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Soltek Motherboard and SATA Hard Drives - Having Trouble Please Help

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jimmybock

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Bonjour,

Ok, I have a Soltek K8T800 939. It has 4 SATA slots. 2 of them are set up for a VIA-type RAID and the other two are for a different type of array. That's as well as I know how to explain the RAID portion. Before I started my upgrade I had a 74GB Raptor as my SATA boot drive and an 80 GB Caviar connected as IDE. In by BIOS I have no arrays set up and I use the Raptor as IDE even though I used the SATA cable to connect it (in one of the VIA Raid Slots).

Now, I just ordered two SATA WD 250GB hard drives. I tried connecting both with SATA cables, one into the second VIA slot and the other into the first slot of the other type of RAID.
So total, I had 4 hard drives connected. I finally got Windows XP to acknowledge the 250GB SATA from the VIA slot, but neither Windows nor BIOS recognizes the 250GB from the other RAID slot. I tried disconnecting the IDE 80GB, but that didn't help.

I'm a little over my head here in computer knowledge. My first instinct is to sell one of the SATA 250GBs and buy a 250GB IDE because I know that will work. Does anyone have a better idea of how to get the Raptor and the two 250s to work together under my setup? I planned to have the 80GB IDE go away and have 3 left.

Thanks!
 
Mobos that I have worked with generally have a SATA/RAID enable/disable switch in BIOS/CMOS settings. When enabled, you get a RAID/SATA BIOS pop up at boot which lets you configure your array. It then becomes part of the boot sequence. However, I am not familiar with Soltek or what BIOS they use. Have you installed the RAID drivers that come with the mobo?
 
I was hoping not to use an array in my setup if possible. I have installed the RAID drivers that came with the Soltek mobo, but if the BIOS isn't recognizing the hard drive there's nothing Windows can do, right?
 
The boot sequence I get with SATA RAID is:

1. POST
2. Boot starts - and Promise Fastrack (RAID BIOS) appears.
3. Then Windows starts loading.

The BIOS does not show the SATA drive because the drivers for that are in Windows, and the RAID COntroller BIOS has not yet loaded.
 
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