Info on Promise 20378

Hi to all ,
i want to buy another Maxtor 6Y080P0 HD to make a raid 1 (mirroring) on Promise 20378, i want to make this to increase the reading/writing performance, but i don't know if this controller can really increase my system performance and if it use the cpu to perform this operation or it'is cpu indipendent like a scsi controller.
I hope that someone can give me more info, thanks for all and sorry for my bad english.

Yes, i have read the sticky, but i haven't found an answer to my question: "The Promise 20378 controller is or not cpu load free?" I don't know if my question is clear (my knolege of english language is poor), i want to know if the promise controller use my cpu to operate or it's indipendent like a adaptec scsi controller.
Thanks for all, bye

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On the K8T Neo-FIS2R board, can someone please tell me what the Promise 20378 equates to for Promise FastTrak drivers?
I purchased the board from newegg on "refurb" and do not have drivers. I spent a few frustrating hours yesterday trying to get Windows XP Pro to find my SATA drive. I have read over the solutions on this board, so I know I can get it to work, but I lack any drivers at all. So, if anyone can point me to both VIA and Promise drivers, I would appreciate it!
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Originally posted by emtownsend
OH! Thanks for the heads-up! I won't even consider trying that one!
Hi
You can download both Via and Promise floppies from the store site at
http://www.dapford.com/downloads/MSI/msifloppys/
cheers
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When my 865PE FIS2R RMA mobo arrives I want to use a Maxtor 120 gig hd (ATA 133) on IDE3. Looking through the manual on pg 2-20 it mentions Promise 20378 chipset and IDE3 on the same page. Can I just directly hook the hd to IDE 3 or do I have to load Promise 20378 chipset drivers from a floppy? I believe I have to select IDE 3 through the BIOS as the first boot device, is there anything else I need to do?
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Hi braveheart,
I have just purchased 2x DiamondMax Plus9 160GB SATA150 drives, I do not want them in any kind of raid, just as two large hard disks. And I am having endless problems with windows XP remaining stable and the M875P motherboard. It could be something else not quite right, like memory or graphics but my hunch is related to the hard disks. Ive ran XP before in the past no probs and never had blue screens with UNMOUNTABLE_Boot_Volumes! and even windows repair failing to scan disks! I have managed to install XP onto them and use it for say 5 hours but it has crashed now 5 times seriously and required a rebuild. Im tempted to switch to 2 non sata hard disks like Samsung SpinPoint P80 160GB UDMA133 as Im sure the problem is hard disk related. Although I will be welcome to suggestions..
There is not much out there on google about it, the first probs I saw were posted here in the important posts section, the unofficial FAQs
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/service/forum/index.php?threadid=21469&sid=
It mentions a fix in bios 1.9, but when is this coming???
I don`t think you will need to install any drivers if your not going to use it an raid formation
cheers
Brad
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DiamondMax Plus9 160GB SATA150 x 2
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Will Windows XP and Linux(Probably Mandrake or SuSE) recogonize a Western Digital 160JB HD correctly in terms of size and functionality on my Neo2 FIS2R raid EIDE connector or the other two EIDE connectors? If nobody try it, any one knows the detail support specification of Promise 20378 chipset? Thanks a lot!!!

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875P NEO - Strange problem with SATA non RAID on Promise 20378

Hello,
After replacing an IDE harddisk suddenly my S-ATA drive connected to the Promise 387 controller can not be found anymore.
When booting it says: No devices found, BIOS not installed. I got the the advice to disable S-ATA in the BIOS, but then no S-ATA drive will work ofcourse.
So here is my situation:
- MSI 875P Neo-FISR (PCB 2.0) mainboard with A6758 BIOS version
BIOS settings:
Integrated Peripherals:
- On board Promise IDE = as S-ATA
On Chip IDE configuration:
- P-ATA only
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- P-ATA channel selection = Both (if set otherwise it will not recognize the second IDE
controller, strange!)
- S-ATA ports defintion: P0-4th/ P1-3rd (standard setting)
- Config as RAID = NO
Also I have the Promise 1.0.1.29 drivers installed within XP, I know that MSI says 378_55 is the latest, but when installing a clean XP these drivers did not work at all, so I installed the old ones.Within XP it is recognized btw as being a "WinXP Promise SATA378 IDE controller"
What I am wondering now is:
Is it true the Promise controll controls the 3rd IDE controller as well as the S-ATA HDD? And if so can someone please tell what would be the correct settings in the BIOS when having 2 IDE HDD's connnected to the third IDE controller and 1 S-ATA disk on the Promise controller? Because the strange thing only 1 IDE HDD is recognized by XP, the other IDE HDD and S-ATA not.
Ok, I hope I was a little bit clear, I'm really desperate , so I hope you can help me out !!

Not sure what the problem is.
Like I said, all the settings in Integrated Peripherals>>On-Chip IDE Config should only affect the Intel controller(IDE1&2,Serial1&2)
The only interaction you have with the Promise controller(IDE3,Serial3&4) is through Integrated Peripherals>>Promise Controller(As SATA, As Raid, Disabled). You can also select a drive connected to the Promise as a boot device from Bios>>Advanced Features>>Boot Device Select.
I would take a step back and start over a little more slowly.
My assumption so far is that you have WinXP installed on a drive on the Intel controller and that it is booting/functioning properly.
You are trying to install 2 IDE and 1 SATA drives on the Promise controller.
1- In Device Manager, right-click on the Promise 378 controller and select uninstall. If you know for sure that the "Raid Consolel SCSI Processor Device" is from a driver you installed for the Promise controller, uninstall that too. Otherwise leave it alone.
2- Shutdown/Unplug power and disconnect all 3 drives from the Promise controller.
3- Plugin power/Boot to the Bios and set the Promise controller to "disabled". Also make sure Intel "On-Chip IDE Config" menu "Config SATA As Raid" option is set to "NO"
4- Save and reboot to WinXP. There should be no Bios errors and the Promise entries in Device Manager should be gone.
5- Shutdown/Unplug Power and reconnect 1 drive(the SATA to Serial3 for simplicity) Power + data cables!
6- Plugin power/boot to Bios and set Promise controller to "As SATA"
7- Save and reboot. You should see the drive name briefly after the initial post screen if you've disabled the MSI splash screen.
8- WinXP should say something about finding a new SCSI device. If not just see if it's in Device manager and right-click>>"Install Drivers" and point it to the driver folder from before and install the "WinXP Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE Controller Driver". Not the Fastrack ones for raid.
9- Now after another reboot if the SATA drive isn't visible from Windows Explorer, try the diskmgmt.msc utility again.
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Promise 20378 sata raid ide controller: this device doesn't start

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Quote from: Fredrik Åsenius on 14-November-07, 05:57:51
Hello!
Is SATA/RAID enabled in BIOS?
Have you hit F6 during Windows installation, for allowing Windows Set-up to locate the drivers?
If SATA/RAID was disabled, it wouldn't even appear in Device Manager
If the RAID is secondary storage, then hitting F6 won't acheive anything as Windows is already installed
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875p neo Promise chip

I'm running RAID 1 on the Promise 20378 chipset. It blue screened on me. Now it won't boot. I get a message which says drive 1 is disconnected or disabled.
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K8T MS 6702 V 1.0 + Seagate Barracuda SATA II + Windows 7

Hello,
Im new on this forum! Im having serious trouble getting my system set up. I have a K8T Neo MS 6702 V 1.0 mobo and right now im trying to install windows 7 on my new hard drive. the hard drive is a Seagate barracuda 7200 SATA 2. when installing windows 7 I get asked to deliver drivers for the new hard drive. when I put in a CD-rom with drivers or a Floppy, I am able to load the drivers and view the partition on the hard drive. So om thinking windows must be able to install. when I roll through the installation it has to reboot several times. the first reboot works out fine, but the second one doesn't go all that well. is boots up to the splash screen. when I try safe mode I can see it loading windows up to a file called: classpnp.sys. Now I have read that this mobo does not work with SATA 2, but then you should be able to jumper the drive to SATA 1. The thing is , there is no way I can use jumpers on this drive. I will give a list of my system specs now.
AMD Athlon 64 (socket 754)
K8T Neo MS-6702 ATX V1.0
VIA k8T800 chipset
VIA VT8237 chipset
Promise 20378 on board
Seagate barracuda SATA 2 750 Gb
I have tried going into the recovery mode of windows 7 with the installation DVD but when I have it to check out my boot problems it comes back with an error saying that there is no hard drive installed. Im wondering if this has to do with the mobo or the harddrive. I havn't updated the bios because I'm affraid I mess up the bios.
If you guys need any more info ill try and find out!
I hope someone can help me out here.

I don't really know but you can read this and see if it does you any good.
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/19163-fasttrak-376-378-windows-7-driver-help.html

Raid Options on 865PE Neo2 Fis2r

Hey Guys, Here is my setup.
2 X WD74 Raptors on SATA 1 & 2 ICH5R
2 X WD250 PATA on IDE 3 Promise 20378
Question is:
Can I add a third array using the Promise 20378 SATA 3 & 4 connectors? I.E.
2 X WD74 Raptors on SATA 1 & 2 ICH5R
2 X WD250 PATA on IDE 3 Promise 20378
2 X WD250 SATA on SATA 3 & 4 Promise 20378
(Total of 3 Arrays)
or
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2 X WD74 Raptors on SATA 1 & 2
4 X WD250, 2 PATA on IDE 3 & 2 WD250 SATA on SATA 3 & 4
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Server Setup advice for a video production house

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Well if your looking for performance. You could get a Promise VTrak E-Class RAID with 32TB of storage, later on you can add more chassis to the raid for more storage space. The raid can be expanded up to 160TB. (80 drive bays, each drive 2 TB)
Using fiber you could attach the raid to an xServer or Mac Pro (running mac os x server). You'll probable want at least 8 or 16 GB of ram on the server.
The server can run a copy of final cut server. Witch makes it easer to work as a group. Mac OS X server, when properly configured, can also be used to create a VPN between both locations.
Final Cut Server will let editors check in/out specific parts of the documentaries. So the project lives on the server; instead of scattered over every ones computers. Part of this is you can pull down thumb nails versions of the video to work off of. Only when you do the final render do you download the HD version of the video.
If you want even better performance on the editing stations. you could also upgrade to Mac Pros. Mac Pros have upgrade slots witch you can use to add fiber networking. You could also use the upgrade slots to add a black magic real time HD capture card.
Or if you want to keep the imacs. you might want to hook the server to a switch by fiber, and have the imacs connected to the same switch by 1000-T
If you call apple i'm sure they'd be happy to help you figure this all out.
for info on Promise: http://www.promise.com/apple/
for mor info on final cut server: http://www.apple.com/finalcutserver/

MSI-875P-FIS2R

"BUMP"
Hi
WOW! I have just purchased the MSI 875P Neo and after reading through the many, many problem posts regarding this motherboard on this board, I'm beginning to wonder if I've made the right choice? Just read one from 'ferres' saying that he may have got an 875P from an earlier batch and this might be causing his problems. How can we tell if I have a recent build of the board?
I'm just getting my related hardware together (i.e. hard drives, cd-rom, display cards etc) so I have not set up the mobo yet but I would like some help with installing the drives using PATA and, or SATA.
Ok, having read the manuals and seen, apart from the normal dual ultra DMA 66/100 controllers integrated in the Intel ICH6/ICH5R chipset (IDE 1 & 2), there are also two integrated SATA/SATA RAID 150 ports (SER1 & SER2) in this chipset.
Also, the board has the Promise 20378 onboard controller with IDE 3 for connection two hard drives at up to modes UDMA 133. It also has two SATA/SATA RAID connectors (SER3 & SER4).
Now, I don't want to have any RAID Disk Arrays at this point because if I can get 133MB/Sec or 150MB/Sec without RAID (not on IDE 1 & 2 of course), then I simply want to connect my ATA133 Maxtor hard drives normally on IDE 1 & 2 @ UDMA 100, or on SER1 & SER2, or with the "As S-ATA" enabled for the Promise 20378 in the BIOS, connected to IDE 3 as Master & Slave, which will give me ATA133.
There is also the fourth option of using SER3 & SER4 on the Promise controller.
The problem is that my Maxtor drives are not SATA drivers and I know that you can get SERIAL conversion kits that will allow me to use my drives as SATA drives and achieve 150MB/Sec but I have not found out where I can purchase them so (if anyone has a link in the UK I would be grateful),I would be happy with 133MB/Sec for the moment.
Q: Given this information, can anyone who has already configured their 875P successfully using any of the options given above, I would appreciate details of exactly how it was done. I.e. What connections did you use and which is best:
IDE 1 (For hard drives set to Master & Slave @ ATA100)
IDE 2 (For CD-RW/DVD Drives)
SER1 & SER2 (With Serial conversion kit - not sure about ATA 133 drive jumper settings when using PATA drives on SATA ports)
IDE 3 (Master & Slave)
SER3 & SER4 (Again with Serial converstion kit)
Q: Also, given the above options and with regards to SATA/PATA, what BIOS settings did you enable/disable for best perfomance?
Q: I intend to have my CD-RW/DVD drives on IDE 2 so, if using anything other that IDE 1 for my hard drives, does IDE 1 have to have any devices on it for the system to work correctly or can it be disabled (bearing in mind the boot sequence).
At present, I have WinXP Per installed as Master on IDE 1 in another computer and also have a Maxtor 80GB ATA133 as slave on IDE 1, so I will need to transfer the drives to my newly built pc once I have enough information and I would assume that, after first enabling the appropriate options with regard to SATA/Promise 20378 and others, it's best to boot to the CD and fresh install the O/S ?
One last question regarding the USB ports, the manual states that we can have total of 8 with 6 at the rear of the box and two at the front, or 4 at the rear and 4 at the front. Well there are already 6 on the back I/O plate (4 at the top under the mouse/keyboard and two next to the LAN at the bottom)- how can we only have four at the rear when there are already 6 there? My case also has two at the front and I also have D-Bracket 2 Connector which when connected to JLED1 and JUSB2 gives another 2 USB ports and when I connect the cabling from my front case USB ports to JUSB3, then I have another 2 USB ports making 10 in total?
I have many other questions regarding the 875P but I will wait for these answers before asking anymore.
Regards
Brave01Heart

During boot up it will say what bios version you have. If you got version 1.0 best to get 1.5 and up.
Serial ata should be in native mode, legacy mode will lose 1 of the ide ports.
Some of my previous issues may have been attributed to Win2k which seem to require SP 4 to run properly in hyper threading set ups.
Ferres

If i lose the drivers for windows detect my serial ata hd during installation?

SATA (serial ATA), FC-AL (fibre-channel-arbitrated loop), and SCSI host bus adapters may require additional drivers provided by the HBA (Host Bus Adapter) manufacturer to be installed during setup. I want to know if there is a web site where i can download those drivers. I have promise 20378 on-board controler. I didn't lose the floppy containing the drivers, but is too far away from where i am! And I need to format my hd and install windows. If anyone knows where I found those drivers, plz help me!
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msi 875p neo series
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ati 9800pro 128mb
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Series 2 board drivers:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=554&kind=1

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Anyone know how to get Verizon to revert back from FIOS to standard copper service? I have tried for 2 months and customer service either processes incorrect info or promises to fulfill request, but nothing has been done. Last cust. service person I talked with told me "couldn't be done in my area." Either they are not trained properly or I'm the victim of a scam. I cannot have a phone that doesn't operate in a power failure, so short of hiring an attorney and getting a doctor's statement, I'm really at a lost where to turn. Thank you.

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HELP! WinXP Clean Install Problems

I want to reformat my computer for the new school quarter but i run a raid configuration with my NEO2 6728 built in promise controller. Everything works fine but i forgot to bring my driver diskette to be used in the F6 portion of the WINXP intallation. I also dont have the driver cd that came with the motherboard (its with the promise driver diskette). If anyone could tell me how to create my own diskette or download the files somewhere, I would appreciate it.
Its the Promise 20378 S-ATA RAID/Ultra Drivers that come bundled with the neo2
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awww....how nice, they even added a instruction file after you unpak the exe:
If you lost your Driver Disk labeled as "Promise 376/378 Driver"
This file will teach you how to make one Driver Disk
First please perpare one formatted 1.44M Floppy
Then please copy necessary driver from MSI Driver CD
- Driver for Win98/ME
Please refer to Win98-ME.txt
Please Copy CDROM:\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\Win98-ME\ folder
- Driver for Win2000
Please copy CDROM:\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\Win2000\ folder
    \IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\fasttx2k file
\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\ULSATA file
     \IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\txtsetup.oem file
- Driver for WinXP
Please copy CDROM:\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\WinXP\ folder
    \IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\fasttx2k file
\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\ULSATA file
     \IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\txtsetup.oem file
- Driver for Win2003
Please refer to WS2003.txt
Copy CDROM:\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\Win2003\ folder
\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\fasttx2k file
\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\ULSATA file
\IDE\Promise\S-ATA\PDC20378\Driver\txtsetup.oem file

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