Hard Drive not recognized - is this normal?

[Don Wong]

When Mobo and drives are new and windows has yet to be installed is it normal that hard drives are not recognized in the BIOS, buy are recognized in the NF4 RAID setup utility and can be low level formatted? Thanks

AMD Venice 3200 LBBLE 0516EPGW
DFI Lanparty NFI Ultra SLI
TwinMos 400/512 x 2
ATI X800XL
2 x 160MB Seagate NCQ Raid O
1 x 80MB Seagate NCQ
NEC 3.5
NEC DVD/CD RW
Lian LI 75B
3 x Panflo 80MM H1As
Thermalright XP-90C
1 x Panflo 92 MM H1A
1 x Panflo 120MM M1A
1 80MM to 120MM adapter
Artic 5 Silver
Sunbeam Reobus
PCP&C 510 SLI

 

[ashmedai]

Don't you already have a thread about this?

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Sounds like you've plugged them into some RAID ports on the board, which would mean that instead of showing up in BIOS like IDE drives, it will show up under the RAID's own BIOS. Also, note that you probably will need to have the driver disk available to use for installing windows, as you'll have to hit F6 when prompted so the drives show up.

 

[rodsfree]

Sounds like you've plugged them into some RAID ports on the board, which would mean that instead of showing up in BIOS like IDE drives, it will show up under the RAID's own BIOS. Also, note that you probably will need to have the driver disk available to use for installing windows, as you'll have to hit F6 when prompted so the drives show up.

QTF

Most newer motherboards have 2 different RAID controllers.
The first one is part of the BIOS and is called "on-chip" It's part of the Intel/VIA/Nvidia chipset.
The second one is an intergrated aftermarket controller chip, it's called "on-board". It's going to be Promise/Highpoint/SiliconImage/ etc.

It has to be set up completely differently from the "on-chip" controller.
Find/Download the manual for your board and read it very carefully. It'll identify which SATA ports go to which controller.

Good Luck!