Chris Wilson Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 Could it be an IRQ clash be between the two controllers? Control Panel : System : Blah Blah shows no conflicts, and the two drivers are there and working. I have downloaded updated drivers, to no avail, and tried the card in another PCI slot. I suspect the BIOS on the SATA card may need updating, have seen reference to this on Google, but I can't see any BIOS updates anywhere, including the manufaturers home site http://www.uli.com.tw under M5283 . BIOS on it now is 1.14 Thanks Wes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I've not read the entire thread, but have you got the option to set the jumper on the new HDD to slave rather than primary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terawua Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I remember from PC building days that the IRQ was allocated according to the slots. Some motherboards would allocate a lower IRQ to the slot further towards the edge of the motherboard - no idea why, thats just what seemed to happen. Just maybe putting it in the end slot may help, but I think you already said that there were no IRQ conflicts The alternative option is to get onto the SATA card manufacturers website and search and see if there is a way to make the add-on card non-bootable so that it just ignores it and boots in the normal way. If I have misunderstood, or not helped at all, apologies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 I've not read the entire thread, but have you got the option to set the jumper on the new HDD to slave rather than primary? AFAIK SATA drives do not have these jumpers, but I may well be wrong. Anyway, THIS one doesn't Thanks anyway, wish it was something that simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Try updating the drivers first to Win2K from their site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 This pdf describes some details related to the installation of the M5283, open it and go to page 98 of 123 and substitute the file locations for yours. As a question, do you get a ALI screen on startup? http://www.soyo.com.tw/dl/manuals/k8/mk8usa%2012.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 you shouldn't partition a raid 0 configuration.. if something happens to your raid configuration, you will loose data on all your partitions! RAID 0 is for speed, data storage should be placed on another physical drive. Yes - you do increase the risk by 50% of failure. Current Seagate meant time failure rate (or something) is 0.7% per year. I don't think it has one! Can't see one anyway. Thanks for the idea though. Silly question here; There is an IDE connnector socket on the SATA card, should this be connected to the IDE cables, which currently go to 2 IDE CD drives? As it is I have nothing going to the cards IDE socket, I assumed, maybe wrongly, that all the "info" came via the PCI card socket? I can't remember 100% but I seem to remember it saying something on the top of the drive about it? Leave the IDE sockets on the card alone with nothing on them. I am wondering if what I want to do is impossible with this card, and that is to keep the existing on board Sil ports running a 2 disk RAID 0 Striped set, and use the add on card to run the new single disk as extra storage, and eventually to load Ubuntu linux onto it. I am getting the feeling this card NEEDS 2 drives connected to it, in a RAID, and won't work with just one drive? Thanks for any reply, my level of knowledge of this is very scanty! What version of Ubuntu is it? The latest? The card does not need two drives on it to function properly. You just configure the RAID as a single drive stripe and that's fine. I've not read the entire thread, but have you got the option to set the jumper on the new HDD to slave rather than primary? Noooooo! This is for IDE only. You only have one drive on a SATA channel. I doubt IRQ conflicts. I'll give you call Chris. Either we can swap your drive for an IDE one and solve all these problems (but a shame for the future), or we'll get Ubuntu working on it with a dual boot somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 I have removed the card, I found on Google loads of people failed to get it to work with a single drive, as there is no bios option to do this. My sanity was going, I was up to 2.00 AM last night, I have given up I found an old 6.something gig IBM IDE drive, hung it on the IDE cable and loaded Ubuntu. Although it worked fine run from a CD it hangs on install at 87% whilst "setting the clock" Mouse freezes, bugger all happens. Burnt a fresh CD from a fresh download of the iso, same thing. I am not having much luck with this. I will download an earlier version and try that, if that fails then I will accept that Linux and I are not meant to be Thanks for all the help everyone, I think I'll stick to spannering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 2am! You weren't REALLY trying then I've had so many late nights cocking about with this sort of nonsense in the past. It's maddening when you've got nowhere after so long. Try another flavour such as CentOS (RedHat base)? I'll ask the tech guys on Monday about that card and whether it works ok with one drive. I'm sure it should. I will of course happily refund if it's a dead loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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