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Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing
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Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing
Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Posted by janiklitalien
(22 messages posted)
Hi Everyone, about a year ago, I bought a GXT Serial-ATA Two port PCI adaptor as
I wanted to add 2 more hard drives.
At the time, I added 2x20 Gb IDE drives and they worked ok.
Now I've gotten my hands on 2x250 GB SATA drives (which are the starting point of
my new Quad-core machine but I'm getting it piece-by-piece due to spousal resistance
)
So I hook up the Drives onto the pci card, start the whole thing up and disk management
sees (and is currently formatting) only one of 2 drives.
I've refreshed and re-refreshed and it's not seeing #2
The BIOS sees both on startup as primary master 1 & 2 if that's got anything to do
with it and the ALI Raid setup also sees both but I'm not sure of how that thing
works anyway.
So why is the system not seeing SATA HD # 2 ???
My PC is a
ASUS P4 VP Mx
2 GB DDR
P4 3.0
Thanks in advance !
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re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing
Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Posted by janiklitalien
(22 messages posted)
Ok so I'm not sure of what I did but now both are showing...
Thanks everyone, although I got no answer, I could feeeeel your moral support. Cheers
!
On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm, janiklitalien wrote:
>Hi Everyone, about a year ago, I bought a GXT Serial-ATA Two port PCI adaptor as
>I wanted to add 2 more hard drives.
>
>At the time, I added 2x20 Gb IDE drives and they worked ok.
>
>Now I've gotten my hands on 2x250 GB SATA drives (which are the starting point of
>my new Quad-core machine but I'm getting it piece-by-piece due to spousal resistance
>)
>
>So I hook up the Drives onto the pci card, start the whole thing up and disk management
>sees (and is currently formatting) only one of 2 drives.
>
>I've refreshed and re-refreshed and it's not seeing #2
>
>The BIOS sees both on startup as primary master 1 & 2 if that's got anything to
do
>with it and the ALI Raid setup also sees both but I'm not sure of how that thing
>works anyway.
>
>So why is the system not seeing SATA HD # 2 ???
>
>My PC is a
>
>ASUS P4 VP Mx
>2 GB DDR
>P4 3.0
>
>Thanks in advance !
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re: Only 1 of 2 SATA hard drives is showing
Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Posted by Johnb33
(2283 messages posted)
Most likely you had hardware raid setup which will only see 1 drive. You must have
changed it to non raid which made it see 2 drives.
On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 4:58 pm, janiklitalien wrote:
>Ok so I'm not sure of what I did but now both are showing...
>
>Thanks everyone, although I got no answer, I could feeeeel your moral support. Cheers
>!
>
>
>
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