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you should not update the bios...the issue is the hard disk is on sata ...and you need a raid driver installed to detect the hdd...so ...either get into BIOS and under advanced features..look the place where the drives are detected..and select the hdd and look for a feature called AHCI ..and disable it ..and leave sata like ide..and save with f10 and restart ...after that the hdd will be seen .. another way is to make a floppy disk with the raid driver on it (the one from the mothermoard drivers disk ) ..and when it ask you to press f6 for 3rd party software ...press it ..and insert the floppy ...it will pick up the raid driver and will go like a charm .. if you do not have a floppy ..install a second cd drive ..and use a cd ..and after pressing f6 for 3rd party ..browse and point to the raid driver on the mobo driver cd ..
either the cable ..the plug or the lack of a raid driver if it uses one ...first ..go to bios and restore to factory optimal defaults..that save changes with f10 ...than reboot... let the computer search for it and reinstall it automatically ...if it still saying the same ..try to reinstall the ok ...if this is a message durring installing there is either a bios setting made in the wrong way ..but it will be corrected after reset to defaults..or the hdd is corrupted beyond the usable point.. also check if it needs a raid driver ...(in case you installed a second hdd and you can still boot it ... this can be done by checking into the device manager ... right click on my computer icon ...than properties/hardware ...device manager ...there any lack of driver will be signaled by yellow color on the device..in case the raid driver is needed for this drive to be seen ..insert the motherboard drivers cd ..and install it ..or ..install it duriing the operation system's installation by pressing the F6 right after booting from cd ..but in this case you need a floppy disk..
ATA/IDE has nothing to do with SATA. Ignore. Try plugging in the drives into the non RAID sata ports on the motherboard. I think when you disable raid you also disable the raid ports. You should have another set of sata ports on the motherboard, probably a different colour.
i have a problem when i connect usb floppy drive it is shows usb connected but when i insert disk it will not show the floppy and how to raid data and format tell me arzent
The Raid's not showing from the startup? You may be infected. Viruses tend to infect one drive only but this tends to break the Raid. Most non-Raid anti-virus software won't do a good job at cleaning both (or more) drives. Check your BIOS to make sure the Raid is turned on. Then run a good Raid anti-virus program.
HI thanks for reply. i must say im new to this raid stuff. i was given the server by my coworker because he could not get the other drive to show in windows. he got fustrated and gave it to me. so i tey at home. ok here is what i have.
Dell poweredge 1600sc. it has two gig ram. I open the case andther it has one primary hdd and four other hdd connected on one ribbon to the board. it had windows server 2003 all ready on it. I was in the set up (ctrl +m) and i saw the drives say ready. i hit the space bar to set array. after i did that it say i had to initlize it before i reboot. now the drives say online. i boot into windows and the drives are still do not show. am i looking in the right place. i know. im stupid. go ahead and laugh.
plus is there a good place to lean this raid stuff. thanks. nezza
This is good for you as well. It shows me & you that your board can handel 4 each DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) IDE Hard drives/ CD/DVD drives IDE-1Primary & IDE-2 Primary Slave. Each can run 2 IDE drives. Also 4 each Serial ATA SATA's. Two separate SATA controllers with integrated PHYs, each supporting two drives in master mode. In your manual on pg.32 & 33 will help you to setup a RAID if you wish. Or you can also set the RAID to IDE which will allow you to use all your SATA hard disks as a single drive without setting up a RAID system. The site above supplies all your drivers needed & manual. If you need more help please let me know here.
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The P5K motherboard has a four port vanilla ICH9. There Is no RAID on the Intel, when the chip has only four ports? So S1, S2, S3, S4 are not RAID. In the P5K manual, the RAID function exists on the Jmicron Controller. One drive connector is internal (SATA_E2, on the Left of the motherboard picture in the manual), and one Drive connector is external (F_ESATA on the back I/O area). This is not convenient for building a RAID0. (The intent is To allow making RAID1 backup disks.) You'll have to snake The SATA cable back into the computer, if you hope to use It with two internal SATA disks. The manual has full instructions for setting up RAID on the Jmicron JMB363. The manual says to set the Jmicron to RAID Mode in the BIOS. Two disks must be connected, in order to Be able to press <control-J> at the start of the BIOS, to Enter the Jmicron RAID setup in the BIOS. At that point, you Can declare an array in the BIOS setup. Then, when Windows is installing from the Microsoft install CD, You’ll need to press F6 and offer the Jmicron RAID driver. Section 5.5 of the Asus manual, describes how to make A RAID driver floppy. The application in the mother board cd is available for make drivers disk
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