aye29 Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 I have a IDE BenQ DW1620 drive with an IDE to SATA adapter connected to one of the Sil3114 SATA ports on my motherboard but I can't see the drive in Windows. The drive isnt listed in Disk Management under Computer Manager either. I have the Sil3114 set to SATA in BIOS and I've tried using both the SATARAI5 Driver 1.3.0.9 and also the Windows IDE driver 1.2.0.5 for the Sil3114 and neither work. I don't understand why it doesn't work. Both the Silicon Image support page and the documentation that came with the adapter (which apparently uses the Sil3611 chip) state that they support DVD drives. I haven't tried connecting it to one of the nForce4 SATAII ports because they are all occupied at the moment. I'm using the adapter becuse I wanted to get rid of all the IDE cables in my case. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. edit: This is the first time I'm using the 3114 SATA ports so I don't if they would work with regular SATA HDD's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 The SIL controller does work with single drives but I'm not real confident about that SATA/PATA adapter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorrento Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 I have tried the SATA to PATA adapter successfully, but with Hard Drives... I think they are not compatible with optical units. Maybe its the same the other way around Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aye29 Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 I bought two adapters and one of them is being used with an IDE hard drive connected to one of the SATAII ports and its working fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kobalt Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 Remember, the adapter needs power to the adapter itself via 3.5" floppy power, AND the drive itself needs to be powered via normal 4 pin molex connector. I have done this before with a plextor optical drive, and it works fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aye29 Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 Both the drive and the adapter are supplied with power. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kobalt Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 You make sure the drive is set for MASTER? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNick Posted July 14, 2006 Posted July 14, 2006 I never thought about doing this!!! I will try it when I get home from work and let you guys know Edit- No go with mine. bios wont even detect them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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