Problem with a HD controller

[Christoph]

I recently purchased a Belkin Ultra ATA/133 PCI controller
card on the secondary market. It turns out this is not just an
IDE controller but a RAID controller as well. There is only
one jumper on the card and it says "IDE out/RAID in". In the
docs, it mentiones nothing about the jumper. As an aside,
since I want to use it as an IDE controller, I took the jumper
out. It didn't behave any differently than when the jumper was
in.
In any case, I plug the card in, connect it to a new 40gb maxtor
drive and install the driver. Everything is all well and good. The
PC detects the card and the drive and the card creates a SET
(I'm not entirely too sure what that is, something to do with RAID
or SCSI, *shrug*) of just the one drive. After XP loads up,
Explorer doesn't see the drive. When I go into the Device Manager,
click on 'Disk Drives', I see it there as the same name as the SET
(IC35L060 AVV207-0 SCSI Disk Drive). And in the Device
Manager, it's showing that everything with the drive is alright. So
why can't I see it as a drive in Explorer? I know I need to format
it, but generally I can do that from Explorer and have with my
other drives.
Is there something special I need to do because it's a SCSI/RAID
controller? Do I have to have a second drive connected to it for
XP to see the drive(s)?
Any ideas or suggestions as to what I need to do would be greatly
appreciated!!

Christoph

[Cyberbear]

"Christoph" > wrote in message
...
> I recently purchased a Belkin Ultra ATA/133 PCI controller
> card on the secondary market. It turns out this is not just an
> IDE controller but a RAID controller as well. There is only
> one jumper on the card and it says "IDE out/RAID in". In the
> docs, it mentiones nothing about the jumper. As an aside,
> since I want to use it as an IDE controller, I took the jumper
> out. It didn't behave any differently than when the jumper was
> in.
> In any case, I plug the card in, connect it to a new 40gb
maxtor
> drive and install the driver. Everything is all well and good.
The
> PC detects the card and the drive and the card creates a SET
> (I'm not entirely too sure what that is, something to do with
RAID
> or SCSI, *shrug*) of just the one drive. After XP loads up,
> Explorer doesn't see the drive. When I go into the Device
Manager,
> click on 'Disk Drives', I see it there as the same name as the
SET
> (IC35L060 AVV207-0 SCSI Disk Drive). And in the Device
> Manager, it's showing that everything with the drive is
alright. So
> why can't I see it as a drive in Explorer? I know I need to
format
> it, but generally I can do that from Explorer and have with my
> other drives.
> Is there something special I need to do because it's a
SCSI/RAID
> controller? Do I have to have a second drive connected to it
for
> XP to see the drive(s)?
> Any ideas or suggestions as to what I need to do would be
greatly
> appreciated!!
>
> Christoph
>

Try going to Computer management >> Disk management. Identify
your new drive, create a partition, and then format. It should
then show up in explorer.


>

[Christoph]

> Try going to Computer management >> Disk management. Identify
> your new drive, create a partition, and then format. It should
> then show up in explorer.

That worked perfectly. Thank you very much!!
Out of curiosity, why did I have to do these tasks for the disk on my
new controller when I've not ever had to do it in the past with new
disks. Is it because I'm not using an onboard controller?

Christoph