Promise SATA problems?

I'musing the onboard promise SATA controller for my 160Gb storage drive. As of last night, I went to start my machine up and it makes it to the promise controller's bios screen and is detecting.............................. ..........forever, then It finaly times out and I get this error: "Bios couldn't detect your setup, Check your system again". It did this 4 or 5 times before I changed to the 2nd SATA connector then it booted up. During this time I couldn't get the setup prompt in the POST screen to go to -->GO. Do you think the promise controller could just take a crap like that?
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This happens regaurdless of which SATA connector the drive is on. I'm Starting to think it's the HDD taking a crap. Almost like it's not seeing the drive info but it knows something is connected.

I've been messing with it for a while and it seems to be my USB dev's. After I remove all of them it work everytime. Makes sense, I'v been hearing the tone you get when you connect a USB dev intermittly. I have a viewsonic usb keyboard, logitech wireless optical mouse, and epson photo R300 printer. Any known issues with these devs. I have a feeling it could be my mouse, I've noticed it studdering a lot lately, much like the battery is about dead. I have ps2 adapters, do you think they may work? I'll update later, there is much partying to be done.

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Promise SATA problem

Thanks to both of you. I've tried hitting ctrl-F but nothing appears. I can get into the Amibios no problem and have set the Promise controller to SATA only.
After reading what you've both said let me say what my set up is. I have an 80Gb Maxtor ATA drive on IDE1 and two DVD drives on IDE2. I have two 160Gb SATA drives on the ICH5 Southbridge controller. I have an internal zip drive on IDE3. I have nothing on the Promise SATA controllers but will do one day, I hope. I can see everything but the zip drive.
Can I only get into ctrl-F if there is something attached to the Promise SATA controllers?
I have to tell you I'm a bit clueless about RAID but don't think I need it. I'll check up on it later but right now I just need a working system.
Thanks.

Just did a compleate format and reinstall of my windows drive, wanted to start over. I was having a few problems with other software, and I wanted to to work with a clean slate.
Ok, I have 5 SATA drives all plugged into my motherboard. 4 are in the AMD SB600 sockets, each running in IDE mode. I have one more drive, formated, that I want to install in one of the 2 remaining Promise sockets,.
The drivers for the Promise are currently uninstalled, and the 5th drive is not seen because of it. The only drivers availible on the K9A2 PLAT driver page are for RAID. Previously, I have tried to install these drivers, and then configure the drive in the socket to run as IDE, but with no luck.
My problem boils down to, 'can I install any drives into these sockets as IDE', 'do I need drivers to get ide to work', 'where can I find these drivers', 'do these drivers work for vista x64 (OS is not running from this socket)'.
Sorry for the ranting, it has been a bad day for me.

SATA Problems (Money to anyone that helps!)

Ok ladies and gents! I will seriously PayPal some cash to the person that helps me solve this one!
Just got myself a new setup....
MSI K7N2-ILSR Motherboard
AMD XP Barton 3200
512MB Kingson Hyper-X DDR 3200
Samsung 120GB SATA 133 HDD
Thermaltake Subzero 4G Peltier Cooling System
Wavemaster Aluminium Case
The problem is this....
If i plug in the SATA HDD into the SATA-0 motherboard connector and boot up the PC, when it gets to the Promise bios where it should be asking me to do a control-f to set up an array, the PC just hangs. Its just stuck on that screen and it does nothing!
I have no idea why this might be, thought it might be a power issue (have a 350W PSU, but it was cheap - £25) and it didnt have a SATA power connector so I had to use an adapter. Could this be it????
I have had to temporarily plug in an IDE 20GB thing and install XP on that - and the system works fine....its just this SATA problem.
So - anyone if anyone can spare some time to sort this problem out it would be much appreciated! I know theres probably loads of posts like this - but I can be bothered to trawl through trying everything!
Help Meeeeee!

Just bought k7N2-Delta board, not the G one. Have two SATA 120GB of differing brands and NONE would ever detect one SER1 on the board. No problem if you want to only use one drive, plug it into SER2, but if you want to use 2, no go. It was funny though because i could boot of SER2, stick a drive on SER1, FAstrack would not detect it but windows would, VERY STRANGE!!!!.
Took your advice and flashed to lumberjacks modded bios and WHALLAH, can see drives on both SATA connectors.
So board is good but MSI bios upgrade support is somewhat c#$p. BTW this board rocks.
Modded bios is much more stable too than the MSI one, amazing really because I was totally suspect on modded bioses b4, but now understand why people do it.
CMON MSI pick up your act, get the promise bios into this board that is as good or better than lumberjacks sterling effort. employ him or something you fools.
ANYWAY, happy days because now my board rocks and is the heart of a gaming weapon
Athlon XP 3200
2 * 1GB Geil PC3500 DDR 433 (Running dual)
2 * 120GB SATA drives (Samsung and Seagate) BTW Samsung is better
Gigabyte Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Antec 550W PSU
blah blah blah

K8N Neo2 Plat IDE and SATA problems

Last night I was able to install XP onto a Raid 0 set up with 2x36 GB Raptors. (These were on Sata3/4 as I had heard about oc problems with the other Sata ports). No other drives were installed. After installing XP I decided to shut down and add a 40 gb IDE drive that had several things I needed (like programs!) and also installed another Sata drive, this time it was on Sata 2.
(I did discover that the system will not boot if there are drives on IDE2 (optical drives) while IDE1 is empty... so moved the optical drives to IDE1)
After installing the two extra drives I booted up. Fine. But when I went to change a display setting, got BSOD.
So went back and tried again to setup the Raid 0 and install XP. Even without the extra drives, no luck.
After third attempt, I gave up on Raid and just installed XP onto one of the Raptors that was on either Sata 3 or 4. No other HD's installed. It worked.
Then went back and tried to stick that 40gb IDE in and the 80gb Sata.
Ack! No boot and got a hal.dll error. Googled that and I guess it has some sort of virus or whatever. Figures. Okay. Disconnect both the 40 and 80 and it boots.
This time tried just with the SATA 80 (in addition to boot drives). No luck. Get an error saying that it can't find boot drive or something like that.
Next tried to move the Sata cables around, putting the true boot drive onto Sata1. Of course it didn't work and NOW (after putting the cables back the way they were for the boot drive i.e. Sata3/4 (not sure which) the system will not boot at all giving the "no system disk" error.
If I had hair to pull out it would be gone.
When looking into the BIOS I see that the 2 36gb Rap's are on IDE channel 5 and 6.
I don't know what BIOS I am running.
Is there some sort of "priority" that XP assigns to various IDE channels? Sata ports? At this point I could care less about overclocking, so am thinking of putting the 2 36gb Rap's on Sata 1/2 and starting from scratch trying to install XP on Raid 0 (yes, I installed the Raid drivers from a floppy). Shouldn't that work? I might end up just using the 80 gb SATA drive as the boot drive and not using the Raptors.
Someone please save me!

Quote from: meditek on 12-March-06, 02:30:42
Be interested how stable your raid setup stays? See my post https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=94536.new#new
Been driving me crazy. System stays stable, now I've ditched raid, as long as the other Raptor doesn't have XP on it. It seemed that XP was seeing two disks instead of one at close down when I had raid installed and writing to just one - very weird - which blew the array. Never had these problems with Promise Sata Raid. I suspect, like many others, that NV have a driver problem.
You know... you didn't really HAVE to share this info with me!!
Let's hope it stays stable. If not, then I will get a different Raid controller.
Along with backing up my data on that array as soon as I can!

Promise SATA controller in XP 64

Hello all,
I have recently installed XP Pro 64. My problem involves the Promise SATA controller. I installed the Promise & Via XP 64 drivers at installation. However, the Promise controller and SATA drive did not appear during installation and the drive is missing in the operating system. All is fine with the VIA controller. The Promise controller appears in the device manager but the hard drive is nowhere to be found. All works fine in XP 32. I’ve been reading the online forums (including MSI’s) and have seen similar problems. Just wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem and has found a work-around? Any input would be deeply appreciated.

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Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
How are your hard disks configured, and your CD/DVD etc?
I've litary tried every possible combination. The problem remains even with no disks or CD/DVD drives installed on the Fasttrak controller or IDE 1/2. Sometimes the controller is detected, sometimes not.
I should point out that if the controller is detected it always find my HDD who's connected to it and it works fine in Windows. But if it's not detected Windows will find a new hardware and try to install drivers to it, but it won't work cause the hardware is reporting an error and Windows will ofcourse not find a disk....
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What operative system do you have? On a quick search I found mostly linux related problems, though I was not too thorough.
I have Windows XP, but I don't think it matters what OS i'm running.
On the searched I've done Im only finding Linux and compability related problems...
I've had this problem for over 6 months now and I'm getting a BIT tired the shitty controller....

Howto: PROMISE/SATA on Linux!

Hello Linux users, want to get your PROMISE SATA Disk controller working on Linux?
There are two options, option two it proberly best for beginners/newbes!
Option One: Patch the kernel (Tested on 2.4.23)
Download this file: http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz
Login as su - (root)
Copy or move it to:
/usr/src/
And Untar with:
tar fzxv pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz
then you will have pdc-ultra.patch in /usr/src/
Then patch your kernel:
cat pdc-ultra.patch | patch -p0 -N
Then you will get patching file ... blah blah...
patching file linux-2.4.23/drivers/scsi/Makefile
More......
When done, just goto: /usr/src/linux , configure your kernel.
Make sure SCSI Disk support , SCSI Generic support is Built-in. under SCSI Support.
Then you will find the Promise SATA Driver under SCSI Low level drivers, make it a Module or Built-in.
Then install the kernel and modules, reboot.
Login as yourself, then su - (root)
Now to test if it works:
cat /proc/scsi/pdc-ultra/*
If you get something like this:
PROMISE SATA150 Series Linux Driver v1.00.0.10
Adapter1 - SATA 378 [ IRQ17 ]
Drive -
3 : WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0 Channel2/Master 120034MB UDMA5
(Your drive should be listed here)
Then it woks, congrats!
And you'll find your drive under /dev/sda (Most likely)
fdisk /dev/sda and the press "p"+"enter" to print partitons if you have any!
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
Option two: Build a kernel module from the source.
Note!
You must build a kernel with scsi support first, as above without the Promis Drivers, as we are not patchig the kernel.
Then download this file:
http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/1_SATALINUXSRC1.00.0.8.zip
Copy or move it to /tmp/
unzip 1_SATALINUXSRC1.00.0.8.zip
then cd ultra-1.0.8/
Then run following:
make clean
make
make install
This should build and install a kernel module.
Then run:
insmod pdc-ultra (PC may "stop responding" a few sec then return to normal)
Now to test if it works:
cat /proc/scsi/pdc-ultra/*
If you get something like this:
PROMISE SATA150 Series Linux Driver v1.00.0.10
Adapter1 - SATA 378 [ IRQ17 ]
Drive -
3 : WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0 Channel2/Master 120034MB UDMA5
(Your drive should be listed here)
Then it woks, congrats!
And you'll find your drive under /dev/sda (Most likely)
fdisk /dev/sda and the press "p"+"enter" to print partitons if you have any!
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
This was made in the hope of helping others, so don't yell at me if you can't get it to work. Ask me a Question instead and I will try to help you as the best I can. :hypecrite:
Cheers,
Kevin
-- Gentoo Linux roxx!

Hi !
Check with these pdf's
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2498bf90-0201-0010-4884-83568752a857
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6945da7d-0c01-0010-1792-dd7b5d87235c
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d149ec34-0d01-0010-4791-db4f1d864576
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/607ebbd5-6555-2a10-e285-c2cbec4ebafd
for these JARs msbase.jar, mssqlserver.jar, msutil.jar Check these pdf's
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70ffd890-0201-0010-708f-d5dad2dfcf3a
Find this doc for JDBC drivers-https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3867a582-0401-0010-6cbf-9644e49f1a10
(msbase.jar, mssqlserver.jar, msutil.jar).
Driver:
com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
Connection for MS SQL Server:
jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://<server>:1433;databaseName=<dbname>
If you are using the new SQL Server 2005 jdbc driver (sqljdbc.jar). Setup is basically the same, except the driver is now:
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
And the URL is slightly different as well:
jdbc:sqlserver://host:1433;DatabaseName=name
Check This thread discuss the same for these jars
MS SQL Server jdbc Driver installation on XI
how to connect sql server through WAS
Thanks!!

Practical HDD Configuration on K7N2's Promise SATA and NV IDE3

Folks,
There are lots of good fragments on the board about use of IDE3, but not much on total layout of disks for modestly disk intensive applications. Without going to server-type SCSI320 controllers and super-fast drives, here are some questions ---
1a. I'm going to assume until some wise person disuades me, that IDE will just saturate too quickly with good drives.
1b. With the K7N2 architecture, I'm guessing that the Promise chip will pump data on the bus and become less saturated than IDE. Do we know this for sure?
2a. I come from the high end unix world before the days of gigantic storage devices. Back in the day it is an article of faith that disk striping almost always yielded better results.
I'm beginning to wonder about that for non-database PC applications for several reasons. An article that looks at queue depth also reveals that as you add striped drives to an SATA controller, performance may degrade. With just the Promise chip this is probably nit-picking, as were only going to stripe 2 drives. Still one wonders. Here's the paper --
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200406/20040625TCQ_1.html
2b. Is it possible to run the Promise chip as JBOD? This could be really interesting. Can the IDE3 drive run alone, outside the Promise array?
AND FINALLY...
3a. On this board there are many stories of woe about using the NV IDE3, and good bits of info, but nothing complete. How do you build and manage it?? I don't mean ONE drive in the system, but TWO on Promise SATA and one on IDE3.
3b. Also, since it's controlled by NV, is there reason to believe that data will pump through more quickly than with the standard IDE bus (IDE1 and IDE2)??
This should be interesting...
Cheers, u.
Please PM me if you like.

Sorry chaps!
For current sytem see sig below.
Ta, Britt
IRQ 0   System timer   OK
IRQ 1   Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard   OK
IRQ 3   Communications Port (COM2)   OK
IRQ 5   NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management   OK
IRQ 6   Standard floppy disk controller   OK
IRQ 8   System CMOS/real time clock   OK
IRQ 9   Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System   OK
IRQ 12   PS/2 Compatible Mouse   OK
IRQ 13   Numeric data processor   OK
IRQ 14   Primary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 15   Secondary IDE Channel   OK
IRQ 18   WinXP Promise FastTrak 376/378 (tm) Controller   OK
IRQ 19   SupraExpress 56i   OK
IRQ 19   MSI MS-StarForce GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X)   OK
IRQ 20   Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 20   NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface   OK
IRQ 21   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 22   Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller   OK
IRQ 22   NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby(R) Digital)   OK

REALLY odd SATA problem -- bet you can't fix this

So, I go to a LAN party on Tuesday night.
I leave my computer downloading stuff from newsgroups and I come back to find everyting packed up for me nice and neatly. I asked if my computer stayed on through the entire time I was gone and my friend told me that someone did unplug the main power before the downloads finished -- but I thought that wouldn't be a problem, just an inconvienence.
I get home and set everything up and guess what? It doesn't boot.
So I fiddle around with it and I just end up reformatting my boot drive (SATA raptor). I had to unplug all the other hard drives to let XP reformat the hard drive -- that was very odd in my opinion, it would just say "Windows XP cannont install to this drive. Go back to the formatting screen and format the drive." But the odd thing is that it wouldn't format it to anything other than RAW unless I unplugged my other two drives (one IDE one SATA #2)
After the reformat I booted correctly with the drives still unattached. I then proceded to logically plug the IDE and SATA cables into their slots. Windows no longer boots. Ok, so then I try to isolate the problem. I unplug the other SATA drive (SATA #2 -- 300 GB maxtor) and it boots. Problem found.
I was downloading the items off of newsgroups onto that drive when it was unplugged. My ONLY guess is that there is a data error on the drive that needs to be repaired but I cannot even run a disk check. the XP disk wont check it beacuse the 300GB doesn't have an XP installation so the recovery console is useless. I have run out of options. I have tried using the promise controller too and it wont even "start" correctly in windows. I attribute this to the same problem.
REFORMATTING THE DRIVE IS NOT AN OPTION!!!! I have about 250 GIGS of extremly important data that cannot be lost!!!!
I will update my system specifications immediately and my IDE configuration to follow.
(Channel -#- Controller - Media Type)
IDE-1- ICH5R - DVD ROM
IDE-2- ICH5R - 160 GB Seagate
SATA-1- ICH5R - 36GB WD Raptor
SATA-2- ICH5R - 300GB Maxtor 16MB cache
SATA-3- Promise - Empty
SATA-4- Promise - Empty

Wow Ruckus17 that is strange. I have done unbeliveable things with my Maxtors. You are saying even as a extra drive you cannot access it even to run scandisk..I do that all the time on my sata 3 and 4..they don't have a OS they only known for storage. I drag and drop my pics on one and all my games are on the other.. I am almost sure this is a Drive problem. and I understand you want to Save the info.. even though you said that the drive will not format. One of my drives done the same thing and all I did was turnon the computer this was the first 3 days after installing. the new drive in Raid 0. after getting the new drive I tried to install the OS again but I had allready setup my max. ATA to the promise yellow connector with XP and I could not format for Raid 0 with a OS Even trying to fake it out by unplugging the OS drive. then it could not find the other 2 drives. maybe you could try putting the drive in another computer. I was told this would never work due to configuration problems the Pc's were totally different but booted with no problems... I had to RMA my drive, It would cost you a fortune to have the Data rescued on a 300 Gig drive...

Error detecting promise sata controller on kt4 ultra

Hello,
I've searched the forum and "the rest" of the internet without finding a solution to my problem.
The problem is: Normally when you boot the kt4-ultra you will have a message saying "FastTrack 376(tm) Bios version 1.00.0.18(c)2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc." and then either No drive attached to FastTrack Controller, The BIOS is not installed or information about your HDD configuration.
In my case sometimes without any reasonable explaination my computer won't detect the promise fasttrak controller AT ALL! It just jumps right over it, as it didn't excists. This is very strange since it's enabled in the BÌOS settings and it could be detected at the next reboot, or in many cases it wont be detected again for several days
As far as I can see it has nothing to do with the harddrives connected to it, as it happens anyway either with a SATA disk connected, IDE disk or no disks at all....
If anyone could help me out with this problem I'll be very gratefull!

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Originally posted by Fredrik Åsenius
How are your hard disks configured, and your CD/DVD etc?
I've litary tried every possible combination. The problem remains even with no disks or CD/DVD drives installed on the Fasttrak controller or IDE 1/2. Sometimes the controller is detected, sometimes not.
I should point out that if the controller is detected it always find my HDD who's connected to it and it works fine in Windows. But if it's not detected Windows will find a new hardware and try to install drivers to it, but it won't work cause the hardware is reporting an error and Windows will ofcourse not find a disk....
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What operative system do you have? On a quick search I found mostly linux related problems, though I was not too thorough.
I have Windows XP, but I don't think it matters what OS i'm running.
On the searched I've done Im only finding Linux and compability related problems...
I've had this problem for over 6 months now and I'm getting a BIT tired the shitty controller....

Urgent - No 64bit Promise SATA driver (not RAID)

I'd already installed XP64 on an old PATA drive without problems, so today I decided to use the new VIA SATA drive to dual-boot it off my SATA drive, along with my main XP32 installation. Unfortunately, although it found the VIA driver at F6 and got to the GUI install it locked solid at Devices. Worse than that it's totally screwed all the boot files so I now can't get to anything on either the SATA or PATA drives, and blue screen on any attempt to boot either drive. That's 4 OS installs gone.
I moved the SATA over to the Promise controller thinking I'd seen 64bit Promise drivers for weeks, but it seems these are only RAID drivers and are called "Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller". Needless to say they don't find a single SATA drive. What I need would be the driver called "Promise SATA378 (tm) Controller" but I can't find it. Have Promise really released a RAID driver but no single SATA driver for the same controller???
If I don't find it I guess I'm looking at 4 days spent formatting and reinstalling.

Hi Jocko
OK, I'll try explain (and remember!)
First I installed XP32 on the lone SATA drive. No problem as it was the only drive.
Then I added an old PATA drive, which BIOS and Windows Setup always sees as Disk 0 and the SATA as Disk 1.
I then installed XP32 onto the PATA drive. No problem, I think it was because Windows saw it as Disk 0 as it put the MBR in the right place.
I then put Server64 and XP64 on the PATA drive to test them (leaving by day-to-day install safe on the SATA drive. Again, no problems, it updated the MBR correctly to let me multiboot between the 3 OSes on the PATA drive.
I then tried to add an install of XP64 to the SATA drive, but because I left the PATA drive connected, Windows setup updated the MBR of the PATA drive instead. On subsequent reboot it failed because it was pointing to the wrong drive (I think). So I had half an install on the SATA drive, and a boot.ini on the PATA which pointed to a non-existent half installation. Even with BIOS listing the SATA drive as the boot device, each time the PC restarted it tried to carry on the installation and of course failed.
That's when I had to refer to my book on Recovery Console...
So it seems that if multiple drives are installed, it will update the MBR on the lowest ID drive, which is not necessarily the drive the installation is actually going on to! I think!

Promise RAID problems

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone on the list had problems with the Promise RAID.
My system is a 875P Neo. The two SATA drives are Seagate ST2380023AS. The system shas been wrking fone for about a month than troubles started. My system is updated to all the latest patches WinXP and MSI wise as well.
The system keep corrupting itself. When rebooting WinXP goes into a repair mode and run chkdsk. After in installing PAM 4.0 and enabled the logging I see these messages popping up in the event viewer:
Source: fasttx2k
event ID: 9
Desc: The device \device\scsi\fasttx2k1 did not respond within the the timeout period.
I had to recover WinXP a few times now and I can't keep working with the system this way and wondering when it is going to corrupt some files what I have not backed up yet.
I can't find any answers on Promise's website or here.
Any help appreciated,
--Laszlo--

Thanks for your help. I think my config is more simple than yours. I only have WinXp on this system on the Promise controller. I have the two drives in a stripe configuration, RAID 0 with 2x80GB drives. Same manufacture same BIOS on them.
I am not using the Intel SATA controller. The only device is a CD drive there.
What can I configure on the RAID controller? The only option I saw is for cache. Write Through or Write Back. Mine is set to the default of Write Back.
How could I verify that the drives individualy performing well? Is there any utility from MSI or Promise allow me to do that? What version of the Promise driver are you using and what is your BIOS version? I have the latest available from MSI which is 1.00.1.29 and my system BIOS is 1.9.
Thanks,

K7N2 Delta Sata problem

I know this has been posted plenty of times before but the fixes for those do not seem to be working.
Im running a K7N2 Delta ILSR and have bought myself a Hitachi T7K250 250GB sata2 drive but am having real problems installing it.
I want to run my trusty Win2K
I have done the CTRL - F in bios thing and set my drive as a striped raid, after which i reset and the post states i have a functional drive.
So i boot from my Win2K CD and hit F6 when prompted to do so and insert my driver floppy, i install both the Raid and Storage drivers but when i get to the actual Windows set up it states it cant find a hard disk.
I have tried the SATA drivers from the MSI website, and NVIDIA and am wondering if the promise drivers would be more sucessful.
Does anyone else have any suggestion of what to do next?

I have created and also replied to several posts on a very similar issue. The Delta2 version will NOT work with some SATA II drives. I have found NO fix for this and I have spent a lot of hours on it.
As Stu points out, the two boards have different controller chipsets, but I would guess them to have the same problem. Also, my experience is with Maxtor brand drives. Different products, but likely the same issue.
Try a SATA I drive to test. My experience with jumpering a SATAII drive into SATAI mode resulted in total failure.

MSI KT4ULTRA-SR SATA Problem

Ok, I spent most of yesterday fighting with this, called MSI Tech (no call back yet) so I'll try here. I just recieved my 200G Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA drive today and tried to install it. Needless to say, I failed miserably. The option in the bios for enabling the SATA RAID kept appearing and disapearing. So I tried reverting back to Bios v1.3 (was using 1.4) and that didn't help. Tried removing all PCI cards except for my Radeon 9700 PRO and that didn't help. The few times I did get it to enable, no Raid Bios posted to get in via CRTL-F. On the final post screen prior to windows boot I did see it get assigned an IRQ but once in Windows XP SP2, no new device was found. I'm beginning to think this is a Motherboard issue and possibly my Promise controller or bios is being flakey. Is there any way to update the Promise Bios on the KT4ULTRA-SR or is it part of the main bios?
System Specs:
Athlon XP-M 2400+
512MB Crucial PC2700
IBM 120G (Master IDE 0)
Seagate 10G (Slave IDE 0)
Liteon 16x DVD (Master IDE 1)
Plextor DVD+-R (Slave IDE 1)
Seagate 200G 7200.7 (SATA 0/1)
Radeon 9700PRO
MSI TV@nywhere Master
Adaptec 2940UW
ASOUND 4 Port PCI SWITCH (AMDTEK chip, Tried replacing also with Linksys 10/100 PCI nic)
Any help would be appreciated.

Well,
First, you need to reread my post.
Second, I have a 475W Thermaltake Butterfly PS so I have plenty of power.
Third, I already know I have to create a single drive array, but the problem is I cann't. The option for enabling SATA RAID in the bios is Missing (Once in a while it may show up). When it does fiinally show up and I'm able to enable it, I never get the Promise Bios screen except maybe for a couple times. I've rebooted this machine over 100 times... I've tried removing and reseating the Ram, disconecting the ATX Power and reconnecting, Removing all PCI cards, reflashing the bios with still the same results.

K6 Delta Promise controller problem

I have a little configuration there:
PSU: 450W
MSI KT6 Delta-FIS2R
512MB DDR400 (CL3) Memory (not in compatibility list)
Athlon XP2600+
VGA Club3D MX440 64MB
CDRW/DVD attached in VIA PATA (Cyberdrive 32x12x48, Toshiba 16x48)
1 x 36GB SATA WD Raptor attached in VIA SATA controller
2 x 160GB SATA Maxtor 8MB 7200rpm attached in Promise controller (not in RAID mode)
OS: Windows XP, SP1, with a couple of Updates through Windows update
The problem is that, my two Maxtor drives attached to Promise controller, get a Scandisk EVERY time I boot. This also happened to my WD, but after updating VIA4-1, drivers and BIOS, this problem was fixed.
When I try to update Promise's drivers with the latest ones (378_55), they just don't work (The device gets an yellow "!" symbol, in the device manage).
The machine works just fine in all other aspects. It's only that problem that makes my nerves break. Any suggestions?

Quote from: Bas on 17-December-11, 01:00:24
The Promise BIOS is part of the motherboard BIOS, you can't flash it separate.
Thats's what I thought.
Quote from: Bas on 17-December-11, 01:00:24
I doubt you ever used the promise else it would have recognized the drives.
Just turn it off and use the SB600, it's faster anyway.
You are probably right about me using the SB600 as I as very unfamiliar with the board, and both RAID controllers looks almost the same when POST-ing
What I don't understand is why they put in an rather advanced RAID controlled like the T3 when the SB600 one was faster anyway? Would it not make more sense that the system would be faster with two separate controllers working on separate disks?

Pci Promise card problem on Speedster FA4

Well after finaly sorting all my other problems. A new one turned up.
Promise PCI Ultra133 TX2 card. I have used this card a long time
and it has been working great. Latest bios and everything.
I have tried everything I can think of and nothing works, as a final
solve to this problem is to get new SATA drives. I am not happy
about that :(
I can't get the computer to boot beyond the startup point (i know this is
a bios issue). Everything works fine, the pci card is detected, windows
finds it and all settings in bios are standard more or less.
The problem turns up when I connet a IDE drive to the card. Everything
works fine and the BIOS on the card detects the harddrives, then the computer
continues on to boot up the system, and there it stops. I have tried
to disable most things in bios as I read someone in here had problems with a
TV card and they got that working by shutting down things in the system.
I am going to get another card in hops that it will work, if not, I guess I have
to get new SATA harddrives, that suck. After all this is a server card motherboard
more or less, if you can't use PCI cards what is the point?
I think this problem could be fore SCSI and other pci cards as well.
Anyone ? ideérs

You mean it stops somewhere during Windows boot?
Did you edit the boot.ini to make sure Windows loads from the right controller?
It's not just a controller/driver matter, Windows needs to have the proper settings in the boot.ini on where to load from.
Also, it could be the card is fighting with other things on the board.
This typicaly happens to controllers like Raid and/or IDE-cards that have their own boot-bios.

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