Hi,
The A8V uses two different raid controllers. One is the promise controller,
the other is from VIA. Have you downloaded Asus' driver for that sata drive
set yet? You will need it in order for Vista to see any sata drive on that
set of connectors.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"Scuba" <Scuba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have just loaded vista on an AMD Anthlon 64 FX-55 with 2 QB of ram and an
> A8V Deluxe motherboard.
>
> Vista recognizes my boot drive and my two of my drives that are raid'd.
> There is one drive that I used for back-up and was reconized with no
> issues
> under XP.
>
> I went and downloaded the most current drivers from Promise...it is a
> promise fasttrac 378.
>
> I loaded from a floppy during installation.
>
> During boot-up I can see where all drives are recognized but when I get to
> Vista, The one drive can not be seen from the "My computer" window.
>
> Under the hardware devices , storage controllers, I have:
>
> Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
> VIA VT8237 RAID Controller
> Windows Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device
> WinXP Promise FastTrac 378 Controller
>
> At a loss on this one.