500GB SATA drive will not format

[pedxing]

Hi, I am using XPSP2 Pro and I'm having an issue installing an additional hard drive intended to be used for data only (no OS). The drive is a brand new Seagate 500GB internal/SATA, and I am trying to format the drive NTFS with the default cluster size. For some reason the formatting will get to roughly 50% and an alarm goes off on my Abit NF7 mobo. I also get a small "Logical Disc Manager: The format did not complete successfully" notification box from Windows. FWIW, Both the WD Raptor drive with the OS and the new Seagate drive are on a Highpoint Rocketraid 1540 PCI controller card that I have been using for 4 years now. Any ideas what could be causing the formatting problem, and what could be causing my mobo's alarm to go off? I do not want to jump to any conclusions and have this drive RMA'd just yet (although this could be the case).

Thanks for any input.

 

[Nodsu]

You can always test the drive with the Seagate diagnostics utility. Needs a non-RAID SATA controller though.The JBOD mode on your Highpoint may not be enough.

You do have the latest drivers and BIOS for your controller card?

 

[pedxing]

You can always test the drive with the Seagate diagnostics utility. Needs a non-RAID SATA controller though.

Yup, I have tried the Seatools CD and the controller is the problem. Won't recognize the drive at all.

As far as the driver/bios update it appears that v.2.06s is the most recent but the Highpoint site has a broken link for it. Any place else I should try to find this? I've been looking and no luck yet.

TIA

 

[Tedster]

definitely a driver issue.

see this for more clues: https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic36678.html