You've checked mobo jumpers Sata jumpers are correctly set and that your
sata drive is connected to the correct port?
Your Bios setting for serial ports are corretly set?
The above is explained in your mobo manual
In Hardware devices check SCI & Raid Controllers is Sil 3112 sataraid
listed?
If not I believe you will find you need to create a floppy containing the
raid/stata drivers
Si3112r.mpd
TxtSetup.oem
Si3112r.inf
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.vxd
Then undertake a repair installation of winxp using the F6 option early in
the process to install third party drivers from floppy
*NB*
However I've just seen a tech document from Asus (A7N8x deLux) in which they
state " Drives connected to the Sil controler do not support none raid
function"
So my initial thoughts would seem to be irelevent
Unless possibly Sil driver has been update to support a single sata in JBOD
config and I'm afraid I cannot see any confirmation of this.
"Vince Radice" <putertutor@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:46f488cc$0$17073$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> DL wrote:
>> What motherboard?
>>
>> "Vince Radice" <putertutor@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:46f41a66$0$28875$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> smlunatick wrote:
>>>> On Sep 21, 2:16 pm, Vince Radice <putertu...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>> I have installed a SATA drive, but cannot get XP to recognize it. In
>>>>> particular, Device Manager sees it and says it is working properly,
>>>>> but
>>>>> Computer Management/Disk Management does not show it. It shows my two
>>>>> IDE drives, my CDR drive, and DVD drive. No SATA device As far as I
>>>>> can tell, I have the latest BIOS and drivers installed. I have looked
>>>>> into the BIOS Settings and cannot find anything there. Other places
>>>>> say
>>>>> I must format it before Windows will find it, but how can I format it
>>>>> if
>>>>> Windows can't find it? Thanks.
>>>> Did you install a SATA driver for the SATA drive controller? The SATA
>>>> drive must show up in the BIOS before XP can "see" it, unless the SATA
>>>> port is a SATA RAID port. Check with the motherboard manual or
>>>> manufacturer's web site. You need to install a SATA driver since XP
>>>> only is "supposed" to see Intel based SATA controllers.
>>>>
>>> Yes, the SATA driver is installed. Why does the drive show up in the
>>> Device Manager list but not the Disk Management window?
>>>
>>> The Device Manager says that the controller and the device are
>>> functioning properly.
>>
>>
> Motherboard - ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
> SATA Drive - Western Digital WS1200JD