Hi, I am desperate to find out how to setup a SATA drive as a single system drive and (or) slave drive with an IDE as master.
The event so far is: As I have unsuccessfully tried this before I have an experimental setup where I can do no damage to any data, spare PC old 40 Gig IDE Seagate drive + new 80 Gig SATA Seagate connected to PCI SATA – IDE Combo Controller.
Installed and running very smooth XP Pro Slipstreamed SP3 + Slipstreamed nLite SATA Driver Pack including WinXP Promise Fast Track 376 Controller on IDE drive.
At this stage Windows can not see the SATA drive. On boot up Promise Fast Track 376 shows up and pressing Ctrl – F will bring up the Promise Fast Track Utility with the 5 segments.
I have been told that for the setup that I want I can not use Stripe or Mirror. Auto Setup [1] shows Optimize Array for Performance, “Mode Stripe” and it shows up my 80 Gig SATA drive, drive(s) used in Array 1. But this is not what I believe I require but I can see nothing anywhere where I can change that to single drive setup.
I do have downloaded in case I need to do a Floppy F6 setup the promise drivers Fast Track 376 -378 -1.00.1.39 – 41. If anyone can guide me from here on I would be eternally grateful.
Bill
