SATA Drive Not Recognized

For my stat drive I have a disk that went through some installations and partitions. For my western digital it was called data lifeguard tools. I think you can get it off their website.

OK, I disconnected the drive and uninstalled the drivers, reconnected it and went into BIOS. Under Integrated Periphials, this is what I found that seems to apply (the underlined choice is the one I have selected:

VIA OnChip IDE Devices ->
OnChip SATA - Enabled ; Disabled
IDE DMA transfer access - Enabled ; Disabled
OnChip IDE Channel0 - Enabled ; Disabled
OnChip IDE Channel1 - Enabled ; Disabled
Primary Master PI0 - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Primary Slave PI0 - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Secondary Master PI0 - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Secondary Slave PI0 - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Primary Master UDMA - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Primary Slave UDMA - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Secondary Master UDMA - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4
Secondary Slave UDMA - Auto ; Mode0 ; Mode1 ; Mode2; Mode3; Mode4

SuperIO Device ->
Onboard FDC Controller - Enabled ; Disabled
Onboard Serial Port 1 - Auto ; 3F8/IRQ4 ; 2F8/IRQ3 ; 3E8/IRQ4 ; 2E8/IRQ3 ; Disabled
Onboard Serial Port 2 - Auto ; 3F8/IRQ4 ; 2F8/IRQ3 ; 3E8/IRQ4 ; 2E8/IRQ3 ; Disabled
UART Mode Select - Normal ; ASKIR ; IrDA
*Other Settings here that change depending upon the previous selection*
Onboard Parallel Port - Disabled ; 378/IRQ7 ; 278/IRQ5 ; 3BC/IRQ7
Parallel Port Mode - SPP ; EPP ; ECP ; ECP + EPP ; Normal
ECP Mode Use DMA - 1 ; 3

The other settings in the Integrated Periphials section were about PCI stuff that I did think applied. Will changing any of those settings help?

Thanks!

you could try using maxblast itll find it and format it

I just installed Linux (Debian 3.1) and it does not see the drive either. So either a BIOS setting needs to be changed or the drive is defective, what do you think?

from reading your first post youve already got 2 hdd's in and what roms have you got in (dvd/cdr) ?

ould it be you havnt enough power try taking the power of one of your hdd's obviously not the one with O S in and then try the divers for sata/raid off your chipset disc which you put onto floppy ive only ever done one sata drive a 80 gig one in the kids's pc its the only drive in there and i used the cd which came with the motherboard and browsed it in the chipset folder i found raid drivers there was two items which i put onto floppy and then rebooted the pc pressed f6 for to install raid drivers it read them and then went ahead with the fromat and then installed windows on ive never tried to install one as a second drive i can only assume that when you boot press f6 to loadd sata drivers then when windows comes on goto drive management and if its in there fromat it from windows.

If you think the drives faulty take it back to the shop they will test it and let you know but if your getting no fault sound from the motherboard i wouldnt think it was broken .

you could also try taking all the drives out and just installing the sata the way i did' there could be the IRQ has conflicts and you need to assign the drive to an IRQ that isnt being used.

I hope it's OK to post my problem in an old thread.

I'm running Athlon 64 2800+ with MSI K8M Neo-V with Maxtor 80GB IDE and LG DVD RW on the same IDE cable. The board has 2 IDE ports and 2 SATA ports. The board has a VT8237 Southbridge.

I got a 160GB WD Caviar SATA (WD1600AABS) drive and tried connecting it to the board. SATA is enabled in the bios. On booting windows does detect a new hardware. After installing the driver provided on the motherboard CD, all i could see in the device manager was "VIA SATA Raid Controller" with a yellow exclamation mark. I downloaded and installed the updated driver and various other driver for the 8237 chipset and the error in the device manager changed to "VIA Raid Controller-3149".

Since the drive is not functioning, it does not show in My Computer. The drive is already formatted, has 4 partitions and has data on it as well. It works fine on other/newer machines.

Got the hard disk to work.

i jumped pin 5-6 to reduce the data rate to 150 Mbps and all the problems vanished.