OK guys this is kind of a weird one. All the posts I have seen from people concerning their problems getting their SATA-II drives to work due to them being set to 3.0Gb/s rather than 1.5.
I have just installed my 500Gig T7K500 under Vista and had to install and IDE SATA driver for my Promise Raid controller. All went well and the controller was found, I plugged in the drive and put the boot cd for Feature Tool into the drive. As the bios did its business I noticed that the Promise Raid recognised the drive straight away. NB: I also have 2 x WDC 36.7 Gig Raptors in RAID on the VIA raid as my system drives. Feature Tool loaded up and did its bus scan and found absolutely everything (including the VIA RAIDed Raptors) but did not display the Hitachi drive whatsoever.
This is the weird part. Everyone else is complaing that Windows does not see the drive at all but I have been able to go into disk management and partition/format it into 2 primaries without any problems. The drives show up in My Computer and I am currently copying a folder across but is showing under Vista's calculations as copying at 850k/s.
The upshot is that it seems to be working of a fashion but is very slow and for some reason does not show up in Feature Tool. Do I presume that if this disk was indeed set at 3.0Gb/sec then it would not work at all?
Mainboard is Asus A8V Deluxe as per my sig.
TIA
BA
I have just installed my 500Gig T7K500 under Vista and had to install and IDE SATA driver for my Promise Raid controller. All went well and the controller was found, I plugged in the drive and put the boot cd for Feature Tool into the drive. As the bios did its business I noticed that the Promise Raid recognised the drive straight away. NB: I also have 2 x WDC 36.7 Gig Raptors in RAID on the VIA raid as my system drives. Feature Tool loaded up and did its bus scan and found absolutely everything (including the VIA RAIDed Raptors) but did not display the Hitachi drive whatsoever.
This is the weird part. Everyone else is complaing that Windows does not see the drive at all but I have been able to go into disk management and partition/format it into 2 primaries without any problems. The drives show up in My Computer and I am currently copying a folder across but is showing under Vista's calculations as copying at 850k/s.
The upshot is that it seems to be working of a fashion but is very slow and for some reason does not show up in Feature Tool. Do I presume that if this disk was indeed set at 3.0Gb/sec then it would not work at all?
Mainboard is Asus A8V Deluxe as per my sig.
TIA
BA