SATA Drive and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring

I have two HDs in my 865PE Neo2 FIS2R system. I have the S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring enabled in the BIOS.
One HD is an IDE (parallel) drive and the other is a SATA drive connected to the serial port on the MB.
At bootup the IDE drive reports the S.M.A.R.T. status but the SATA drive does not.
Is there any way I can get the SATA drive to report?
The SATA drive is my system drive if that makes any difference.
TIA, Rich

Quote from: Maesus on 03-January-07, 10:27:19
Rich, as long as your SATA drive plugs to the SATA Port that belongs to ICH, you will get the SMART status displayed by the utilities as suggested above. But if you put the SATA drive on a 3rd party controller, ie the Promise RAID controller, you won't be able to access to the SMART status.
ps: to be honest, SMART is not that smart to tell you that your HDD has turned bad... your HDD would just fail to be detected, before the BIOS able to warn you via the SMART status...
Not always true, I've had SMART warn me a couple of times that a drive was about to fail - i backup the data - and the drive DID fail soon after ...
Offcourse it won't be able to detect all failures in time - But every bit helps

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After re-watching the Youtube clip that i followed, i think i have modified the wrong cable.
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Can't load XP onto SATA drive

I have a problem with a new system I am putting together. The MB and HD are new and I do not suspect either of them to be the problem. I formated the HD with Maxtor's program and it seems to go fine. I can load the 6 floppies and start the CD for XP. The HD appears in the boot sequence. I can not find anything in the BIOS that suggests it supports SATA, even though I looked everywere. When I try to load XP it goes OK until it asks where you want to do the installation and at that point it suggests there is no HD. This is the only HD in the system. Any suggestions would be appreciated because MSI support is closed for the weekend and I want to work on this over the weekend.
MSI motherboard 661FM3-V
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Quote from: bear47 on 03-December-06, 22:44:25
Tried another SATA disk and it does not show in My Computer or Windows Explorer either. I know the new disk is good because I took it out of another working computer. One thing though, I did not install any of the critical updates, so I assume it does not even have SP1, does that matter?
Back to the BIOS question. One of the above replies suggested making some changes to the BIOS and those options are not there. I tried the key combinations and they did not bring up new menu options either. How much effect does the BIOS have on the SATA drive? Does it need the update to make it SATA compatable as far as the options? Sorry to be such a bother, but this is my first experience using the SATA that gave me a problem. I put togther a system for my wife and used a SATA drive and everything was seamless.
ensure you have running XP with SP2. and sis chipset drivers are installed.
"Back to the BIOS question. One of the above replies suggested making some changes to the BIOS and those options are not there. I tried the key combinations and they did not bring up new menu options either. How much effect does the BIOS have on the SATA drive? Does it need the update to make it SATA compatable as far as the options? Sorry to be such a bother, but this is my first experience using the SATA that gave me a problem. I put togther a system for my wife and used a SATA drive and everything was seamless. "
yes they can be crucial.

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Hi all
First time poster, long time lurker.
Hoping someone here can shed a bit of light on an unusual problem I am having.
Before I outline the problem I will say that my system is running beautifully, I've not got any problems with it in its current configuration, in fact it is the most stable set up I've owned so far. I am a happy MSI owner.
If I can get this issue sorted I'll be an extremely happy MSI owner. Now to the actual problem...
I have a pair of 36GB SCSI160 drives that I use for my system and apps drives and a 120GB ATA drive that I use for storage.
I've purchased a 120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive to add to my system as I've just about run out of space on the 120GB ATA drive, my storage drive.
I installed the new drive, set it up as a single Raid 0 volume using the SATA boot utility and checked it all under DOS, tested all OK.
The problem happens once I've booted into windows and enter my username and password.
I get a BSOD, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x000000D1 Error which then does a memory dump, do a reboot and same thing.
Remove the SATA drive and system boots and works flawlessly, I'm typing this on it right now!
I can have the SATA drive connected to the system and NOT have a volume on it and the system works fine, naturally WINXP doesn't see the drive but it doesn't interfer with the operations at all. As soon as I put a volume on the drive... bam, BSOD next time I try to login after I boot up WinXP.
This indicates to me that the issue is a driver problem... I've tried the latest and still the same situation.
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Originally posted by Wonkanoby
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=49947&sid=&hilight=scsi
things like this are all over the board though yours does not sound totally the same
Thanks for the link.
Very informative. Appears that there isn't an option for me at this time other than NOT using one or the other... I can have SCSI card and no onboard SATA OR I can have onboard SATA and no SCSI card.
Seems to me a BIOS revision is needed as it appears that this is not an uncommon scenario.
Thank you for your time Wonkanoby.

Sata drive problems

right my dilema is this i have buit a new system and everything works fine, finished it off by buying a couple of maxtor sata drives, a 200gig for storage and a 120gig for boot/os.
maxblast3 i cannot get to run from cd or floppy but it runs fine from windows so i am able to see the drives and format them etc.
saturday i spent best part on 12 hours trying to install windows xp on the 120 and everytime i was defeated, and finally got off with it, so cracked a bottle open
ok then install process was
boot form cd
xp cd in drive
mobo sata drivers in floppy ready
press any key to boot from cd
wait abit
F6 to install extra drivers, done that ok
cd activity copying files over ready to install
your pc will reboot in 15 seconds
boots up fine, don't press key to boot from cd
bang my problem begins
the screen reads like this " press any key to boot from cd........error loading operating system"
anyone else suffered this and managed to get around it ? this happens "everytime"
so the next thing was to try the 200gig even though it was not recognised as 200gig (137) and install xp so i done exactly the same as above and everything went fine xp installed no problem. however i don't want xp on this drive as i do not want to partition it and it is too much messing round to get windows to recognise its true size.
the 200gig is a diamondmax +10 ncq 7200rpm sata/150 it has no molex and no jumper place on it.
the 120 is a diamondmax +9 7200rpm sata/150 now this drive has a molex plug and a jumper place like an ordinary drive, it also has a sata power point and sata connection point. it look exactly like an ide drive with ide plug pulled off and sata point put on it i thought sata's did not need jumpers ?
another thing i have noticed....in your system tray you have an icon like a little grey box with a green arrow above it that you use to safely remove hardware like usb stuff etc my drive shows up in there ?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...orbog/sata1.jpg
anyone got a sata 120 gig as a boot drive ? what make do you have ?
my pc spec is
msi k8n neo2 mobo
1 gig dual channel ram
amd 64bit 3200 winchester cpu
antec neopoer 480w psu
plenty cooloing
msi 6600gt 128mb graphic card
using ide drive at the mo
hope this makes sense, thanks for any advice
forgot to add the 120 works fine as generic storage drive just can't get an o/s onto it.

Quote from: BWA on 14-February-05, 11:18:17
Just threw that into the discussion to see if it would lead anywhere. I'm using Hitachi sata drives and they are the same as the IDE drive with an added chip foir the sata (think that is why they still have the old style power connection along with the sata connection)
my system's based on the same mobo (k8n neo4) with only one Hitachi80GB sataII hdd... and i have the same trouble like 'gravies': i'd get windows to start install (with help of drivers off floppy; by F6) but when it reboots to actually set up the system it hangs... not recognizing the boot files written on my SATAdrive = or the drive itself...
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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!

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I've run MSI Live Update and have the latest BIOS, latest SATA XP driver, latest EVERYTHING.
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I think there must be an IRQ conflict.... I have a sound card (on-board sound is turned OFF in BIOS) and AGP video card, and that's it- no WiFi NIC or anything else to eat up IRQ resources. I use the Realtek on-board ethernet.
I tried my Windows 98 partition and that booted, detected the new hardware (VIA SATA) and I installed the driver from the MSI CD and Win 98 is happy with the SATA drive..... it sees the drive just fine.
How do I make Windows XP see the SATA drive?

Have you tried starting XP with CD and entering recovery, log on as admin and see if SATA drive is there? Remember to "F6" with a floppy drive of SATA drivers for
-XP-... I'm assuming you already have as you said all is uptodate. When the boot BIOS for the VIA SATA apprears and you press "TAB" I believe it is, you can mess with the SATA functions. Sorry if does not apply to your compy or you've already done all this.... BTW you CAN run a RAID array with one HDD, at least thats what I did on my Promise controller.
In my Device Manager under Disk drives it looks like this (notes bracketed are noting position):
Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0 (G:\ 1-160GB IDE Seagate/notice ONE drive)
Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (F:\ 2x200 SATA)
ST3160023A (Location 1 (1) VIA IDE D:\)
VIA SATA RAID 0 SCSI Disk Device (Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0) (E:\ 2x120 SATA)
WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (Location 0 (0) VIA IDE C:\)
Under the boards BIOS, is the SATA drive listed under the BOOT table??? In my system it lists the above 5 partitions (7 HDD's total), floppy, 2 CD/DVD drives, etc...
Oh also in Device Manager IS the VIA SATA controller appearing in the "SCSI and RAID controllers" tab??? I have set mine to just SATA before and of course now it says "VIA SATA RAID Controller"... for you it should read "VIA SATA Controller". Remember there are 2 different drivers for the SATA controller, one for SATA and one for SATA RAID. Look on your floppy disk or if you saved out the updated driver. I made a new floppy with the latest XP drivers. When booting from WINXP CD, and promted for "F6" and press it, later it will show you TWO different drivers after reading the floppy disk for XP. You obviously want the non RAID driver... hope that helps somewhat... g'luck

SATA - Registry and data corruption

Hey guys... I thought I'd pass these on, because the information contained therein is very solid, if not somewhat incomplete.
Summary of the issue:
Users are experiencing random data corruption or outright registry errors when the computer is powered on. These errors are not happening with reboots, only with cold starts.
The problem? It appears that Windows is shutting down too quickly. With the registry being the last thing to get written to, a shut-down midway through can be devastating. There are also indications that drives with 8mb buffers are being negatively effected by 48-bit LBA.
The cuplrit? The VIA SATA Driver, and possibly one of the Windows Service Packs... I would read though these two threads and see if they help. I'm still sketchy on solutions (the second thread is mainly WinXP oriented, and I run Win2K), but at least I now know what is happening and that a solution MAY pop up... A solution other than buying a seperate SATA controller with a different chipset.
http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=20&threadid=47963
http://forums.pcper.com/showindex.php?s=890ec3c36a77b696a1ab7bedc364cce0&threadid=268684&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

I had this board before I RMA-ed it because it was in my opinion just plain "flaky"! I understand that the majority of the "issues" with this board are #1 PSU and #2 Memory...However, quite frankly MSI should be "up front" on the box and in advertising what the recommended PSU minimum requirements are for this board and they should ensure that retailers and OEM builders like Alienware and Cybertron that build custom AMD-64 systems that utilize this board are completely cognizant of the PSU requirements and recommended power supply vendors. In the same fashion as they do when for recommended memory modules that have been tested with this board.
"Frysign" the originator of this thread was simply posting some information about SATA corruption that he felt was important to get out and I Thank him for that information. After all isn't this the purpose of this forum to share information to try and enlighten and Help each other ?
I hope so ! The follow on threads to Frysign's post seemed less interested in learning something about possible reasons for SATA drive corruption and more interested in cutting him off with the instinctual reply that "it's your power supply dude".
The wealth of information that exists by the users of this board deserves better
Cheers
Saphire

Trying to setup RAID 1 with new SATA drives on xserve 2009 model

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"Apple RAID Card
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I have both drives mounted on the desktop, as separate drives, but I really need to set these up as a RAID 1.
I've been reading other forums, where others have been able to get this to work by using a jumper on certain pins (5 & 6)of the drive to back down the transfer rate to 1.5 Gb per second. I tried that and it didn't work for me. Maybe I used the wrong pins -- I just don't know. I'm also wondering if there is some Apple firmware that is required on these drives? I'm asking for help from anyone who has gone through this same issue. Thanks in advance.

UPDATE -- I had an issue with the RAID card battery, it was dead and I have since replaced it. But I am still unable to setup the RAID 1 drive configuration. Does anyone know if it has something to do with the faster transfer rates on these new drives. Maybe they need to be clocked down with certain jumper settings on these Western Digital drives? Or am I fighting a losing battle because these drives don't have Apple firmware? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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