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September 28th, 2006 03:00
Dimension 9100 not recognizing onboard SATA drives while using PCI-X raid controller card
As the title says, I have a Dimension 9100. The onboard SATA raid has 1 drive hooked up. Segate 160 gb hard drive that it shipped with. The BIOS Setting was RAID/AHCI.
Today I installed a PCI Express raid controller card with 2 ports, along with 2 160 gb segate drives for RAID 1 use. After having to slipstream both the raid drivers into an XP installation CD, I finally got the OS loaded on the second drive, but, now I run into a few problems.
When booting with the above setup, I get an error on boot complaining about BIOS' inability to find SATA-0, No Drive Configured.
I boot into windows on the new raid array fine.
The only solution I've come up with is, switching to combination mode for the lone SATA drive.
Is this going to cause a slowdown by switching to combination mode? Does combination mode switch the SATA to ATA mode, or does it run in SATA still?
Any thoughts as to why I couldnt boot using 2 raid controllers?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Today I installed a PCI Express raid controller card with 2 ports, along with 2 160 gb segate drives for RAID 1 use. After having to slipstream both the raid drivers into an XP installation CD, I finally got the OS loaded on the second drive, but, now I run into a few problems.
When booting with the above setup, I get an error on boot complaining about BIOS' inability to find SATA-0, No Drive Configured.
I boot into windows on the new raid array fine.
The only solution I've come up with is, switching to combination mode for the lone SATA drive.
Is this going to cause a slowdown by switching to combination mode? Does combination mode switch the SATA to ATA mode, or does it run in SATA still?
Any thoughts as to why I couldnt boot using 2 raid controllers?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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NemesisDB
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September 28th, 2006 16:00
it sounds like the onboard first sata port is set up on in the bios but there is no drive attached. if this is the case simply flip the option to off so that the dell bios (correctly) does not expect a drive to be attached to this onboard port.
jafarykos
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September 28th, 2006 18:00
I have 3 hard drives. all 3 are 160 gb segate drives.
Drive 1: Came with the computer, hooked up to SATA-0 on the Intel Motherboard raid controller.
Drive 2 & 3: Purchased recently, hooked up to the PCI-Express Raid Controller.
Currently, the only way I can get them to all work together is to change the Intel Motherboard's raid controller setting to "Combination" mode, via the bios. This allows my BIOS to see Drive 1 while booting. In any other configuration, the BIOS complains about it's inability to see SATA-0.
Pretty much it's saying "Hey, no drive is installed, so I cant boot."
Before I discovered I could switch to Combination Mode, the only way I could boot via the Raid 1 setup for Drives 2 & 3, was to change the boot order in the BIOS to make the PCI-Express RAID card boot before the SATA onboard setup.
Hopefully that clarifies it some.
Any ideas?
NemesisDB
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September 28th, 2006 19:00
Isn't that what you want? It sounds like your OS is on the two drivers in RAID? If that's true you want that controller to be in the boot order before the drive on SATA-0