iieeann

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.

iieeann

All right, Adaptec says no way, single hardisk must be initialized before able to use by 31205, and doing that will destroy all data on the hardisk.

Hardisk that has been initialized and configured as simple volumn will be able to work as single drive. Even after that dismantle the drive and install on other SATA controller, it will work normally; and later install back to 31205 will have no problem too. This sounds like 31205 has written something onto the drive during initialization.