New DVD Burner


TBAGSHAKE 827 posts +16 votes =NOC= Administrator	I am having problems with some of my dvd's and I think I narrowed it down to my burner. I bought a new one and installed it but I have a semi problem here. On my motherboard, I have 6 sata ports (as you will see in a second). 4 are purple and 2 are red. I was told that the two red slots are raid slots and I was told if I don't know what they are (which I really don't) or don't know how to work them (which I really don't) don't mess with them. Well when I went to install the new dvd burner, only my 2 red slots are available. So I plugged it into one of them and tried to be off on my merry way. Well as usual nothing can be that easy for me. Short and sweet, doesn't work and I don't see it listed under devices and drivers. It has power and opens and closes with no problem. I also tried looking for drivers but liteon doesn't have any drivers for my model (liteon iHAS124-04). It was something cheap and a bunch of good reviews. So now my question is . . . is there something I can do to make this work? Can (if those really are raid slots) turn the raid into a normal sata slot so I can live a normal life? If not, can I move my hd's to raid slots without losing any of my information on my drives ( I have 2 sata drives and one ide ). If I do raid, what is raid and do the drives have to be the same size? Questions questions. As usual, any help would be appreciated. Info : my mobo is a MSI K9A2 Platinum Posted Jul 9, 11 · OP 0 votes 0 votes
OutlawNinja 1115 posts +29 votes =NOC= Administrator	You still have the one that doesn't work installed?? Just connect the lead that was connected to the now non operating burner to the new one. Unless I am missing something here. "Sniff a fkn unemployment line of Cocaine" ...Jayceon 'The Game' Taylor Posted Jul 9, 11 0 votes 0 votes
TBAGSHAKE 827 posts +16 votes =NOC= Administrator	Well the old one isn't really broken so I wanted to keep both in if that was a possibility which is why I ask about the raid ports Posted Jul 9, 11 · OP 0 votes 0 votes
Ball-Breaker 1215 posts +18 votes =NOC= Administrator	This worked for another guy on his MSI board like yours. All six of those ports are not all on the same controller. Make sure your extra raid controller in bios is enabled for the Promise controller under integrated peripherals???? The Promise may not support the burners. In fact MSI states that they support storage devices only Leave all 4 burners on the SB600 controller (the 4 that are right together) Put your drives on the Promise and set the bios to boot off the drives from the Promise controller if you can. You may need to enable the promise controller in bios under integrated peripherals enable extra raid controller. Then set the boot sequence to boot from the drive you want off the promise controller. Hopefully it will let you boot from the promise controller. Really should not matter what mode your in but since the burners are all on the SB600 then raid is not needed. If you use Raid/AHCI you will need the RaidAHCI driver for SB600 installed but since OS drive is on the Pormise you will not need it loaded at boot or need a reinstall for it. I didn't see any settings in the manual for the Promise controller so it may be raid only. If so you will need to load RAID/AHCI drivers for this before being able to boot from it if you haven't loaded them already. A repair install may be the easiest way to go about this if the drivers have a floppy install file. If drivers are already installed then you may need to enter the config menu for the controller and set the drives up for them to be recognized. It should give you an option to enter the Promise controller setup if it is enabled. If there is no floppy install file just unhook the burners for now and put the drive on the SB600 and when you get into windows install the driver for the promise controller. Then you should be able to just switch the drive to the promise controller. Hope it doesn't confuse you too much. AHCI and RAID are the same drivers sometimes, Raid is/uses AHCI but AHCI is not always raid. AHCI enables the NCQ on hard drives and has other enhancements. Not necessarily required though. Google and Wikipedia are your friend Posted Jul 9, 11 0 votes 0 votes

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