I installed a SATA RAID adapter in a friend's computer over the weekend because his IDE drive died. I suggested to go with a SATA RAID 1 setup for better performance and hardware based backup solution.
I ran into one problem after another with this thing. After finally getting a stable WinXP installation running, he can't use any USB devices, albeit the mouse. He tried his LaCie external USB 2.0 drive and XP wouldn't recognize the drive, although it did before, pre-SATA setup. So he tried to install the software, it crashed the computer. Tried to restart, while drive plugged in, and got a DMI blue screen of death at boot-up. Restarted without the USB drive connected: worked fine.
He tried a USB flash stick, Windows doesn't see it.
The SATA adapter is a cheap small companie hardware. Can't remember their name, but their website is ridiculous. I don't understand that the SATA adapter would be defective: the RAID 0 drives are working great and Windows is working very well. Could it be a resource conflict? Is it even possible to fix this? I moved the adapter to a different PCI slot, no difference.
I ran into one problem after another with this thing. After finally getting a stable WinXP installation running, he can't use any USB devices, albeit the mouse. He tried his LaCie external USB 2.0 drive and XP wouldn't recognize the drive, although it did before, pre-SATA setup. So he tried to install the software, it crashed the computer. Tried to restart, while drive plugged in, and got a DMI blue screen of death at boot-up. Restarted without the USB drive connected: worked fine.
He tried a USB flash stick, Windows doesn't see it.
The SATA adapter is a cheap small companie hardware. Can't remember their name, but their website is ridiculous. I don't understand that the SATA adapter would be defective: the RAID 0 drives are working great and Windows is working very well. Could it be a resource conflict? Is it even possible to fix this? I moved the adapter to a different PCI slot, no difference.