On page 2-12 of the K9A2 Platinum Series MS-7376 (v1.X) Mainboard manual (when in doubt RTFM, right?) I see that SATA connectors 5 and 6 are supported by the PromiseT3? So back to the October question, is it the Promise controller that handles the external ports? And if so how do I enable it without blowing everything up? I did load the Promise driver set, no impact one way or the other, but as the device is currently disabled in setup, no surprise there.ģ. I have all the current drivers now on my HD in a subdirectory, on my remote drive and on a CD. Cutting a long (3hr) story short I ended up loading the W7 SB600 drivers in system repair mode which allowed me to restore from a W7 system image I had made the night before. Fastbuild opened but was inop after I enabled Promise. Why did enabling the Promise apparently trash my RAID drivers? I could see the RAID in POST and Fastbuild was available. Thereafter my PC would POST, start boot then blue screen into a repetative boot sequence. This was not, apparently a smart thing to do. the Promise controller dealing with the external eSATA ports, I happened to notice last night that it was disabled in setup, so, figuring if it didn't help I could just go back to the old setting, I enabled it. I ask because, based on the reply from October last year re. May I ask what the impact of changing that setting is? Specifically, what will it do to my existing RAID 1 array, from which I boot? Anything? Nothing? Completely trash it? I am very new to working with RAID controllers.Ģ. Is this where you are saying I should enable AHCI and this will enable my eSATA ports? (pls see later notes re SATA5 SATA6) Generic PnP Monitor on ATI Radeon HD 3870ġ000GB MICRONET FANTOM DRIVE IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device (1394)ħ49GB ATI 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 SCSI Disk Device (SCSI) MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7376 (CPU 1) I really would like to get these drives running eSATA. I do have the XP and Vista CDs with the MSI drivers on them that the builder (Powermax) gave me. I am reluctant to falsh the bios with an MSI update as everything is working otherwise. I am not the experienced with setting up RAID, FYI. Reading the old topic I went to Fastbuild but could not see the drive attached via the eSATA port to add. The only difference with the LAcie drive is that my PC did try to load a PCI device driver. It works fine USB or FW, but is not recognized eSATA. In that OS the GForce works fine USB or FW but is not recognized at all when plugged into either of the eSATA ports. When I got my PC it was running XP Pro 32. Both are 1TB and, luckily, have USB, FW and eSATA ports. I have two eSATA external drives, one a Lacie, the other a GForce. I have the same problem as the user who posted on this topic in Oct last year.
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