ASUS P5AD2-E Premium + 5 SATA

[ajocius]

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Have difficulty with 5th SATA drive I want to connect to ASUS P5AD2-E Premium. Reason I put this threat in Hovedkort area, since I believem problem lies in Silicon Image controller drivers (integrated to this MOBO) rather than HDD itself.

 

Facts:

 

If I use F8 during startup it comes up with menu of all available drives. My MAxtor MAxline III 300gb is in the list. I understand BIOS detects HDD. I boot from another drive connected directly to SATA connector.

 

Once XP is started, I open device manager, find Silicon Image Controller and look at properties. Under Device info I find my HDD details.

 

Looking into disk manager. Can't see new HDD appearing there. It is not detected by Partition Magic either.

 

Once I have installed 3114 driver for Silicon Image Controller, it put some Java SATARaid program into start up directory. It is supposed to start every time PC starts. However, when I restart pc and it opens this Java SATARaid program, system shuts down and restarts. Tried couple of times, every time system shuts down on Java SATA Raid startup. Then I try to remove Java SATA Raid program from start up while XP is loading. Managed to do that, PC didn't crash, and also JAva SATA Raid started. I understand this is utility software that should help me to enable that SATA HDD plugged into SATA RAID connector on Silicon Image Controller. However this was the only time I managed to open this program. It is no longer in start up, but if I try to open it manually, it shuts the system down.

 

It is either some compatibility problem of that utility software or I miss some drivers. Does anyone have experience with utilizing Silicon Image Controller on this MOBO?

[ajocius]

Searched drivers and that is what I found:

 

Original mobo CD contains: Silicon Image SATA Driver

 

When I checked Device Manager within Control Panel, I see: Silicon Image SiI 3114 Soft Raid 5 Controller

 

Checked ASUS webpage for driver downloads for my mobo P5AD2-E Premium. There I found:

SATA Raid driver;

Silicon Image Serial ATA IDE Driver V1.0.0.7 and RAID driver V1.0.0.7;

Silicon Image Serial ATA RAID5 Driver V 0.0.0.14 and Utility

 

Not to mention available number of various drivers on Silicon Image web page for 3114 controller..... (the one integrated into mobo). But I do not focus on them, as someone adviced, that mobo drivers should cover controllers as well.

 

Should I install one of above??