Epia En12000eg Sata Drive Not Recognized

[chattycow]

Hello All,
I have a couple of SATA drives that appear not to be recongnized by the Bios of an EPIA EN12000EG board.

What can I do so that they will be recognized?
Will a BIOS upgrade help?
What drives are compatible? If not all?

BOARD: EPIA EN12000EG (with 2 SATA connectors)
DRIVES: Barracuda ES.2 drive (MFG.Part# ST31000340NS)

Please help!

Thanks.

[Matt3o]

are you using RAID or IDE mode in your bios?

Try to load bios fail safe settings and see if your HD got recognized. I myself have a barracuda drive and it works like a charm.

[chattycow]

Originally Posted by Matt3o

are you using RAID or IDE mode in your bios?

Try to load bios fail safe settings and see if your HD got recognized. I myself have a barracuda drive and it works like a charm.

I have tried in both IDE and RAID modes, but neither recognized the drives.
OK...I'll give the failsafe settings a try.
Can you tell me what drive model you have? Is it 1 Terabyte in size?

Thanks for the help....

[chattycow]

Originally Posted by chattycow

I have tried in both IDE and RAID modes, but neither recognized the drives.
OK...I'll give the failsafe settings a try.
Can you tell me what drive model you have? Is it 1 Terabyte in size?

Thanks for the help....

Also, are you using the EPIA EN12000EG (with 2 SATA connectors) board?

Thanks...

[Matt3o]

Yes, I have the en12000eg (2 sata) but a smaller 500gb HD (sorry didn't notice your HD model #).

I also found this
ClarkConnect Forums: SIOCSIFFLAGS - Device or Resource Busy

so it seems that someone uses your same configuration.

Can you test the HD on another PC or another HD on your board? Did the failsafe config work?

[chattycow]

Yeah, I got a 500GB Maxtor drive to work no problem in the past.
I have 3 of these drives brand new and none of them are recognized on this board. I have 2 other EPIA EN12000EG boards that I can try with, but haven't had a chance yet.

Hopefully the ClarkConnect post isn't getting the SIOCSIFFLAGS error because of an IRQ conflict with the bigger drives, and it really does work.

I might give it a try tonight or over the weekend.
I'll update this post as I do my testing.

Thanks.