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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / October 2004S-ATA on Asus P4PE Promise Fastrack controller :-(
I bought a new 80GB S-ATA disk to use with my P4PE onboard Promise Fastrack S-ATA controller, but I'm not gettings things to work :-( The Promise flashes a "no array defined" error messages at boot and the drive is not visible from Win 98se (drivers installed) or FDISK (I plan to upgrade to WinXP as soon as I have the new drive working) If I define a STRIPED array from the Promise BIOS setup the disk is visible from Win98se or FDISK, but the size is only 12GB's :-(((((( (when creating a STRIP array I must choose STRIPE block size, what is this, with only one disk it sin't really a STRIPED array, is it :-) So, HOW do I use the Promise Fastrack S-ATA controller as a regular S-ATA controller with only one S-ATA disk connected? Please help!!  SignatureLars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ # 7297605 Win98se, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live! Did you install the promise 378 ATA driver? I had 1 Seagate 160 SATA drive on the promise controller and it worked fine until I bought another. Switched to Raid driver and changed to raid in bios and has worked like a charm in Windows XP SP2. >I bought a new 80GB S-ATA disk to use with my P4PE onboard Promise > Fastrack S-ATA controller, but I'm not gettings things to work :-( [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > So, HOW do I use the Promise Fastrack S-ATA controller as a regular > S-ATA controller with only one S-ATA disk connected? Please help!! tk skrev: > Did you install the promise 378 ATA driver? I had 1 Seagate > 160 SATA drive on the promise controller and it worked fine > until I bought another. Switched to Raid driver and changed to raid in bios Got it working. Used another FDISK-like utilty to partition it. Seem to work OK (old P-ATA 11MB/sec, new S-ATA 40 MB/sec :-) SignatureLars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ # 7297605 Win98se, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live! Now even if I got the S-ATA drive visible from DOS and Win98 (used Ranish Partition Manager to make an active PRI FAT-32 partition) I can boot from the S-ATA drive. I have formatted it from a floppy disk and from WIn98se with system. And everything look OK, but when I set the S-ATA as boot drive (I think I have set the options for the P4PE right, but if anyone could brief me, plese do) no boot happends. That is no "Starting Win98..." prompt. Just doesn't happend anything :-( Now what is the problem? Why doesn't the bootloader start at all? Is there something about the MBR and/or partitioning from Ranish? The drive is visible (and useful) at full speed from Win98se (if I boot from the old P-ATA disk that is), but not boot from S-ATA :-( SignatureLars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ # 7297605 Win98se, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live! Lars-Erik Østerud skrev: > The drive is visible (and useful) at full speed from Win98se (if I > boot from the old P-ATA disk that is), but not boot from S-ATA :-( OK, something with the MBR, I ran an FDISK /mbr on the new disk, and after that it booted as it should (allthough some programs, like Zonelarm and Avast, lost all configuration, even though the new disk is a true copy of the old, why didn't the config survive the copy?) SignatureLars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ # 7297605 Win98se, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live! |
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