Bypass PCI SATA add on card

[MikeCoyne]

Hi guys!

I'm pretty new to this board so hello to all of you!

I recently built myself a new PC with two Serial ATA hard drives. A few days ago I added another storage hard drive by installing a Serial ATA PCI add on card. I installed the new SATA onto it and that threw up a problem - on startup the PC is now looking just at the PCI SATA card channels for a bootable drive, and totally ignoring the bootable SATA drive plugged into one of the channels on the motherboard. In the BIOS there is the option of booting from drives 0, 1, 2 or 3. I've tried all of them but it doesn't make any difference! I tried plugging the bootable drive into the PCI card for a time but that's obviously not ideal as the drive will be limited by the 133MBps data rate that the PCI bus allows. OK for a storage drive but don't want to limit performance on the OS drive! Any ideas on how I can make the PC boot from the m/b SATA channel instead of the one on the PCI card?

Cheers guys, hope you can help!
Mike

 

[satrow]

During the boot sequence is there a line that says something like 'ctrl+A to set boot options' or ANY new line in the boot up screen since you added the card? What happens if no drives are attached to the card?

Andy.

 

[MikeCoyne]

Hi Andy!

When the card is installed with no drives connected the system boots up - the two new channels are also listed on startup saying "No Drive Found" for each channel. The only difference is that when the Windows XP logo fades in, there is a noticable glitch which does not happen when the card is not installed.

When I connect my new storage drive to either of the channels on the SATA PCI add on card, I get this error on startup:

Verifying DMI Pool Data...........
Boot from CD :
Boot from CD :
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Any ideas!?

By the way, the SATA card is an InnoVISION DM-8301.

Cheers!
Mike

 

[satrow]

Mike, I can't think what this is. Googled this

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/18436/

but I guess you did too. Anything on the Innovision site; firmware perhaps. If you don't find an answer over the weekend, I suggest you RMA it and get a different brand.
Some reviews here for the 'h' version.

Andy.

 

[satrow]

The here meaning I forgot to put the link in; here it is

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=55943

Andy.