Sata noob ds3 help

[C64]

Hi i'm having massive problems with my new sata drive
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-111-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=167
i am completely new to serial ata i have no idea what settings to use
on a gigabyte ds3 its taken me 2 hours just to get my ide drive with xp back working again.Pulling my hair out here
Right so i have the dvdrw plugged in to IDE and the sata drive plugged in to slot 0 on the board i am not doing a raid 0 config.

SATA AHCI MODE - enabled or disabled ? no idea
SATA Port0-3 Native mode enabled or disabled ? no idea
Onboard SATA IDE device enabled or disabled ? no idea
Onboard SATA IDE control mode IDE /AHCI/RAID well i know not raid but which one?

I have actually managed to just about get it working
I got to the stage where i could format the disk via xp setup
but it just stays there forever if i *format ntfs slow* which i believe is correct
it does quick format no problem but on slow i left it a good 2 hours + twice
and it was at 70% and 69% and seemed to get stuck.
ANy help appreciated really dont have a clue what to do am about to try
booting into xp on my ide with xp on it with the sata disk also connected
and see if i can format it there.
The manual is very vague doesnt really tell me whats what.
Ideally i want to be able to run the operating system on the sata and have the dvdrw and an additional IDE HDD on the same ide which works with 1x ide
and 1xdvdrw.Cant you run sata and ide hdd's at the same time?

 

[rpstewart]

SATA AHCI MODE - enabled or disabled ? no idea
SATA Port0-3 Native mode enabled or disabled ? no idea
Onboard SATA IDE device enabled or disabled ? no idea
Onboard SATA IDE control mode IDE /AHCI/RAID well i know not raid but which one?

I'd go for:

SATA AHCI MODE - disabled
SATA Port0-3 Native mode - disabled
Onboard SATA IDE device - enabled
Onboard SATA IDE control mode IDE /AHCI/RAID - doesn't matter, this is for the Gigaraid SATA ports.

No idea why the format is pausing, I never bother with the full format anyway it takes far too long for my liking.

There's certainly no problem with running SATA and IDE drives at the same time.

 

[IAmATeaf]

What I did was to enable the GigaSATA2 controller and set it to IDE mode, then install the OS, once the OS is up and running then enable AHCI on the main SATA controller, boot up and install the Intel Matrix drivers. Then shutdown and move the drive over onto SATA port 0 and the system should boot up.

The only reason I had to do it this way was as I didn't have a floppy disk available at the time so couldn't do an F6 to load the Intel drivers at install time.

 

[C64]

SATA AHCI MODE - disabled
SATA Port0-3 Native mode - disabled
Onboard SATA IDE device - enabled
Onboard SATA IDE control mode IDE /AHCI/RAID - doesn't matter, this is for the Gigaraid SATA ports.

If i use those settings my ide hdd isnt detected and it hangs for ages
on startup then says disk boot failure
i havent got cdrom as first boot device
only way i get the ide master which is all i have plugged in at mo
is to set :
SATA AHCI MODE - ENABLED
SATA Port0-3 Native mode - ENABLED
Onboard SATA IDE device - enabled
Onboard SATA IDE control mode AHCI

Maybe i have to have the sata as the master and cannot have the ide drive
as the master?Im trying to boot into xp with the ide as master and sata as
slave just so i can try format it in disk management.

 

[C64]

Giving up on i for now it's so complicated
now i can boot xp from ide hdd with the sata connected
the ide is set to boot before the sata but now
my primary and secondary ide channels have no drivers installed
when install drivers and restart still not installed ah well
i guess i'll just get there in the end through trial and error.
Thanks for helping though.I will try your method.

 

[C64]

Got there in the end was unable to format ntfs file system slow though.
had to do what you said use the onboard connection couldnt update
raid driver though said i didnt meet system requirements.
All seems to be well now though fingers crossed thanks again.