Bela Lugosi

Hallo,

Ich bekomme es einfach nicht hin meine Neue Samsung HD103UJ Sata Festplatte (1000GB) mit meinem Asus A7N8X E Deluxe zum laufen zu bekommen. Hatte bisher nur IDE Festplatten drin.

- Sata Jumper auf dem Board stehen auf Enabled
- neuste bios Version ist drauf (Rev 1013)

Dann hab ich im BIOS eingestellt das er von CDROM laden soll um Windows XP zu installieren. Aber wenn ich die Sata Platte angeschlossen habe, bootet er weder von CD noch von der IDE Festplatte, sondern bleibt immer am Anfang stehen und zeigt mir folgendes:



Er erkennt die Platte also. Doch ich komme mit den Tasten nicht in die Raid Utility um da irgendwas umzustellen. Im Bios hab ich "Raid or SCSI Card boot" auf SCSI Card stehen, sonst hab ich nix gefunden um etwas mit Raid ein oder auszustellen. Habe ja mit meiner einen Sata Festplatte nicht vor überhaupt ein Raid-Verband anzulegen. Ausschalten kann man Raid imho ja nur in den Raid Utilitys, doch da komm ich ja nicht rein. ^^

Ich probier schon über ne Woche, hoffe ihr könnt mir nen Tip geben.

Da ich eher ein Noob auf dem Gebiet bin, hab ich mal meine Bios Einstellungen fotografiert. Vielleicht fällt euch ja was auf:




Gruß,
ein ratloser Bela ?(

xxsawer

Hi

Weil ich nicht so gut Deutsch spreche schreibe ich die Antword besser in Englisch

I had exactly the same problem...
So, whats the problem? The problem is that the Sata raid bios (4.2.47) dos NOT support so large hard disks. There is new sata bios released (btw which already supports such huge disks - you can download it from the Silicon Image web site, BUT this bios is intended for PCI cards only). Updating to last motherboard bios will not help because this bios has still 4.2.47 sata bios in it...
So what is the solution? The solution is to buy some Sata controller and put it into PCI slot. I suggest to look after Kouwell solution I bought Kouwell 571S

Last note...there IS a way how to make your disk working without buying the controller but I DO NOT recommend that sollution so I will not mention it here...If you will be still interested, write an answer here...

Dan

michael1000

Hallo,
warum Raid-Verbund??
Steck die SATA in einen Sata-Slot und nicht in ein Sata-Raid-Slot...
Viele Systeme wollen zudem einfach nicht, dass SATA und IDE zusamen arbeiten! Hier würde ich nur die Sata einmal anschließen und sehen was der PC dann sagt!

Sata-Controller in einen PCI-Slot funktioniert, ist aber totaler Blödsinn (Flaschenhals)!!! PCI-Express wär hier vorteilhafter - wenns die gibt?!

Dann könnte es noch sein, dass - wegen der älteren Baureihe (?), ein Chipsatz-Update von Nöten wär?!!
Gruß Michael

BorisS

gerde geloest :-))))

I had the same problem, after installing the modified Über BIOS (by NeoPolus -> v4.2.83 SATA) everything works perfectly. I used the ASUS update mechanism from a WINDOWS system, which I had to install as I've no floppy disk and usually I am running Linux.

Hope that helps,
Boris

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
SATA
1TB
1000GB
CTRL + S F4 hangs


http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/uber...a-vt69351.html

xxsawer

Ok, I would like to write something...
first to: michael1000
It is nonsence what you are telling...there is no raid sata slot different from sata slot ) In this motherboard are just two sata slots which can be also used to build raid array...and now just paste of what I already wrote to some ather forum, it is a description how to create your own modified bios...

Download the official bios from Asus web sites (1013 is the latest version), then download official sata controller bios from Silicon Image web site (4284 is the latest version). Just a notice here...you dont have to download the latest sata controller bios, large hard drives are supported from earlier versions already, I am not sure what version is it so check the notes to each bios release
Then there is a utility called CBDROM (I have version 6.06). The truth is that the sata bios is included in the motherboard bios and not only this bios, there is much more as you will see.
So now, lets put all these files in one folder (CBDROM probably does not support spaces in the path...) launch the command line and run following:

CBROM606.EXE C18E1013.BIN /d

This will show you all components of the bios file, you should get similar list:

No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================== ==============================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 12D05h(75.25K) c18e1013.bin
1. XGROUP CODE 0C710h(49.77K) 087A6h(33.91K) awardext.rom
2. ACPI table 046AFh(17.67K) 018A6h(6.16K) ACPITBL.BIN
3. EPA pattern 0168Ch(5.64K) 002AAh(0.67K) AwardBmp.bmp
4. YGROUP ROM 06D70h(27.36K) 044A4h(17.16K) awardeyt.rom
5. Other(4029:0000) 05A70h(22.61K) 02708h(9.76K) _EN_CODE.BIN
6. PCI driver[A] 0A800h(42.00K) 056BEh(21.69K) 4247.BIN
7. PCI driver[B] 10000h(64.00K) 07593h(29.39K) NVPXES.NIC
8. PCI driver[C] 0F800h(62.00K) 088F5h(34.24K) Marvel.BIN
9. OEM0 CODE 08B90h(34.89K) 006FAh(1.74K) BSMICODE.ROM
10. LOGO BitMap 4B30Ch(300.76K) 1A275h(104.61K) A7N8X-E0.BMP
11. Flash ROM 0A0E7h(40.23K) 057DEh(21.97K) AWDFLASH.EXE
12. VRS ROM 02280h(8.62K) 014BBh(5.18K) ANTI_VIR.BIN

Total compress code space = 5D000h(372.00K)
Total compressed code size = 5A6F5h(361.74K)
Remain compress code space = 0290Bh(10.26K)

As you can see under bullet 6. included sata bios version is 4247
Now you have to delete this version by running this command:

CBROM606.EXE C18E1013.BIN /pci release

You will be asked for letter of "Driver" you want to release (so in this case it is A)
D:\test\BIOS_M~1>CBROM606.EXE C18E1013.BIN /pci release
CBROM V6.06 (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved.
PCI driver - - - [A] : 4247.BIN
PCI driver - - - [B] : NVPXES.NIC
PCI driver - - - [C] : Marvel.BIN
Enter a choice:A
[PCI-A] ROM is release

Now you have to insert the sata bios, using this command:

CBROM606.EXE C18E1013.BIN /pci 4284.bin

And this is it...
You can check if you were sucessfull, so run again:

CBROM606.EXE C18E1013.BIN /d

You should see screen similar to this:

No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================== =======================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 12D05h(75.25K) c18e1013.bin
1. XGROUP CODE 0C710h(49.77K) 087A6h(33.91K) awardext.rom
2. ACPI table 046AFh(17.67K) 018A6h(6.16K) ACPITBL.BIN
3. EPA pattern 0168Ch(5.64K) 002AAh(0.67K) AwardBmp.bmp
4. YGROUP ROM 06D70h(27.36K) 044A4h(17.16K) awardeyt.rom
5. Other(4029:0000) 05A70h(22.61K) 02708h(9.76K) _EN_CODE.BIN
6. PCI driver[B] 10000h(64.00K) 07593h(29.39K) NVPXES.NIC
7. PCI driver[C] 0F800h(62.00K) 088F5h(34.24K) Marvel.BIN
8. OEM0 CODE 08B90h(34.89K) 006FAh(1.74K) BSMICODE.ROM
9. LOGO BitMap 4B30Ch(300.76K) 1A275h(104.61K) A7N8X-E0.BMP
10. Flash ROM 0A0E7h(40.23K) 057DEh(21.97K) AWDFLASH.EXE
11. VRS ROM 02280h(8.62K) 014BBh(5.18K) ANTI_VIR.BIN
12. PCI driver[A] 0A800h(42.00K) 05621h(21.53K) 4284.bin

Now just flash your bios and it should work

Why do I not recomend this? The PCI sata controller cost just few Euro, I know...its an old hardware so every next Euro invested to it is pain but...
I was lazy to make "my own" bios as I wrote above, so I downloaded Trats bios. It is modified official bios with 4283 sata bios included. Besides there is included new sata bios there are some additional modifications, I dont know exactly what modifications...I flashed it and didnt boot again... I red that some people had problems with this bios, so I prepared discette with backup original bios to flash it in case of some troubles...
My problem was I could not boot from any sata drive!!! I always fot NTLDR not found error. I tried to reinstall OS but again I could not boot from it, so the installation was not complete...OK, I decided to flash it from the discette. The discette either wasnt read at all and the drive made terrible noises or when it was read the I got Checksum error. The discette was readable in OS and the discette drive was also working perfectly in OS. OK so I tried another 4 discettes...same result. The DOS flash utility was probably corrupted or something...I was becoming desperate...At lease I had Knoppix burned on DVD so I booted from it, and downloaded all official bioses from asus website and tried one after another. And...one of them was finally working...UF...
But now the best...I can not explain this...The bios was not flashed fully!!! Although the bios version was different, sata bios version as well, system booted normally...BUT, the bios settings I made befor this flash remained the same!!! also there was no post reporter, no logo...After I finished reinstall of win xp I flashed bios again from win and now finally everything was on its place...
If you have some reasonable explanation for this, I am listening...

Conclusion
My troubles were maybe because I didnt do this bios by myself and used some modified bios instead of it, but maybe not... Many people wrote it is working...If you will decide to test it, let me know how successfull you were.
The question is, if you would somehow extract the sata bios from the original Asus bios, then download the same bios from Silicon Image web sites and compare these two files, would they be identical??? Or is Asus somehow modifying this bios before including it??? I dont know...

BTW if you will be successfull with flashing, you will maybe want not to have latest sata bios version. Why? In the bios I tested was 4283 sata bios and it was waiting for 10s for keypress to enter that RAID utility and after that it continued with "booting". So this would really slow down your system start...

So, let me know how successfull you were, I am now waiting for that controller (should come this week), maybe I am coward, but I dont have enough courage to test it again with "my" modified bios

Dan

a7n_updater

Super Anleitung!

Es hat einwandfrei mit einer 1TB Samsung Festplatte funktioniert!!!!

Grüsse

tux2011

Habe es bei mir auch versucht mit dem aktuellstem SATA-BIOS 4402.bin... Aber die Festplatte (1T Seagate Barracuda) wird irgendwie nicht erkannt?!

Gruß,
Pascal


Ergänzung vom 31.08.11: ups, da war noch was... Der Jumper für SATA stand auf "disabled". So klappt es wunderbar:
- SATA Jumper von Mainboard auf "enabled"
- im BIOS unter "Advanced BIOS Features" Option "RAID" auf "SCSI" gestellt
- im RAID Configuration Utility nix eingestellt
Festplatte wird unter Linux erkannt und kann per YAST formatiert und partitioniert werden.


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Betriebssystem: Linux Opensuse 11.3

xandros

Wo wird die Festplatte nicht erkannt?
Bereits im BIOS oder nur vom Betriebssystem nicht?
Wenn der Fehler bereits im BIOS auftritt.... moeglicherweise ist die Festplatte defekt. Mal an einem anderen Rechner ausprobieren - es reicht ja, wenn man da lediglich die Erkennung vom BIOS ueberprueft.
Wenn das Problem im Betriebssystem auftritt: Wurde die Platte unter Linux auch korrekt gemountet?