DriverPacks.net Forum - [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2007-02-06T13:11:02Z

I too am having nightmares with getting this driver working with our unattended installation of XP SP2. We created the unattended install with nLite and CMDOW, and a menu at the end to install all our apps, and until the advent of this nasty driver, it all worked perfectly. I tried the 5.5.0.1035 version of the mass storage driver in the install, without any luck, and even using it with the F6 option, it cant find the iaStor.sys file later in the install. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Garth

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-23T13:21:21Z

fanatf1 wrote:

rrrrr
not solved. It still not working for me
Partition in IDE mode, reboot set AHCI , insert UXPCD w/ latest DriverPacks BASE+DPMS.... and nothing.
Error - NO HDD PRESENT.
what happend

Try doing a manual F6 setup with just the intel drivers.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-23T10:32:39Z

rrrrr
not solved. It still not working for me
Partition in IDE mode, reboot set AHCI , insert UXPCD w/ latest DriverPacks BASE+DPMS.... and nothing.

Error - NO HDD PRESENT.

what happend

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-18T00:13:56Z

oops... and I'll be d..

sorry.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-17T13:36:44Z

fanatf1 wrote:

jtdoom wrote:
* when you use new harddrives, no problems.
the conditions we tried were indeed rather unique...
As i wrote in near topic: I use brand new Seagate 320 G + ASUS P5LD2 ICH7R.
I burn UXPCD w/ DP BASE+DP MS. Shot down PC. Connect ONLY my new HDD, set in BIOS mode AHCI.
And start installing WinXP.
AND there comes problem!!
In blue screen where i must partition my HDD i see a message: There are no HDD present bla bla bla.
In BIOS everything ok with HDD and then i set to Normal IDE - installation work perfect!!
This means with new Harddrives user have a problem.

Try installing in AHCI mode now that you have a working partition when you were in IDE mode.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-17T10:20:54Z

jtdoom wrote:

* when you use new harddrives, no problems.
the conditions we tried were indeed rather unique...

As i wrote in near topic: I use brand new Seagate 320 G + ASUS P5LD2 ICH7R.
I burn UXPCD w/ DP BASE+DP MS. Shot down PC. Connect ONLY my new HDD, set in BIOS mode AHCI.
And start installing WinXP.
AND there comes problem!!
In blue screen where i must partition my HDD i see a message: There are no HDD present bla bla bla.
In BIOS everything ok with HDD and then i set to Normal IDE - installation work perfect!!

This means with new Harddrives user have a problem.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-17T09:36:31Z

* when you use new harddrives, no problems.
* when you don't switch from array'ed drives to separates on ahci, no problem.
* and when you always use the DriverPacks Mass storage, there are no version differences.

the conditions we tried were indeed rather unique...

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-17T08:56:24Z

In conclusion:
When i need to install WXP (integrated DP MS) in AHCI mode (on i945P ICH7R).
I must first format and partition HDD in IDE mode, then switch in BIOS to AHCI and start installing UXP (integrated DP MS).

Is it right?

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-13T18:50:58Z

Hi Fragbert
Today I had to lowlevel the drive that was used with all these different modes and versions...
I must say, I never thought intel could get people in such a mess.
I also just read the ICH5 topic you ran

Thanks, I learned a ton TOO

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-12T20:50:28Z

Hi
Thanks, I''l mark the floppies I made...
If Version 6.x and 5.5 x and 5.00x cause a different EMBR to be written... yikes.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-12T17:52:19Z

Error solved! Very unique conditions to get this error after all!

The two drives in question that I tested *USED* to be part of a RAID 0 array using driver v5.5. Even though the array was deleted/cleared in the BIOS, when attempting to install on one of those particular SATA drives in AHCI mode, the lock up will occur. The error does NOT occur when using IDE mode, the error does NOT occur on a brand new drive, the error will ONLY occur if the two conditions are present; the SATA drive is in AHCI mode and the drive used to be part of an array in RAID mode. The error is fixed by paritioning the drive first in IDE mode and then switching back to AHCI to run your unattended setup.

What is very interesting is that the error will NOT occur if you use the same version of driver (in my case v5.5) to install in single AHCI mode that was used to install on the drive as part of an array in RAID mode!

So it's safe to say that Intel's fakeraid (ICHxR) leaves a lot of leftover mess on drives even though you "delete" the array in the SATA RAID BIOS setup.

Tested several times now, I can reproduce the error and fix it in my controlled environment.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-11T03:01:25Z

setup told me it had no access to the drive
it sees the combined size, while only half of the stripe is there, but it does see the drive...
I will abort, there is no sense in repartitioning this on wrong size.

your error looks different after all.
it does not see the drive at all, doesn't it?

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-11T02:26:17Z

Hi Fragbert

when you connect a RAID striped array to the ICH7R channels, and ICH7R is set to AHCI, and you boot to the hard disks... then you get an Error during Boot.
A disk Read Error occured,
press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart.

That is perfectly normal.
A user should always see that, even when BIOS is set to Silent or Quiet.
(OEM screen hiding POST data on screen)

the drives are ready to be blanked, so I could launch setup from DVD.
I already know what happened when both drives were there and booted to DVD.
(The unnatended automatically formats, and it saw the full size of the array, and setup would then loop to setup when it did its first reboot.)

so I'll disconnect just one of the stripe, set this to AHCI, load the DVD, and see what happens..

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-10T23:16:23Z

Well,
I was too optimistic.
changed setting to AHCI after windows got fully loaded, and it tries but fails to boot to windows...
changed it back, and I got the safe boot options screen.
(come to think of it, these single modes use a different driver, so this is understandable).

next is a striped RAID, then try a single drive out of the stripe.
Just found a twin to the 250 drive I ran in single mode. This one is probably fully loaded with data...
be patient, it will get tested tonite.

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot from ICH7R in AHCI mode

2006-10-10T22:06:21Z

interesting... Holmes would say.

the drive that had run while ICH7R was set to AHCI was hooked up to a SIL3132 controller on the 955 mobo

RVM+ base 610 DVD... setup
it loops in reboots to setup after formatting/copying... drive is seen, but on a different controller, and its layout somehow triggers this.

will shut this down, and connect this single drive to the ICH7R chip, in default mode (RAID)
edit; done that, and windows is loading, Finisher started running.
On Same chip, in single drive mode, RAID or AHCI settings have same layout.

will change setting to AHCI after windows is fully finished, and do not expect error.