Hi,
My machine currently has 2 regular hard drives.  One of the hard drives 
started going bad, so I needed to replace it.
The motherboard does SATA, so I figured I'd get a SATA drive since 
they've come down in price.  I got a nice 320 Gig drive from seagate, 
put it into the machine and ... windows doesn't see it.
Linux see's it just fine, so I partitioned it in the linux side for 
windows because windows often has a hard time with blank drives, but no 
luck.
My motherboard has two SATA controllers.  One is VIA, and the other is a 
Promise Fasttrack.  I have tried putting the drive on both controllers. 
  I've put on the drivers from my motherboard CD.  Still nothing.
The only indication I get that something is on there is the VIA comes 
with a RAID confuration program.  It shows the drive, even gives lots of 
details, but Windows just won't do anything with it.
Oh, and when the drive was on the promise controller, I tried it doing 
RAID and doing the Plain IDE.  Neither worked.
Oh, this is Windows XP, if that's important.
I guess if I can't get it to see the drive, I'll just use the whole 
drive for Linux and forget about my Windows.

Any ideas?

Troy

p.s. Yes, this currently is happening to me, I'm not making this up.
p.p.s. No, I don't really expect anybody to really answer this.  I just 
couldn't resist sending this considering the number of "it works on 
windows why not linux" e-mails we get.
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Fermilab  ComputingDivision/CSS  CSI Group
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