So I finally made the decision to get a sata drive. Got the Seagate ST3300831AS in friday and went to install it but have had problems trying to get the system to pickup the drive as master.
I installed the Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid Drivers on the DFI Lan Party Ultra B board and got the drive to work and copied my c:/ to the new 300gb. Then shutdown the pc and unplugged the master hd which was IDE and attempted to turn the system back on but it wouldnt find the SATA hard drive. I notice it reads the SATA drive in the raid config during startup.
After doing research on dfi-street.com I noticed a couple other people had the same problem and I used there advice:
Set BIOS to:
S-ATA or SCSI Card BOOT S-ATA
First Boot Device - SATA-0 (missing, the closest thing to sata is scsi)
Second Boot Device - CDROM
Third Boot Device - Floppy
Sil3114 S-ATA Control SATA (Non RAID for single HDD)
but still nothing, I think it might have something to do with SATA-0 not being in the boot device options. Also now when I startup the system it says Mass Storage Controller and doesnt read the drive again but when looking in the device manager the recently installed Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid Driver is no longer there but before installing the drivers for that it was called "Raid Controller", another obstacle.
I installed the Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid Drivers on the DFI Lan Party Ultra B board and got the drive to work and copied my c:/ to the new 300gb. Then shutdown the pc and unplugged the master hd which was IDE and attempted to turn the system back on but it wouldnt find the SATA hard drive. I notice it reads the SATA drive in the raid config during startup.
After doing research on dfi-street.com I noticed a couple other people had the same problem and I used there advice:
Set BIOS to:
S-ATA or SCSI Card BOOT S-ATA
First Boot Device - SATA-0 (missing, the closest thing to sata is scsi)
Second Boot Device - CDROM
Third Boot Device - Floppy
Sil3114 S-ATA Control SATA (Non RAID for single HDD)
but still nothing, I think it might have something to do with SATA-0 not being in the boot device options. Also now when I startup the system it says Mass Storage Controller and doesnt read the drive again but when looking in the device manager the recently installed Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid Driver is no longer there but before installing the drivers for that it was called "Raid Controller", another obstacle.