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Single SATA drive will not work natively on Adaptec 31205. Setting in bios must be done for the adapter to accept it, else it will display "No logical drives found", "Bios not installed!" error regardless of bootable or non bootable drive.

I set the drive to simple volumn in bios, but 31205 need to initialize the drive, and so all old data is gone. The drive is detected as Adaptec Array SCSI Disk in windows. Windows prompts to initialize and format the disk.

I install that drive back to onboard SATA controller, and it is detected as normal drive, and the new data is there. What has been done by 31205 can be read by SATA controller without problem, but why cant 31205 do the same??

For new drive there is no problem to throw on 31205, but how about drive with data?? is there a way to install old drive on 31205 without losing the data?

Thank you.