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SATA DVD-RW drive not recognized?
Name: Lotos1 Date: October 4, 2008 at 19:06:16 Pacific OS: Windows Server 2003 CPU/Ram: Intel Xeon, 8GB Product: Supermicro
Comment:
I installed 3 Barracuda 250GB SATA hard drives from Seagate and 1 SATA DVD-RW drive from Samsung. Initially, the DVD-RW drive was recognized by BIOS and I was able to set its boot priority. Now, after I setup the drives as RAID 5, I can no longer see my DVD-RW drive in BIOS and cannot set its priority to install the operating system. I have a Supermicro X7DBE motherboard and followed the instruction for setting up RAID 5 from the mobo's manual. I setup RAID 5 without any issues and all of the 3 SATA Seagate drives were added as a single volume. However, my SATA DVD-RW drive is gone. How can I get this drive to show again in BIOS, and is it possible because the DVD-RW is SATA, that it was somehow added to be part of the RAID? Your reply is appreciated.
Name: OtheHill Date: October 5, 2008 at 07:54:24 Pacific
Reply:
It may have something to do with which SATA port you have the DVD drive connected to.
Some motherboards have ports that can't be use for a boot drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: Lotos1 Date: October 5, 2008 at 17:31:49 Pacific
Reply:
No, actually I found out that the built-in Intel RAID controller does not support SATA DVD drives as bootable devices. I connected an IDE DVD drive, and it works fine.
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