Silicon Image Sil 0680 ATA/133 controller help

I recently bought a Silicon Image Sil 0680 ATA/133 controller to replace a dead Maxtor SATA/150 controller, To run a couple of older drives. Since my Motherboard has enough SATA ports on it for me, I was not concerned about getting a replacement controller card with SATA. I chose the new controller card since it claims to be able to handle up to 4 IDE devices.
Currently I only have 2 15gb drives attached to it. All seems to work OK until I wanted to format one of the drives. I got an error message?? Never had this problem with my old Maxtor controler... (nor will the new card read SMART ???) Any ideas??? Ive tried every thing I can think of...

And just in case it helps here is the list of features off the box....

Any ideas anyone??????

Have you installed the non raid drivers in Windows? Thay are specific to being non raid, it also appears to be Vista. Make sure that the drivers match the bios. have you entered the 0680 bios and set up the drives as non raid?

Have you installed the non raid drivers in Windows? Thay are specific to being non raid, it also appears to be Vista. Make sure that the drivers match the bios. have you entered the 0680 bios and set up the drives as non raid?

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I will check....