oh computer guys, mine is pissing me off

[winfred]

it spools and when connected to the raid controler (the first port i plugged into) i can look at the drive and play with raid info if i ctrl-F pre boot which is the only place the drive is visible, but since i switched to the (supposedly) correct port that's gone, from the crap i've read about it's probably going to be a bios/driver problem, common?! problem with this board maybe it wants me to buy 3 more drives and build a array, i need that like i need a sore cock

Winfred - hold the drive in your hand with the power and SATA connected - do you feel/hear the drive spool up? I've received DOA drives before.

[Alpinewhite]

Hi Winfred,

I think the raid controller bios & driver are hiding the drive. You can disable the raid configuration in the main BIOS. Go to the Main bios (press F2 or DEL) and there should be a place where you can configure the IDE controllers

SATA controller has three modes of operation

1. IDE mode - no AHCI, no RAID
2. SATA mode (sometimes called AHCI mode) - AHCI enabled, no RAID
3. RAID mode - AHCI enabled, RAID enabled

I think yours is in (3) Raid mode. Ideal place is to put it in (2) SATA mode / AHCI mode. Try (1) only if (2) does not work

Let me know what happens.

Hope this helps
Arun

[ryan roopnarine]

damn, the adaptors are cheap, though

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...-20330&cpc=SCH

11.99+8~$20 if you get really stuck.

then again, i've never had a computer hardware problem that i haven't been able to fix with drivers (unless the thing is physically broken). any adaptor you buy isn't going to have the greatest driver support in the world (unless you buy something expensive), so you might just end up buying something that won't even work on your computer.

[winfred]

ill check it out when i get home tonight, i am sure it's a solvable problem as others have gotten them to work, like i said why is my **** always retarded

[Jon K]

like i said why is my **** always retarded

it's probably your diet

[winfred]

meat cheese and taters with the occaisional green thing

it's probably your diet

[Alpinewhite]

ill check it out when i get home tonight, i am sure it's a solvable problem as others have gotten them to work, like i said why is my **** always retarded

Any luck after changing the BIOS settings?
Arun

[winfred]

nope dicked with it several hours last night and the drive is still invisable, still researching

Any luck after changing the BIOS settings?
Arun