Hitachi and mode B problems

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flubba86

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Dec 8, 2002
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Heya,

Appologies if there is a thread about this issue already, but I could not find it by searching.

I tried flashing my drive today and it didn't go to well. I tried booting slax 2.0 alpha and it says it puts the drive in mode b, but when I reboot the PC it doesn't find my OS anymore, for some reason it doesn't want to boot of the HDD. So I tried slax 2.1 and it sticks at "spinning up drive", I can't eject the drive, neither could I eject it with 2.0 alpha. I could not get any of the signs of mode b to show. :-/

My SATA card is SiL 3112 based, could it somehow be configured in some stupid RAID-mode? I looked in the cards manual and there is no way to change it, there's supposed to be a menu but's not available for some reason, and the only thing the manual says the menu can do is create and destroy RAID-arrays.

The hitachi drive is a 47DJ one. I'm guessing it's something with the SATA-card and that I need to either get another one or one of the connectivity kits. Which of the connectivity kits are the better one?
 
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flubba86

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Dec 8, 2002
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I bought the Xecuter Connectivity Kit and it gave me the same problem, somehow the SATA controller card takes over and prevents the HDD from booting. I'm not sure what's up, I ended up installing Windows on my main workstation and used that. Worked like a charm.
 
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darkhorse

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Dec 9, 2002
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Yea I think your best bet is to find a friend who has onboard sata and try theirs.

Also I think the only reason the sata controller will be in a raid configuration is if you have more than one hard drive.. Do you?
 
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Ormuzd

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Dec 8, 2002
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Make sure your drivers on your SATA card is updated... mine would get get stuck at the loading bar until I updated the drivers.
 
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