I got a Hitachi 7K1000 in today and had a few problems getting my system to boot with it connected. It POSTs fine but when the start screen for my RAID controller (Silicon Images Sil3112A) comes up it detects the other SATA hard drive connected (WD2500JD) perfectly but it hangs on trying to detect the size of the Hitachi drive. It gets the name right, so it's connected OK, but it just hangs on detecting the size. In the end I've had to disconnect it and boot without the drive connected then hotplug it once the machine is up and running. This, obviously, is not an ideal solution so I was looking for any tips people could give me. I ran across an almost identical thread here, but the solution to that one seemed to be just hotplug the drive, which I don't think is satisfactory. Any help/advice/links etc would be much appreciated, thanks.
My system spec:
Athlon 2700+
ASUS A7N8X-D
1024MB Corsair 3200
Radeon 9600 Pro
NEC 3550A DVD-RW
Lite-On LTR-522465 CD-RW
Windows XP Pro
My system spec:
Athlon 2700+
ASUS A7N8X-D
1024MB Corsair 3200
Radeon 9600 Pro
NEC 3550A DVD-RW
Lite-On LTR-522465 CD-RW
Windows XP Pro