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PCI SATA controller woes...

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karmasore

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Hello friends,

I've been given the assignment to set up a new PCI SATA controller on a co-workers PC. Anyways, it's needless to say that I'm running into problems. Here are the directions that are posted on the SATA controllers' manufacturers website (located here: http://www.koutech.com/faq.asp?category=IDE)

Q:
How to install a new windows installation to hard drive attached to the PSA150 SATA Raid card?
A:
STEP 1 Make sure to copy the Windows driver from the Driver CD on to a 1.44MB floppy diskette. You will need the driver in the 1.44MB floppy diskette during the installation.
(a) With Raid function: Copy the\Silicon_Image\SIL3x12RAID\Windows driver from the Driver CD to the diskette.
(b) Without Raid function: Copy the \Silicon_Image\SIL3x12\Windows driver from the Driver CD to the diskette.
STEP 2: Connect the HD to the PSA150 controller card and insert the card into PCI slot. Start up the system.
STEP 3: Boot up your Windows. Press "F6" for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of the text mode installation. Insert the 1.44MB floppy diskette into the floppy drive. Press "S" when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device.
STEP 5: Press "ENTER" to continue on with text mode setup.
STEP 6: Follow the setup instructions to complete installling Windows.
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I've been following this procedure 100%. However, when Windows installation looks for the controller drivers on the A:/, it cannot find them. I have tried 2 different floppies and neither one is working. Could it be a bad floppy drive in the desktop that I'm working on? Or is Windows just being a bitch?

I'm a noob at setting SATA raids. Basically all I want to do it get Windows installed on one of the SATA HDD's that I have connected to this PCI controller. Any help from some of you more experienced dude's would be greatly appreciated.
 
hi make sure you expand the files like, bb-run.sys , ULSATA2 < security catalog, Ulsata2< setup information, ilsata2.sys , ulutil2.dll.<< this files just for example make sure you have gotten everything in the driver winxp folder to your floppy disk. make sure you fromat your Disk befor you add some files to it. oh another things is that i think you where in the raid folder>> Silicon_Image\SIL3x12RAID is there another folder just SIL3X12 i think all the files for nonraid SATA drivers are in that folder just make sure you take everything out of the folder of winxp and added to the disk with the rest of the files i think that sould work
wel good luck
 
thanks for the suggestions. however, no matter what files i put on the floppy, the windows installation will not detect the disk. the only thing i can think of at this point is that the floppy drive is faulty. i've tried setting the floppy as the first boot device in the BIOS to see if it would give me a DISK BOOT FAILURE but it didn't even bother trying to read the floppy and booted straight to my cd-rom which i have set as the 2nd boot device.

the green light on the floppy is constantly on as well, even when there is no disk in it. that may be a sign that it's broken.

if anyone else has any more suggestions, it would be great
 
ok i read up on nlite. one question though. how will throwing the drivers onto the windows xp install cd do me any good? the problem is that i'm stuck at where windows installation can't find a hard drive to install to. when i hit F6 and haveit try to recognize the sata controllers drivers on the floppy, it would recognize the disk....unless i can get the windows installation cd to install the pci sata controller drivers automatically at the beginning of installation, i'm basically screwed, right?
 
No, use nlite to integrate them as text mode drivers. It will have the same impact as successfully using the F6 method.
 
karmasore said:
thanks for the suggestions. however, no matter what files i put on the floppy, the windows installation will not detect the disk. the only thing i can think of at this point is that the floppy drive is faulty. i've tried setting the floppy as the first boot device in the BIOS to see if it would give me a DISK BOOT FAILURE but it didn't even bother trying to read the floppy and booted straight to my cd-rom which i have set as the 2nd boot device.

the green light on the floppy is constantly on as well, even when there is no disk in it. that may be a sign that it's broken.

if anyone else has any more suggestions, it would be great
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My god. The light is on constantly? That means the ribbon cable is in the wrong way. Try flipping the cable around on the drive. No wonder your having problems with the floppy drive.
 
hity645 said:
My god. The light is on constantly? That means the ribbon cable is in the wrong way. Try flipping the cable around on the drive. No wonder your having problems with the floppy drive.
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i don't know if i should laugh or cry. i flipped the cable around and windows installation recognized my floppy disk instantly.

althoug its been sitting at "Setup is starting Windows" for a while now...is that normal?
 
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