Can't access storage drives

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Hey guys,

I am using a Rosewill RC-217 4 port SATA card with my 4 WD Blue 500GB drives. Everything was working fine, using them as single disks without RAID. I wanted to try the RAID5 out, so I installed there windows utility and played around a bit...made/deleted a RAID5.

After doing so, I can't get the drives to show up in Windows at all. I've loaded an Ubuntu Live CD and can access the drives in the disk manager/gparted. I was able to wipe all 4 drives out, created a new partition table and formatted them all as NTFS...they still won't show up in Windows 7.

If I plug any of the drives directly into my motherboards SATA ports, they will show up and work....All 4 drives show up under Device Info in the driver properties as well.

When I try open the SATARAID5 manager utility thing they have, it says that no controller is detected by the system, however I just re-installed/rebooted the drivers!

Ideas? :(
 
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start>run> type cmd
type diskpart

type list disk
find the disk you want in the list and
type select disk x
where x is the number of the disk
type list partition
you said you already created a new partition on the disks, so you should see one primary partition
type assign
the drive now shows up in My Computer
you may need to format it again
 
optionally, right click on My Computer, go to Manage. Select Disk Management. Look at the drives/volumes and you should see the drives/volumes listed there. Right click on the volume and go to "Change Drive Letter" and assign a drive letter to the array.
 
the end result is the same for either. most people probably prefer to use disk manager.

the only reason i prefer command prompt is that i can sit down in front of any computer and the commands are the same every time, dont even have to think about what OS it is. no "right click this" and "go to that menu". if the OP didnt specify an OS, i dont have to ask.

the GUI disk manager has changed locations to get to it and commands to use it between xp, vista and 7.
 
so you're not even seeing the disks at all in diskpart or disk management? are they marked offline or just gone?

update: it's a PCI card... do you have it in a bus mastering enabled slot? your best bet would be the PCI slot CLOSEST to your CPU socket.
 
sabregen said:
so you're not even seeing the disks at all in diskpart or disk management? are they marked offline or just gone?

update: it's a PCI card... do you have it in a bus mastering enabled slot? your best bet would be the PCI slot CLOSEST to your CPU socket.
Click to expand...

I have 2 avail PCI slots, tried both. They do NOT show up in disk management or diskpart. Theres nothing, no unallocated space, no drives, just gone...
 
wowza. im starting to wonder if putting it in raid mode is conflicting somehow with your onboard controller. is this on the system in your sig or a different one? does the rosewill card show up in your device manager? if so, what does the device properties page say? does it say it cannot start and give an error code? checked system event log?
 
System in the sig.

I am using my onboard contoller with my SSDs, if I configure SATA as IDE/ACHI instead of RAID....all 4 drives will show up and I can access the bios raid utility deal, obviously I can't boot into Windows then.

Card shows up in Device Manager just fine, drivers are there AND it even shows whats connected on each port and shows each drive.
 
okay... so if you right click on the card in device manager and go to "Scan for Hardware Changes" does that change anything?
 
Oi! alright ehh lemme look @ the card specs in a little more detail and see if I can come up with anything.
 
sil3124 controller... seen those a bunch. I'm really at a loss here, though, even after reading the entire manual.
 
Thanks guys....I'm at a loss too!

Recap:
Drives worked fine as single disks after driver installation
Installed SATARAID5 Manager - Made RAID5 array, software was uber shitty, deleted the array before it built and uninstalled.
Rebooted - Drives gone
Booted Ubuntu ISO - Drives showed up as part of a RAID array in disk manager, deleted it all, created new partition tables and formatted as NTFS.
Plugged 4 drives into onboard SATA on mobo, all showed up and worked
Connected back to my RC-217 - Not there ANYWHERE
 
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