy.

 

[GfW]

Sammy ... I had the same problem when I built my new rig last month.
Use the S-ATA drivers from the motherboard. Hit the F6 when you start installing the OS and then you will be asked to provide the diskette in A:.

You said you also have S-ATA enabled in the BIOS. I don't know what BIOS you have onboard but on the Gigabyte motherboard I have, there was also another setting that had to be enabled.

There is a thread on my problem somewhere in this folder ... search for my name and you'll find the info you need.

 

[Askalon]

I helped another guy set his up. Make sure you have the latest bios, sata enabled (and raid arry in his case). F6 and Bob's your uncle (or if you don't get it, your good to go).

 

[Quiex]

when i was building mine i had to go to CMOS area and selected Floppy as 1st boot, CD as 2nd boot, and S-AtA as 3rd boot. to get my computer to run properly.

 

[imported_Salvatore]

Didn't want to start yet another S-ATA topic, so I figured I would use this one. The question I have is where do you get your S-ATA drivers if your motherboard manufacturer didn't give you them on a diskette already? Specifically, the MSI K8N Neo-FSR.

 

[mechBgon]

Your motherboard's CD-ROM may include a diskette-making utility. Try putting it into a Windows system and when it Autoplays, does the menu include such an option?

 

[ollax]

after pressing f6 i'm having probs with the drivers from the floppy! xp says that the driver causes problems with sp1, and thes drivers are the latest from asus!

K8n-e deluxe
Deskstar 80 gig sata
barracuda 200gig sata

 

[bamacre]

Can this all be done without a floppy drive?

I have a 74GB Raptor coming, and I don't have a floppy drive.

 

[fishmonger12]

i installed my 37.4 Gig raptor without a floppy drive. I never had such a prompt... i just stuck the winxp disk in the drive, installed the os, everything ran smooth. shrug.

 

[bamacre]

I forgot to mention, I am running Windows 2000, if it makes a difference.

 

[kbane]

Bamacre,

Did you ever get a response to your question? I'd like to try and load the drivers without a floppy as well.

 

[oldman420]

To answer your question yes you can slipstream windows with sata drivers.
It is a bit tricky, but if you are careful it works perfect
Heres a link to all the info you need.
http://www.google.com/search?h...amp;btnG=Google+Search

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: kbane
Bamacre,

Did you ever get a response to your question? I'd like to try and load the drivers without a floppy as well.

For my specific motherboard, yes.

I have an Asus P4P800, and didn't need to install the drivers.