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SATA Drama.... Need Help...

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sammy5gs

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Hey Guys...

I am building a new rig for a friend, and he wants to use a Samsung SP8012C SATA Hard Drive. The mobo is an Aopen AK-86L.

Now, I will be honest with you, I have never setup a SATA before. And before I forget, it is not going to be used in a RAID array, just a single SATA HDD. He also has a DVD Rom that he wants to put on the IDE Channel. The OS he wants on is Windows XP Pro.

When I installed all the hardware and got into the Bios, I did not see the SATA drive. I just saw the DVD Rom as Primary Master IDE. Now, I thought at this point I screwed up, and shoudl have put the DVD-Rom on the Secondary IDE Channel. So I re-wire the cable, and got back into Bios, and still no SATA? I then go through the process of claiming ignorance and pretend to believe this never happenned so I go about trying to install XP from the DVD. Everything looks right up until I get to the point where it tells me XP cannot find a HDD.

Bottomline, please help the SATA-noob here. What is going on and how can I get this thing up and running?
 
SATA might appear as SCSI in the bios. You'll have to change your boot sequence to boot off SCSI first. The drive shouldn't show up in the primary post, but should show whenever the SATA bios screen loads.
 
IcedEmotion said:
SATA might appear as SCSI in the bios. You'll have to change your boot sequence to boot off SCSI first. The drive shouldn't show up in the primary post, but should show whenever the SATA bios screen loads.
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SATA Bios? At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is the SATA Bios screen? Is that the screen after post? The screen passes by so fast, that I do believe I see some wording on the next screen after POST (before it loads from the DVD-Rom) of knowing a Samsung HDD is tere, but again, my main problem is that Windows XP is not finding an HDD anywhere.
 
sammy5gs said:
SATA Bios? At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is the SATA Bios screen? Is that the screen after post? The screen passes by so fast, that I do believe I see some wording on the next screen after POST (before it loads from the DVD-Rom) of knowing a Samsung HDD is tere, but again, my main problem is that Windows XP is not finding an HDD anywhere.
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Ah sorry, I missed the point about XP not finding the drive. What I said would only be a worry if you're trying to boot off the SATA drive.

Before XP will recognise the drive you'll have to partition and format it, either using software provided by the HD company or typing 'fdisk' in the dos command prompt.

The SATA bios screen should appear right after the BIOS post screen. It should show the manufacturer of your controller and search for any SATA drives. If this isn't showing up, try checking your motherboard jumpers and make sure you have SATA enabled if it's an onboard controller.

Edit: Also, if you're trying to do a fresh install, there's a portion of the setup that says 'Press F3 to load any third party SCSI/RAID drivers'. You might have to press F3 and provide your drivers for your SATA controller before the install will find the drive.
 
sammy5gs said:
Hey Guys...

I am building a new rig for a friend, and he wants to use a Samsung SP8012C SATA Hard Drive. The mobo is an Aopen AK-86L.

Now, I will be honest with you, I have never setup a SATA before. And before I forget, it is not going to be used in a RAID array, just a single SATA HDD. He also has a DVD Rom that he wants to put on the IDE Channel. The OS he wants on is Windows XP Pro.

When I installed all the hardware and got into the Bios, I did not see the SATA drive. I just saw the DVD Rom as Primary Master IDE. Now, I thought at this point I screwed up, and shoudl have put the DVD-Rom on the Secondary IDE Channel. So I re-wire the cable, and got back into Bios, and still no SATA? I then go through the process of claiming ignorance and pretend to believe this never happenned so I go about trying to install XP from the DVD. Everything looks right up until I get to the point where it tells me XP cannot find a HDD.

Bottomline, please help the SATA-noob here. What is going on and how can I get this thing up and running?
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same thing happened to me, go to his mobo's manufacturer's website and d/l the SATA drivers to a floppy, then install them when WindowsXP boots from CD and says "Press F6 To Install Independant SCSI Device" or w/e

that's what I did, but my BIOS still doesn't detect it (it has my CD-R as IDE0 Master, which is why I can't get Linux setup (i think))
 
Ok. So just to confirm. Unlike parallel IDE drives, Windows XP Installer cannot create a partition/format from within the installer?

And yes, SATA is enabled on the Bios.
 
sammy5gs said:
Ok. So just to confirm. Unlike parallel IDE drives, Windows XP Installer cannot create a partition/format from within the installer?

And yes, SATA is enabled on the Bios.
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It should be able to, but you'll have to load the SATA drivers manually.
 
put the drivers on a floppy

boot the windows install CD

press F6 when it says the stuff about "additional SCSI drivers" or whatnot.
 
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