A7v333 raid problems?

[michaelkahl]

I have an Asus A7V333 with the promise fasttrack raid pdc20276 chip. I have a wd ata100 60gb hdd and a maxtor ata133 60gb hdd. When I hit cntrl-f to get in the promise raid bios it says no disk detected press any key to reboot. What's the problem here. I set raid in the bios in the boot sequence. That was the only setting I found. Thanks

 

[BigL]

They are connected to the correct plugs on the board, right????

I have the same board, and I have had no problems with the raid.

 

[raz0469]

It's possible you just have them on a regular IDE channel because they are plugged into the wrong spot.

 

[michaelkahl]

I have them in the raid controller....i've had this board for a year now and i just enabled the raid jumper last night...i disabled it last august because it slowed the boot time when nothing was hooked up to it. i have each hdd plugged into its own channel on the raid controller and set to master. I've gone through everything in the bios. I'm exhuasting all possibilities.

 

[michaelkahl]

just got off the phone with asus they want to rma the board
o well 6 week wait

 

[michaelkahl]

Turns out it was a ground problem I have my raid 0 going now

 

[raz0469]

Ground problems are evil.

 

[El<(')>Maxi]

How did you discover the grounding problem?

Maxi: always curious of solutions to mysterious elec problems