SATA RAID Controller not starting when SATA cable connected
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I've recently bought a Seagate Barracuda 500gb hard drive. There is currently a Parallel IDE 80gb hard drive installed.
The system works fine when the SATA cables are not connected. When I plug in the SATA cables to the hard drive I get this problem:
"This device cannot start. (Code 10)"
The card is a VIA Technologies VT6420 SATA RAID Controller there is also a VIA Technologies VT82xxxx EIDE Controller (All VIA Chipsets) in the system too.
In device manager and the hard drive doesn't show up in the BIOS. I am unsure as to what has caused the problem. Any suggestions?
You only have the 500GB on SATA and the 80GB on IDE, right?
Try disabling the RAID controller in the BIOS, see if that works. Oh, and if there's an SATA plug labeled "RAID" anything, don't plug it into that one, plug it into a different one.
There are no RAID options enabled in the BIOS. The ports on the motherboard are labelled SATA0 and SATA1. Again no mention of RAID.
Any other suggestions, thank you for you help Zero-Point
Dumb question, but does the SATA drive have the proper power connections?
So, wait, are you plugging the SATA hard drive into the RAID controller, despite the fact that you're not trying to use RAID? Why don't you just connect directly to the motherboard?
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;20104419]Dumb question, but does the SATA drive have the proper power connections?[/QUOTE]
The SATA drive has a power adapter attached to it and the PSU doesn't have a SATA output. And the drive is connected directly to the motherboard no into a RAID controller and there is no reference to RAID in the BIOS or on the motherboard.
The adaptor looks like this
[img]http://www.qvs.com/images/sata-power.JPG[/img]
Which SATA port are you plugged into? Granted, it shouldn't matter, but make sure you're plugged into SATA0.
Its currently plugged into SATA0.
[QUOTE=YodaEXE;20104463]So, wait, are you plugging the SATA hard drive into the RAID controller, despite the fact that you're not trying to use RAID? Why don't you just connect directly to the motherboard?[/QUOTE]
This.
Although I believe you are plugging directly into the motherboard I would still like a direct answer.
It's connected directly to the motherboard.
Hdd probably dead try a different pc.
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