On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the
> 1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been
> a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
>
> Apparently this card has a BIOS
Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the
1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been
a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
Apparently this card has a BIOS that is in 2 parts or maybe each on it
own chip. Their are 2 o
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> Also I don't see any evidence this upgrade would make the card work
>> with those 750 drives.
Paul replied:
> You could perhaps try giving Adaptec a call or e-mail and see if
> anyone there can tell you what that controller supports, since their
> website doesn't really s
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
>> Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the
>> chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is
>> 4.2.84. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/
>
> After downloading the
Paul Hartman writes:
> Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the
> chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is
> 4.2.84. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/
After downloading the bios upgrade and trying to figure out how to use
it from the i
Paul Hartman writes:
>> So installed jumper on 5-6 and booted up. I still get the same kind of
>> hang at the point where the adaptec PCI card throws up a screen.
>>
>> Press F3 to enter configuration utility
>>Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah 19082 MB <= old 200gb drive
>> Secondar
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>
>>> Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than
>>> 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
>>
>> There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mention
Harry Putnam writes:
>> Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than
>> 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
>
> There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mentioned
> on the drive about using pins is this:
>
> Jumpered pi
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk.
>>
>> Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on
>> first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI
>>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk.
>
> Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on
> first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI
> sata controller (Adeptec 1205s
Anthony Metcalf writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
[...]
>>
> Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to
> before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk
>
> Can you manually alter the order it tries disks?
I can, and it is set directly to boot from master on
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