SATA378 Tx2 Plus Problem

[mkdemo]

Hello,

I'm trying to get a Seagate 160GB SATA drive to work with Windows 7. The drive is deteced in BIOS and i can see this line when it boots up: SATA378 Tx2 Plus DO - Detected. When i get into Windows and access Disk Management the drive is not listed.

I've been searching for hours with no luck and really need some help. I don't have any experience with SATA drives so it could be something simple.

I Have a ASUS K8V SE Duelux Motherboard.

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello mkdemo, welcome to Seven Forums!





As an experiment, disconnect the HDD and boot Windows to the desktop a couple separate times, then shut-down completely and reconnect the HDD to see if it now gets detected by Windows.
Be sure to post back with an update.

 

[Lemur]

Hopefully this will help ...
Windows 7 SATA Hard Drive Not Showing | Buehler Family Updates and Photo Gallery

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hopefully this will help ...
Windows 7 SATA Hard Drive Not Showing | Buehler Family Updates and Photo Gallery

I would really like to hear back if this works.

 

[mkdemo]

Hey. Thanks for the replies. I have tried unplugging the drive > restarting and it still does not appear in Windows Disk Managment.

Thanks for the link Lemur, sounds promising. I'm going to try it out now and ill get back to you with an update.

Cheers,

 

[mkdemo]

I inserted the Windows disk and still the drive did not appear. I booted from the disk as the link said but still the disk did not show up. As for the part where it said go into Device Manager, the disk does not show up so i cannot uninstall it and re-scan.

I just dont understand why the BIOS can see the SATA drive and Windows can't.

Anymore ideas?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello mate, that's too bad, I was hoping it would work and I'm fresh out of ideas at the moment; keep checking back though as someone may have a solution for you at any time.

 

[Lemur]

HOW ABOUT THIS?

ASUS K8V SE Deluxe motherboard only supports SATA1 and you are trying to use a SATA2 drive. Jumper it down to 150MB/S and then it will be picked up on the SATA1 port. Please let me know if that's it!!!

 

[mkdemo]

Hey ppl. Thanks for all the tips. I put the jumper in to set it to SATA1 and still no luck! Still shows up in BIOS but Windows just aint having it. I'm all out of ideas!

If anyone thinks of anything else i would love to hear it.

Cheers,

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Too bad mate, keep checking back though.

 

[Kevin Jendro]

I know people are trying to help, but hmmm. He already said the drive was detected by the Promise controller and listed in post bios boot. The answer is that you need a driver that works in Windows 7 for your Promise Sata378 TX2 D0 controller. If you go to Asus's Motherboard site:

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download P4P800-E Deluxe

and select the 2nd driver:

Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode)


Then make the disk, you can then just update your driver for the unknown raid device and point it to the win2003 folder on the disk. I haven't been able to find a newer driver than .26 unfortunately. The firmware on mine is .33 but this driver works just fine. Let me know if this helps.

Kevin