SATA driver fails, ASUS A7V600-X

Dear all,

I have an ASUS A7V600-X board with Award Bios (updated to the latest
available version), and with VT8377/VT8237 North- and Southbridge.

Now I would like to use a SATA II harddrive. It is a Hitachi 500 GB
drive: HI T7K500 500 SA. I know that VT8237 may have problems with SATA
II. But at the moment, even windows XP is not correctly starting the VIA
Raid/SCSI device. I have tried to install different versions of the
corresponding VIA drivers for VT8237. But in Windows device manager, I
see that it is not started but failed. In the readme.txt of the driver,
I found in a folder BIOS two rom files (e.g. 6420R230.rom), and a note
that it is a SATA RAID BIOS. Later it in this file I found

"Make sure VT6420 BIOS is executed by the system BIOS when POST."

But I don't know (1) how to check that this BIOS is executed and if
not, (2) how to tell the BIOS that it should execute this.

Moreover, in the BIOS I cannot find any settings releated to the
onboard SATA interface.

Does anyone have an idea, how I can get access to the SATA II drive?

Thank you very!
Best regards
Pucicu


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