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Harry wrote:
Also I don't see any evidence this upgrade would make the card work
with those 750 drives.
Paul replied:
You could perhaps try giving Adaptec a call or e-mail and see if
anyone there can tell you what that controller supports, since their
website doesn't really say.
Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the
1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been
a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
Apparently this card has a BIOS that is in 2 parts or maybe each on it
own chip. Their are 2
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the
1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been
a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
Apparently this
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk.
Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on
first IDE controller. The newly
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than
3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mentioned
on the drive about using pins is this:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than
3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied)
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes:
So installed jumper on 5-6 and booted up. I still get the same kind of
hang at the point where the adaptec PCI card throws up a screen.
Press F3 to enter configuration utility
Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah 19082 MB = old 200gb
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes:
Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the
chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is
4.2.84. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/
After downloading the bios upgrade and trying to figure
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes:
Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the
chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is
4.2.84.
Anthony Metcalf ne...@anferny.me.uk writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
[...]
Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to
before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk
Can you manually alter the order it tries disks?
I can, and it is set directly to boot
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk.
Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on
first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI
sata controller
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