Promise FastTrak 376 IDE with Windows 2003

[Athfar]

Hello,

I thought I'd give one last try at trying to solve this controller problem before I just stick a PCI controller card in...

A friend of mine gave me a MSI K7N2 to replace my old VIA motherboard... The motherboard has the promise fasttrak 376 controller that supports 2 SATA connections and an IDE3...

Now, I have tried setting no RAID array (I only have one drive on the controller) and booting using the drivers provided on MSI's website (Driver version: 1.0.0.19) and also just for fun tried the ASUS drivers (Driver version: 1.0.0.8) for the A7V8X (same controller)...

- - MSI Drivers - -

The MSI driver seems to install fine, and does allow the contoller to list Disk Drives, but it's not working properly. Normally I think you have to set a drive to RAID 0 in the contoller bios, so I tried this and windows went from about 4 ticks (complete revolutions of the bar at startup) to maybe 20? Not only that, if I try to goto Disk Management it takes quite a long time to "Connect to Logical Disk Manager service." "SCSI Raid 0+1 Drive" shows up under the drives, but not under Disk Management.

- - Asus Drivers - -

These work properly with the RAID striped, but still the 20x ticks and slow getting to the Disk Management applies.

- - Either - -

Both will show the drive as "Unreadable" in Disk Management if the drive is not set to RAID 0 in the controller BIOS. Also, I tried to put a CDROM drive on it too without success, it just tells you that no HDDs were found in the controller bios and backs out.

HWIDs

Win XP Promise FastTrak 376 Controller
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376&SUBSYS_6620105A&REV_02
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376&SUBSYS_6620105A
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376&CC_010400
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376&CC_0104

Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device
SCSI\DiskPromise_1+0_Stripe/RAID01.10
SCSI\DiskPromise_1+0_Stripe/RAID0
SCSI\DiskPromise_
SCSI\Promise_1+0_Stripe/RAID01
Promise_1+0_Stripe/RAID01
GenDisk

Edited February 3, 2006 by Athfar