In my SATA case, the hard drive interfaces were on the motherboard, and the settings were in the motherboard BIOS setup. If in your case the hard drive interfaces are on an expansion card (AHA----), then the appropriate settings (for detecting the drive and establishing its interface) should be in the BIOS setup of the expansion card/host adapter.
Fred Holmes At 07:41 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Fred, At first, I would agree with you 100%. The only part that, doesn't >quite make it 100%, is that, I had this problem before I decided to set it up >as a RAID. > >I have repeatedly gone into the computer BIOS(not the Adaptec BIOS) to find >the option that would allow(or disallow) XP to see the SCSI HD's. > >I am stumped about, what option is controlling XP from seeing the SCSI HD's >because, I know the AHA-39320 is properly set. > >What that comes down to is, what is the option in the BIOS that will allow the >drives to be seen? > >The only IDE drive I have is, the CD-R/W that is the 'Secondary Master'. > >Christopher > >-------------- Original message -------------- >From: Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> OK -- RAID. I have a Dell with SATA drive controllers. In the motherboard >> BIOS >> setup the controller operation (collectively) can be set to "RAID = ON" or >> "RAID/ATA autodetect". In order to install WinXP on a single drive using a >> generic version of WinXP, one must put that setting to "RAID/ATA >> autodetect". >> >> With "RAID = ON", and a system installed, it will boot/work ok. Also with >> "RAID >> = ON", the Dell-supplied installer will install. (but the Dell-provided >> installer is XP-Home and I wanted XP-Pro) >> >> The factory default is "RAID = ON", and the "help" in the BIOS setup >> discourages >> one from changing it without good reason. Finding out this good reason was >> non-trivial. >> >> Perhaps some similar setting is the problem with your Adaptec controller? >> >> Fred Holmes >> >> At 12:17 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >I went to Google and, started doing a search with the keywords, 'Windows >> >wont >> install'. While I was perusing the results, I came upon one, that talked >> about >> cleaning the disc so, I took out my CD disc cleaner and, tried that. >> > >> >Then I booted the computer with the disc and, F6 for the external drivers >> >since >> it was no longer recognizing my AHA-39320 with extra help. I put in a floppy >> disk I had created by downloading the drivers. Well, It recognized the >> AHA-39320 but, it didn't recognize the drives connected to the AHA-39320. >> > >> >When I go through the SCSI utility software, it has no problem seeing the >> drives. I could even 'start' to setup a RAID if I wanted to, using RAID-0 >> or, >> RAID-1. >> > >> >Any ideas? >> > >> >Christopher >> ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
