S.M.A.R.T. on fasttrak controller?

I have 2 IDE harddisks connected to the Promise Fasttrak, and I would like to monitor their temperatures with speedfan.
I was able to do this when these disks were connected to the VIA controller, before I moved them yesterday.
But now speedfan does not detect them.
Is it possible to read SMART data at all from this controller?

None that I ever found. I can't read the Promise for temps either. I just keep my raid running with a fan blowing cool air over the drives and use my Hardcanno to check temps there. I have yet to see any issues with HDD temps though so it was never a concern for me.

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MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Questions & RAID Promise FastTrak Controller Issue

I have recently rebuilt my system replacing the MSI KT3 with an MSI K7N2 Delta. I have been impressed with the features and stability of the system, however, I have some questions that I hope some of you that have more experience of this board can answer:
1. I am using the AMD Athlon XP 2200 (and all the other components including the Lian Li case) which I was using on the KT3 board. The CPU temperature is around 45 degrees C but on the KT3 it was only 35 degrees C when idle. Any ideas ? The heatsink is definetly mounted properly. The temperature did drop by 10 degrees C when I flashed the
BIOS to fix the known CPU temperature issue but I think its still high.
2. I do not have any serial ATA devices or anything connected to IDE3 channel and during the BIOS boot up I get the message:
"No drives attached to FastTrak Controller. Bios Not installed."
Is this correct ? Should I be getting this message ?
I would like to disable the onboard Promise Controller since it is taking up resources and it slows down the boot speed (although only slightly). The MSI website says that the onboard RAID controller can't be disabled. I think this is poor design. Does anyone know if this is going to be addressed in future BIOS releases ?
3. Which of the USB ports are USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. I thought it was rather strange that only 2 of the 4 ports on the header actually active.
Many thanks for your help.
Rupesh

First off your temp is ok on that board. If you have not loaded the onboard raid driver do so and it is something you have to suffer with on the MSI board. All of your USB ports should run at USB 2.0 and you also should be able enable all of them in the bios.

Fasttrak controller nonexistant

when i boot up i get an error that says,
no drive attached to FastTrak Controller, the BIOS is not installed. how can i fix this? i've been into the bios and have the operting system installed.

Hi,
You could close your eyes while it's booting.
This is NOT an error message, it's just telling you that you don't have anything attached to the Fasttrack Contoller - so it won't install it's BIOS. It's stating the obvious really!
In other words - just ignore it!
Axel

FastTrak 376 RAID on KT4 Failure?

My System Specs.
MSI KT4 Ultra A6590VZ2 V1.3B1 121702
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
AMI BIOS 12/17/2002
PC2100 DDR Ram 3(512meg)
Radeon 9700 Video
Audigy 1 Sound
Sony DRU500a DVD-r-rw+r+rw (Primary Slave) IDE1
Maxtor 20 gig ATA/100 (Secondary Slave) IDE2
Maxtor 120 gig ATA/133 (Raid Master) IDE3
System fully operational for 6 months. Yesterday Morning BSOD from Windows XP Kernel_Inpage_Error. Power down machine, and power back up. Boot Failure. Seems as if the FastTrak RAID controller isn't reconizing my Maxtor 120gig ATA/133 Hard Disk. Reboot a few more times, same problem.
Download PowerMax from Maxtor's website to determine what hardware is failing. For me to run these diagnostics, I have to plug the Maxtor 120gig onto the normal IDE channels. The drive is reconized by the Primary IDE channel (interesting). If the drive is reconized by the standard IDE channels, why isn't the FastTrak controller reconizing it? I run diagnostic checks on hard drive. It seems to pass the tests.
Out of curiosity, I plug my Maxtor 20 gig into the RAID channel to see if it reconized it, it didn't. So this leads me to beleive that the RAID controller isn't functioning properly. I tried it in all Master/Slave jumper configurations as well.
I saw in Promise Technologies FAQ that it is possible to access the data from a standard IDE channel, with RAID 0 mapped drives. In this case, mine is RAID 0 with no array. Just 1 drive to the EIDE interface on the KT4 ultra board. Is this possible? How is it performed?
Any inquiries would be of significant help!
Thanks.
FastTrak 376 (tm) BIOS Version 1.00.0.18
Scanning IDE drives . . . . . .
No drive attached to FastTrak controller, The BIOS is not installed.

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Originally posted by christop
All i can say is make sure the Jumpers on the HDD are set right for the way you have it set up
Well, jumpers shouldn't be an issue. This confuration has worked for six months. RAID 0, and Windows XP installation. Flawless and fast, even. , just yesterday morning, Kernel_inpage_Error BSOD, and now the FastTrak Controller won't reconize any drives. All HardDisks pass the manufactures diagnostics, plus, the drives work on the Primary/Secondary IDE channels.

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....

K8T- impossible to disable Fasttrak!!!

Hi All
I've got a problem with the MSI K8T Neo FIS2R. On every startup the message
"No drive attached to the Fasttrak controller, the Bios is not installed" appears
I've already disable SATA under integrated perpherals and Onboard PCI, but the message still appears.
Can anyone tell me how to disable Fasttrak?
My System:
AMD64 3200+
MSI K8T NEO FIS2R
gForce FX 5900 XT
Infineon 512 MB DDR400 Cl3
120GB IDE Seagate
400W PSU

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Originally posted by Cozman
i had this problem when i first used the K8T even with it disabled in the BIOS it would still search for drives and report BIOS not loaded ... i found its to do with the "Unused PCI Slot Clock" setting on the Frequency/Voltage control page of the mb BIOS .. if set to enabled this reinstates the controller .. so disable both that and the controller stops the problem for me ...
hope it helps & happy computing
Ok
Will try that when i get home tonight

No drive attached to FastTrak message during boot

I have installed the MS 6190 mainboard with AMD ATHLON XP 2100+ and VGA MS8890.
During boot, even if all peripherals are correctly detected, I got the following message :
"No drive attached to FastTrak controller, BIOS is not install".
I do not understand at all this message. I can enter the BIOS (AMIBIOS V3.31a), but modifying parameters does not solve the situation. The device then asks to if I want to start Windows normally, or in safe mode, but it always reboot and I am stuck in this infernal loop.
Thanks for help,
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Hi,
Go into the BIOS and find the RAID or Sata controller, turn it off, that will remove that message.

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....

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR - RAID BIOS Option ???

hi ho,
i have my 2 storage devices pluged into the promise 376 onboard controller. they are not connected as a real raid (not mirror nor real stripe). my OS is win2k on the first sata device and everything was fine for a long time.
but now when my system boots, it detects the ide drives and then i see the irq board.
right after that the system stops and tells me 'disk boot failure'. so i don`t get the chance to configure my raidcontroller or my sata devices.
it is as the controller is deactivated. i remember a bios version where you could activate and deactivate the sata controller. but in my bios (right now it is v7.8) there is no such option.
i have tested so far:
- reset cmos
- flash bios v7.5 to 7.8
- disconnected sata drives
anyone with similar problems or any suggestion?
> MoBo : K7N2 Delta-ILSR Bios v7.8
> CPU : AMD Barton 2500+ (not overclocked)
> Ram : TwinMos 1GB 3200 400Mhz
> Sata : 2 x Maxtor 120GB Sata (as single Devices on Raid-Controller)
> Ide : 60GB IBM DeckStar
> Gra : ATI 9600 pro 128MB
> Aud : SB Audigy 2 ZS
> Pow : SilverPower 350W, +3,3V/+5V@25A and 12V@18A
> OS : win 2000 SP4 + Security Updates 31.07.04 + DirectX 9.0c

watch the bottom of the screen after pressing Enter on the "Welcome to Setup" screen. There will be some moments of files being loaded, and then you should see a message appear which says "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver". This message will only stay on the screen for a couple of seconds, so press F6 as soon as you see it appear. After this is done, you will see other messages appear, and it will act as though nothing is happening, but eventually a screen will appear which will allow you to install the drivers for the sata controller.
specify a device press S, select "win 2000 promise fasttrak 376 controller" it will read floppy and load, dot not remove floppy yet, continue win2000 install it may nead to access floppy to finish installing raid driver, did you do it like this.
try making some floppy boot disks and boot to floppy instead of cd.
http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml
when you say there not listed, where did you see this? they wont be listed, windows will search for fasttrak controller so it will see sata's conected to it with out you knowing, so long as you load the controller from floppy that came with mobo as above.

RAID disk not detected by Windows XP

I have installed a single disk connected to the RAID controller on my K7T266 Pro2-R Mobo.
The RAID controller (that is enabled in BIOS) detects the disk, reports a correct size and reports it as "Functional". I have used the BIOS utility to assign an "Array" to the single disk drive.
I downloaded the latest drivers from this site and I have installed the drivers in Windows XP Pro (a number of times...) In the Device Manager, I get a "Windows XP Promise FastTrak100(tm) Controller(PDC20265)" under the "SCSI and RAID controllers" folder. The driver seems to work (at least the Device Manager claims "This device is working properly.")
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The event log says nothing of interrest.
I use the FastTrak PCI version in another system running Windows 2003 Server and there everything works OK. But that driver is almost a year newer...
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I just happened ( ) to have a second identical disk drive laying around (Christmas time you know...) so I installed it in the system. If the driver has any "single disk restrictions", it should work now - shouldn't it?
The BIOS RAID setup happilly discovered the new disk and I configured the two disks as a stripe set.
Windows XP? Nothing. The disks simply doesn't exist. There must be something wrong with the WinXP driver, but I can't figure out what. I've scanned the Internet and there seems to be a number of people having the same problem, but I haven't found anyone that have a solution.
MSI? Promise? We have a problem here...

KT4 ULTRA FISR SATA Problem

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Startup prob with kt4ultra...

When I start the computer it says,
(no drive attached to fasttrak controller, the bios is not installed)
why is this? please help me.
p.s. the motherboard is new, so this is the first time I`m testing it.

Hi!
You will have to disable RAID ... Not sure but I think that you can disable that option in BIOS. Go into BIOS and give it a try ...
I remember reading about this in this forum, there must also be a thread on this somewhere )
Hans
PS: Let us know what happened )

845 PE Max2 XP on a SATA Drive?

Hello all,
I am finding alot of posts regarding installing XP to a SATA drive, but of course none of them actually addresses my issue, does anyone have any suggestions?
I am installing a 300Gb Sata drive to run windows and all of my software off of. I have set it up in the 'FastTrak' controller to show up. It shows up as a valid option to boot to in my BIOS and everything, but I get the old 'Windows could not find any hard drives on your system BS'. I tried the 'Press F6' thing, and had it install the Promise driver for XP, no dice.
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Nah, I tried that already. BIOS sees it as a valid choice to boot to, and the FastTrack Array setup says that's it's a bootable array, and shows it to be the correct size, but Win XP doesn't see it at all.
The only two settings in my BIOS in regards to SATA are:
Onboard Serial ATA IDE
Load Serial ATA IDE BIOS
These are both checked, and unchecking them seems to do nothing more than disable the SATA stuff altogether, apparently to save time in the boot up...
ANy other suggestions? I can't really afford to go buy a new board, chip, and RAM right now, but this current one IS about 3 or 4 years old by now.

Sata on K7n2 delta (2nd time)

I have once asked this question but I need it explained for the second time.
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I have reinstaled my computer too many times and have changed too much
of hardware... but one thing that was allways fast was my SATA Maxtor.
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