About 18 months ago I wanted to add external SATA ports to one of my
PCs. Newegg had a sale plus rebate deal on a Rosewill RC-209 that was
too good to ignore... I think after I got the rebate it cost me 15
bucks. It is a 4 port RAID controller that can be set up with or
without external ports in just about any configuration you want. This
is done by hardware jumpers. They now have a RC-209 EX that is,
according to their site, identical with the one difference of < hot
swapable> external ports.
18 months ago I tried to install it on a straightforward and 100
percent compatible / reliable Intel 865PERL motherboard. I couldn't
get it installed because windows wouldn't recognize it and match it
to the driver. I tried moving it to other PCI slots with or without
an internal, or external drive configuration. Nothing worked. I wrote
tech support who never bothered to reply and eventually I decided
that it had to be something tweaked in XP2, so I pulled the card, and
forgot about it.
Now I am redoing that computer for another job, and I have it in
another case, PS, video card, everything is new to the board
including a new install of XP2 and, like usual it runs great. So I
thought I would try the Rosewill again. Same problem. It is acting
like a device that I am trying to install the wrong driver to, like I
have the b version of the hardware and I am trying to install the d
version drivers. I can force a install but I end up with a yellow triangle.
The driver is 11 months old and there is a wide range of drivers
posted for everything from 98 through Vista 64. This time, after the
correct driver failed, I tried installing the driver for the new
RC-209 EX version, then I tried installing the driver for the onboard
chip = SI 3114 , and while windows let me force the install, it also
yellow triangeled.
Any ideas?
BTW Rosewill sucks, Cheap crappy hardware.
