Please help with PCI SATA controller install

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So I got the Rosewill card 4Sata card with RAID for my old AMD Socket A mobo for my file server

Plugged it in. And it detects the drive connected to it fine. But is just frozen in DOS mode in the Detecting Array screen.

Then says press Ctrl+s or F4 to enter RAID utility. But it just frozen at this screen and doesn't respond to the keyboard or anything!

I do not want RAID on this thing. Any advice on what to do?

I have 1 PATA connected to Master IDE and 2 other onboard SATA hard drives.
I really need some help, I've spent almost the entire day trying to figure this out and no luck


*BTW, if I unplug the drive from the card it boots fine. Installed the drivers fine.
AND since SATA is hot swappable if I connect the SATA cable while the computer is already booted in windows to the card. The hard drive is detected fine and formats well and everything is good!

I have no idea what is causing this issue.
 
I just googled that card with freebsd. (bought a Promise tx4 I think, instead);
... to see what the issue might be.

1... you might have luck if you put the 1.5 jumper in/off on the drive (guessing)
2... one usenet message mentioned that you might get corrupted data if you got
it working. I don't know if that is related to the 1.5 / 3.0 issue (which in itself is just
a guess). or if that occurance was due to faulty cable/drive/dying drive issues instead.
or the chipset or driver quality...
 
A while ago I bought a Promise card that had similar issues. But I couldn't even get the driver installed on that card....

I really don't know what to do at this point.
 
"rosewill card" raid bios keys
.............
that search into groups.google.com points to threads, which
suggest a solution may/may not.... appear depending upon
how much time you spend.
.........
what is the OS? what sizes are the drives? are the
drive sizes larger than that supported by bios?
..........
when attempting something like raid I usually
follow someone else's guide more or less
explicitly, even down to the OS and drive
sizes maybe
 
I am NOT doing a RAID setup... I'm running WHS so NO RAID.

The size is 1.5Tb of the drive connected to it. The card reads it just fine...

Also if it's disconnected and i reconnect it once windows boots, it works great, healthy and NO problems...


Also I got it to boot twice somehow by resetting the Mobo BIOS through the CMOS jumper, but then it randomly started freezing again.
 
i had this issue with a sil3132 based sata controller i needed to flash the firmware of the card to the required version so that i could it as sata ports and not in raid mode.

there should be two firmware versions for your card one for non raid one for raid flash the one you require
 
I can't seem to find any firmware for the Rosewill RC-209EX card. Only drivers which I think I already installed in windows (had to load it disconnected from the drive of course)... If any of you guys knows a place where to get the firmware Iwould appreciate it.
 
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