Promise SATA ultra controller

I have an 875 board and can't get the Promise driver to work. During the start up I'm told that the Promise bios is not installed (?!?). When the controller is recognised in Windows XP Professional it prompts me to load drivers. I use the latest set but the system takes an age to load the ptipbm.dll and then becomes very unstable before freezing. I have to restart to the last known good configuration.
Help please.

Hey,
Are you using the S-ATA connector(s) or the Ultra ATA IDE connector (IDE3)??
What bios version are you using? I used the drivers that came on the CD. Actually, I used MSI's Autoplay on the disc to install it.
Usually that message indicates that the promise card did not identify any hard drives connected. Check connections, then check the bios setup.
Also what configuration are you trying to achieve with the Promise 378? I set up two drives on a single channel RAID-0. Both drives as CABLE SELECT. Then set the Promise IDE to AS RAID. Then when it when it sees the drives you can use CTRL-F like Barking Dog wisely suggested )
I was able to actually transplant my RAID from my Fasttrak TX2000 straight onto my onboard 378. I lost about 2MB sec (66 down to 64), but it was worth it to actually get use of a feature I paid for on the board.

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Locked Frequency on Promise SATA/PATA Controller on K8T Neo FIS2R?

We all know that there is no PCI lock on any K8T800. However, this link to an Athlon 64 info page on Mushkin's website declares that the Promise contoller on the Asus K8V board has a "locked" frequency. You'll have to scroll down to the heading "The boards currently most in demand for the Athlon64 are:" and read the *.
Question number 1, does the K8T Neo have an identical Promise controller to the Asus K8V (I think it does)? Question number 2, is it even possible for any SATA/PATA controller to "lock" it's frequency since it's on a PCI bus? Question number 3, can anyone verify that this frequency is locked or not?
I know there are software tools out there to check the hypertransport speed, etc. but is there a tool that could test the speed at the controller? If this link from Mushkin is true, then you would be crazy to overclock on anything but the Promise controller given the history of this board scrambling hard drives when overclocked.

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Originally posted by Jocko
Hey, now thats interesting, I may backup, and try to OC again.
If thats your pic, I hope this isn't a fishy story, is the fish in the pic edited with Photoshop
Cheers
jocko
Actually, it's a 4.5 pound Smallmouth Bass I caught at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia last March. It was taken with a digital camera and I had to shrink down the size to fit here, but no editing was done. It's the real deal. Almost worthy of a citation, missed it by a half pound or a half inch.

KT4 Ultra (6590) need update of the Promise SATA RAID Controller PDC20376

The last Bios update AMI 1.4 for the KT4 Ultra (6590) have built in the bios version 1.00.0.18 for the PDC20376 (Promise 376).
I can configure 2 maxtor (6E040T0) sata1 in a raid0 array and it works under WinXP SP3,
but the 2 drives are working in UDMA5 according to the FastBuild Utility when the motherboard specifications talks about 150Mb (SATA1).
It's not an OS problem because the FastBuild Utility at Bios startup show the UDMA5 mode for HDD.
It's not a Maxtor 6E040T0 (SATA1) problem because have no jumper to set.
The Promise support center don't provide support for built in raid controller but the responce was that it's related to a known bios issue of the controller, so i have to update.
For the last Bios version for the S150 TX4 controller look at:
http://promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=108&category=all&os=100&go=GO
It's impossible to update the bios with the promise tool because the controller is integrated in the motherboard.
I read for example than on the motherboard K7N2 Delta-ILSR the bios version of the Promise 376 controller is 1.00.0.21:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=92756.msg665966#msg665966
I think the only solution is a modding bios, where i have to replace only the Promise controller bios but:
1) The tool amibcp.exe can't open the A6590VMS.140 AMI bios (renamed .rom), i don't know why!!!
2) What promise controller bios rom file is good?
Can anyone out there help . . . please ?

This is my results compared to my other UDMA6 HDD on IDE1, HDTach long bench stop with "Read Error" and only quick bench works.
The version of the Controller driver under WinXP-SP3 is 1.0.1.29 and I configured the driver in the PAM Utility with:
"Driver Write Cache" enabled and "Write Back" as cache settings (The 2 Maxtor SATA1 in RAID have 2MB of cache, but i don't know How many cache have the controller!!).
The Burst Speed is too strange!!! quick bench error?
I made it so your image is clickable.
-Frankenputer

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!!

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....

[Athlon64] Promise/SATA/Promise/RAID/Promise! What's it all mean?

I've been reading up on some of the RAID information scattered around the Internet, and I've also been reading the booklets bundled with my MSI motherboard. My questions lean more toward the meaning of Promise and its various "forms" (?), and I think these booklets have left some holes.
1) What are the major differences between Promise and VIA Serial ATA setups, other than the HDD LED light (not) functioning?
2) Why does my BIOS allow me to select RAID/SATA from the Promise controller, when Promise is only one choice of Serial ATA setup on my board, as opposed to VIA? Why is RAID offered as an "option" with Serial ATA? (RAID is a way of utilizing the drive, SATA is the drive interface!)
3) "Promise FastTrak 378" or "Promise SATA150 378" controllers...huh? Aren't they both Serial ATA capable? What about Via's controller? What's the difference between the two Promises?
Basically, I'm confused with the rerferences to Promise. Thanks again...

Hi, I'll try to create some clarity here...Promise is a manufacturer of controllers, both add on PCI card controllers and onboard controllers. Your board has 2 drive controllers, the VIA VT8237 Southbridge and the Promise Fasttrack 20378 controller. Both controllers handle SATA and IDE interfaces with hard drives. They both offer you IDE(-RAID) and SATA(-RAID) configurations. Some say the Promise works faster, some say the VIA works faster. Try for yourself to decide which works for you. Now, to answer your questions:
1) The only difference is that the Promise controller is on the boards PCI bus. This might help during overclocking, because PCI frequency would be locked at 33 MHz. Your board doesn't overclock very well, so this is not that big a difference. On both controllers your HDD led should function normally.
2) You can select various settings in your bios to match the installed hard drive configuration, so the controller knows what to look for. RAID configurations come in arrays: RAID 0 = striping mode, RAID 1 = mirroring mode, RAID 0+1 = 4 drives striped + mirrored, JBOD = just a bunch of discs installed. You can setup both controllers, VIA and Promise, in your bios.
3) As mentioned above, you have two controllers: the Promise and the VIA. SATA150 indicates the interface (Serial ATA max. 150 MB/sec). This interface is newer than Parallel ATA (= IDE max. 133 MB/sec) and SCSI (various speeds, very fast). Now, there's also SATA2 (= Serial ATA max. 300 MB/sec). Don't mind all of these speeds too much, a single drive will not reach them.
Hope to have made things a bit more clear...

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!

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

Promise SATA or Intel SATA

has anyone actually got down to the nitty gritty of testing the difference between the Promise 376/378 SATA/RAID Controller and the Intel SATA/RAID controller.
first let me start by saying i have the older Maxtor 160gig SATA drives, both have the oder chipset on them, the one that the sticky post says is a "buggy" chipset.
well i can confirm that, from the drives being noisy, to whats seems to be slow performance, to the fact that every week the raid is failing, and i have to rebuild or reconfirm the raid, to the drives just failing when the system boots.
whats odd is that every single diagnostics i have run, and its not just the maxtor utility. ive tried several others, all say the drives are independantly good and that the RAID0 STRIPE is good.
but one of the drives shows FAILED in the Intel SATA Status screen. but windows loads fine and everything seems to be ok.
but today i booted up and chkdsk ran for no reason and i had tons of file errors.
so im tired of it,
im now trying the primise SATA controller. and if they continue to fail,,, i am RMA'ing them with maxtor. screw it i cant afford to have the drives failing every week and sometimes constantly everyday.
so,,, for ME, Promise is the leader in SATA and RAID, RAID to me has always been Lead by Seagate, but i havent seen any of their SATA controller, but i have had GREAT luck with other promise IDE controllers ive used.
has anyone actually tested the performance,. stability and such of the promise 376-378 controller ?
is it better than the Intel SATA controller? more stable ? faster ?

8kb sectors huh ?
how you setting up the intel raid ?
my 865PE neo2 fis2r wont allow you to change the size. are you going pack with partition magic or something and changing it?
or are you just partitioning a seperate partition like i do for all your games and telling windows to use a different sector size.
and to kind lay out a bit of the graphics frame rate increase your claiming is from the larger sector size.
graphics lag isnt going to increase THAT much , simply because of one HUGE reason.
constant frame rates are measured by the graphics that are being rendered, those graphics being rendered are in video ram, system ram, and those about to be rendered or a section of the map about to be loaded is in the page file and possibly in a temp file in the game dir.
thats a pretty large increase to be saying simply sector size did it,,, ive been gaming for quite a long time, and sure disk access time effects loading but it will ONLY effect game frame rates when your dealing with a game that is CONSTANTLY loading sounds levels and sections of a map, ie seamless loading.
Rainbow six ravenshield does not do this, it loads pretty much everything it needs into your ram, and video ram. with minimal access to your hard drive. changing to 8kb size isnt going to effect it the way your talking about, not a 20 frames per second increase.
now BF 1942,, it plays a bit differently, because of the size of it levels and the fact that there can be a huge amount of things going onscreen, yes it tends to access the disk alot, so a different or more efficient disk sectoring could infact increase performance.
im pretty sure your performance is coming from some place else.
but because im a sucker for performance, im gunna give this a try, i have a partition i just partitioned and havent loaded yet, im gunna reformat with a 8kb setting and load up a game, one that i know how it performs, and ill report back with what i find out..

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.

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?
***edit***
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.

[VIA] Cannot Boot From SATA PCI Controller With On Board RAID Enabled

Hi.
I have a KT3 ULTRA 2 with onboard RAID controller. I have installed a SUNIX 2 port SATA PCI Controller which works perfectly & appears in the selectable boot devices. This is not a problem except for the fact that I have 4 devices on the On-Board Raid Controller. When the on-board raid controller is enabled, the SATA device dissapears from the boot options & I can no longer boot from the SATA controller.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks

I had already tried that....
I set the boot sequence to use the SATA card & then renabled the on-board raid, but after reboot the sata card is not available as a possible boot device & asks me to insert system disk...even if the boot sequence is set to boot from other devices.
Really annoyying this, looks like I am going to have to get a different motherboard for something so silly. I am already at the latest bios release.

How to change SATA disk controller on Toshiba Satellite A135 s2276

Hello guys, I know that there was a similar question already (kindly answered by Mike), but my situation differs a little.
I'm trying to install the SSD intead of my hard drive.
Problem is that even though BIOS can see the SSD I cannot install Windows on it (tried XP and 7). Cannot even format it from installation disk (it just hangs).
When I hook it up on a usb cable, it works fine (SSD). I can format it (from windows) and copy files on it like and external drive it doesn't have any issues.
When I try to install windows on it (either from a CD or usb) it hangs. The same situation is if I try to install the system when the SSD is in usb port or if I put it inside, where my hard drive originally is (SATA connection). It just seets there. Comes to copying files and then stops.
I think I'd need to change the SATA disk controller in BIOS (sata to ide or compatibility mode) in order for it to work, however there's no such an option in the latest BIOS for this model (1.60).
Any help appreciated, thanks Miki
ps. update - I succesfully installed windows on another Toshiba (which has the option to change the sata controller in bios), using the same SSD so I think this is definitely the problem. Any ideas apart from buying a newer comp?

Hi
If such option is NOT available in BIOS then you will be no able to change this!!!
In such case the HDD controller will say in SATA mode and if you want to install an operating system then you need to install the SATA drivers firstly!
Bye

Advice for SATA 3 Controller & Fibre Ethernet Mac Pro Mid 2010

All
I have a few Mac Pro Mid 2010, One of which is dedicated as a main file server and currently runs OS X Lion Server, and will likely be upgraded at some point to Mountain Lion Server when OS/App is bug free (got caught with early OS X Lion Server implementation, so a little more cautious this time around).
Within there are 4 X WD RE4 Enterprise 2TB SATA 3 HDD's in a RAID 10 configuration (4TB useable ~ aka Raid 1+0, provides good data redundancy), with an OCZ Agility 3 SSD for Boot and Superdrive, no spare SATA. It all works quite well.
This Mac Pro frequently serves other Mac Pro (workstations) large +300mb and numerous small +1mb files (engineering analysis datasets) simutaneously, the workstations dump their compiled data from their SSD Scratch to this server, so there is a lot of data transfer back and forth. The server also acts as focal for Time Machine Backups for the Mac Pro and Macbooks, whilst providing a SMB and iSCSI backup location for legacy Windoze Server (Mail/FTP server) and Windoze PC VM's. Ethernet is 802.3ad bonded (2Gb link) to LAN backbone switch (32Gb bandwidth managed switch with 2Gb SMF or SFP fibre capability X 2 = 4Gb bond).
I appreciate the Mac Pro currently has a SATA 2 controller, I would like advice on drop in replacement SATA 3 controller. I have read many articles on the web with Pro's and Con's for various PCIe cards, with some SATA 3 controllers able to boot, others not capable. Some SATA3 controllers appear to have been taken directly from the Windoze arena with not real support backup etc and it is difficult to know what to go for and indeed what is actually compatible with current and future OS X and Mac Pro base hardware as the articles maybe are not current. I warrant the experience of real Mac Pro users.
Initially I would like to achieve a configuration which permits SATA 3 transfer with existing RAID 10 and Boot SSD setup. Secondly have the possibility of RAID 5 (would add in another WD RE4 Enterprise 2TB SATA 3 HDD to existing array), and maybe also eSATA as this Mac Pro in entirety backs up daily to a Synology DS1511+ which has eSATA and would take some strainout of the ethernet link to the server.
Additionally with a SATA 3 RAID setup, it's likely even with both inbuilt ethernet 802.3ad bonded the link could become saturated, what experience of Fibre Ethernet I'm guessing these would be PCIe cards?
Thanks in advance.

Wow! The problem rectified itself.
Inexplicably, after two hours went by, the suspended job just started running again. Weird.
Basically an hour and a half after trying to find a solution and coming here to write for help, when I went back to try something else I noticed that the suspended job had finally resumed all on its own accord.
I had tried setting and unsetting the spare and restarting the Mac Pro several times to no avail.
The last time I set the disk as a spare was 1:10 p.m., and the rebuild job started up on it's own at 2:06 p.m. -- weird that it waited almost an hour, but I'm just happy it is working.
Problem "solved."

Oracle Ent. Linux drivers for HP Smart Array B110i Sata Raid Controller

Trying to install Oracle Ent. Linux (OEL) release 4 update 8 on HP DL 180 G6 server. Where we can find OEL drivers for the sata raid controller ?
(HP Smart Array B110i Sata Raid Controller)
Thanks in advance.

The HP support side shows a Linux certification matrix at: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hplinuxcert.html
From there you can also download the necessary drivers and instructions or use HP smartstart CD which prepares the system for the OS you need to install. Oracle Enterprise Linux is binary compatible with RHEL. You will need to click on "Archive" to see support for Enterprise Linux version 4 and older.
Also interesting should be Red Hat Enterprise Linux Technical Exceptions at
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/supportmatrix/rhel/exceptions/rhel-exceptions.html

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