HELP! INTEL ICH5R Controller/S-ATA - "No RAID"

Hi to all who gave me advice for setting up two S-ATA drives on the Intel ICH5R controller with "NO" RAID. I really need some help.
Well, I got my two "NEW" S-ATA drives this afternoon and after following the advice given by several users in this thread, I'm having ptoblems trying to install Windows XP and I'm getting messages like "missing operating system", "Invalid system disk, (when XP CD is in CD drive) replace the disk and press any key", so I need some help please.
Ok, I setup the BIOS settings in Integrated Perpherals/On-Chip IDE Configuration to:
Mode: NATIVE
ATA Configuration: S-ATA Only
Keep S-ATA Enabled: YES
Keep P-ATA Enabled: YES
P-ATA Channel Selection: BOTH
Configure S-ATA as RAID: NO
BTW, given that I will have two Seagate S-ATA drives on SER1 & SER2 and one P-ATA drive (LG CDRW) on IDE1 as Master and the other P-ATA drive (LG DVD) on IDE2 as Master, I was just wondering if the "other options" in "On-Chip IDE Configuration" may be causing my problems and need to be altered and if so, what to?
I.e. "Combined Mode Option" and S-ATA Ports Definition"
I then switched off the computer and connected my two Seagate S-ATA drives
(ST380013AS 7200.7 80GB on SER1 & ST3120026AS 7200.7 120GB on SER2).
I turned on computer and drives were shown on POST screen as "Third IDE Master (80GB) and 4th IDE Master (120GB). I then entered BIOS to check if they were shown and they were and I selected the "ST380013AS 7200.7 80GB drive" as my 3rd boot device with the CD as my first boot device and the floppy as my second.
BOTH drives were already set to "AUTO", but the label on the physical drives states that you should choose "AUTO" and enable "LARGE BLOCK ADDRESSING (LBA), but I could not see an option for this. I did not get any software with the disk but the drive label states that you chould use "Disc Wizard" but I did not have this so I used an updated Boot Floppy that works with drives up to 137GB. I FDISK'd the 80GB drive and formatted it to FAT32 (although I would not normally do this because XP setup always finds my new partitioned ATA133 drives and starts setup and then formats it).
Note: During format, the drive was shown as "Formatting 10,780.56M" and for an 80GB drive, this did not seem right but after formatting, it showed as 76,297,91MB total disk space. FDISK showed the drive as 76,317MBytes.
Also in the BIOS, the 80GB drive is shown with "CYLINDERS:38309", "HEADS:16", SECTORS:255", MAXIMUM CAPACITY:80GB and "WRITE PRECOMPENSATION:(nothing was shown for this - what is this and should there be a reading for it)?
I then restarted the computer with the XP CD in the Master CD drive and the cd was found and showed "Press any key to continue......" but this was quickly followed by "Invalid System Disk - Replace the disk and press any key".
I tried this many times but always get the same message. Can anyone who has setup S-ATA drives on ICH5R with "no RAID" and then installed a fresh copy of XP, please help, or anyone who can help with this, I would be very grateful.
Regards
Brave01Heart

Hi
Ok, I have some more information regarding the Intel ICH5R Controller and S-ATA drives.
I tried your suggestions of " Both SATA+PATA in "On-Chip IDE Config"...." and also a few others, but it made no difference and I still got "invalid disk message". Some changes like "P-ATA only" made my CDRW/DVD drives not show up during POST or in the BIOS or My Computer.
I then used the original advice I was given:
Mode: NATIVE
ATA Configuration: S-ATA Only
Keep S-ATA Enabled: YES
Keep P-ATA Enabled: YES
P-ATA Channel Selection: BOTH
Configure S-ATA as RAID: NO
but also changed "Combined Mode Option" to "S-ATA 1st Channel and the "S-ATA Ports Definition" to P0-1st. /P1-2nd. I then inserted the XP CD and restarted the computer and this time XP installation went ahead without any 'invalid disk' messages and XP was installed without problems but I have noticed a few weird things which I would like some help with please, especially Q1:
Q1: During POST, both my S-ATA drives which are on SER1 & SER2, were shown as the Third and Fourth IDE Masters and as UDMA 5. Surely this can't be correct?
I know ATA133 is UDMA 6 and the S-ATA drives are supposed to run at 150Mb/sec but I don't know if there is a standard for that speed at the moment but it should not be shown as UDMA 5 on POST and also in Device Manager? At the very least it should be UDMA 6?
Q2: In Device Manager/IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, it shows:
Primary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 5 (S-ATA 80GB Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicale
Primary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Secondary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 5 (S-ATA 120GB Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Not applicable
Secondary IDE Channel
Device 0 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 2 (LG CDRW Drive)
Device 1 Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA 2 (LG DVD Drive)
??Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller?
??Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller?
?? After installing the Intel .INF Update, these entries changed to "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers". With my two previous ATA133 drives installed in the same computer, there was only one "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers" in Device Manager, so with the S-ATA drives installed, why are there now two entries in Device Manager?
Q3: In "My Computer", the total capacity of my Seagate S-ATA 80GB drive is shown as 74.5GB (80,015,491,072 Bytes). Iknow that the CMOS value is considerably less that the purchased disk size, but where has the other 4.5GB gone?
Q4: What is the purpose of the second "Primary IDE Channel" entry in Device Manager?
Regards
Brave01Heart

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