Serial ATA on the Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 mobo?

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kcbass

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I'm running out of disk space and thinking of upgrading my smallest disk to SATA. The manual for my mobo only mentions SATA as a raid capability. Does anyone know for sure if I can plug one SATA drive to the mobo and use it as a normal drive?
 
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mrgoblin

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You are by no means required to use the raid function of sata on ure drives. I dont see why it should matter.
 
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kcbass

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I was just hesitant becuase the manual for the mobo is very detailed and specific and the only thing it mentioned for SATA was raid functionality. But I can use all my IDE's and SATA's simultaneously?
 
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ok...bought my sata drive and installed it. It won't show up under my computer, but it is listed in the device manager in the control panel. the raid software that came with my board also sees it. Not only does my computer not show it, but one of my ide hard drives has now disappeared as well.

Any suggestions?

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What Motherboard and OS are you using? If WinXP, rt click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Manage.
See if it shows up there and if you can assign a drive letter to it.
 
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kcbass

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it's a gigabyte ga-7vt600 1394. The disk management suggestion was dead on. I always forget about that tool. Only problem now is one of my old hard drives still isn't showing up... 
 
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kcbass

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I checked all the connections to the hard drive that isn't showing, and they're all fine. Any reason that a new sata drive would assert itself and remove an IDE hard drive from my list of devices? bump
 
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ok....161 views and only 16 replies....most of which are me bumping....I know people are looking at this thread. doesn't anyone have any advice, or at least something to say? help me out here 
 
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WOW, I think you've bumped enough times. Sheesh.

I have the GA-7VT600 1394. I use an 80GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2502 SATA drive and I have an additional 40GB IDE drive. I use Windows XP Professional and I have the SATA drive as the primary drive (the one that has the OS on it). If yours uses the IDE drive primarily, and the OS was already installed, then you probably forgot the drivers. If you DID install them properly, then just simply format the drive and choose a drive letter. You definitely won't see it before you do that.

I have absolutely no idea why, aside from operator error, the HD would just simply disappear on that motherboard. You really should make sure that you have the IDE cable plugged in properly and I don't mean making sure it is snug. Make sure that you don't have it flipped around, because that can always happen by mistake. The next choice would be to go into the BIOS and hit Ctrl+F1 for advanced options in the BIOS. Make sure everything checks out, such as that the proper IDE and SATA selections are chosen. The next step would be to load the failsafe defaults to make sure it couldn't be a BIOS choice.

If nothing works, then I would suggest you email or call Giga-byte's technical support for help. It really sounds like either a bad HD (the IDE) or you may have not done something you should have done and now can't fix it. Good luck, but I don't think you can really find much help here now. If you could, they'd have responded by now.
 
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kcbass

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I'm not sure what the problem was. It was only 20 GB hdd, so I removed it. I checked everything and rechecked. When i disconnected the SATA, all of my hdd's checked out fine, so i just transferred the data from the old one, then put it on the SATA. I had 360GB, and even with removing the 20, I now have 590GB, so I'm not too worried about it, but thanks for the info 
 
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