Promise Fasttrack 378 Issue

Hi, was just wondering if somebody with more knowledge than me could solve
this riddle:

I've just installed XP 64Bit on my system based on an Asus A8V-Deluxe MoBo,
using SATA Drives. However, after installing 64Bit drivers for the Promise
Fasttrack 378 Controller (which the system says is now working fine), the
system does not recognize the SATA drive attached to it. It operating in IDE
Mode.

If anybody can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Nick


"If all else fails, beat it with a hammer."

 

You have to change it in the BIOS...the choices are SATA or IDE as default,
yours is probably set to IDE.

Bobby

 

Bobby,

Yes, it was in IDE Mode, but that doesn't really matter, it doesn't see
it in RAID Mode either. This really blows, I need the storage space.

Nick

 

The Fasttrack 378 driver will recognize 2-SATA drives in a Raid array, which
I've been using for over a year. I haven't tested it using a single drive.

 

The a8v deluxe has 2 places on the board to install those sata's make
sure your using the right ones .i had much better luck using the via
controller with the correct drivers from planetamd64.com

 

Thanks for the feed back so far, I really apprecaite it.

Right now, I'm using two drives on the VIA Chipset SATA Controller, and just
one drive on the Promise Controller; for 3 SATA Drives total. The 2 on the
VIA SATA Controllers are working like a champ, with drivers I pulled from
www.viaarena.com. I located the Promise drivers at www.planetamd64.com,
(which is an excellent resource, thank you to everyone in these threads that
have recommended it), those are installing fine, with the exception of not
recognizing the drive when in IDE Operation Mode. Quirky bug maybe??? I can
try to get ahold of another SATA drive to see if it will detect the drives in
RAID Mode. Maybe?

 

The promise drivers are for raid only, there are no SATA drivers at the
moment for the 378, the only thing you can try is to set it to raid in bios
and see if it will let you make a single disk array, I've done that before
and it works ok

 

I'll give it a try. Thanks, everybody, for all the help; I greatly
appreciate it. This has Definitely been a Learning XPerience(x64). C-Ya
around the threads, and enjoy the weekend.

Nick