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Raid Controller only sees one drive

Asked by blcomp in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hard Drives & Storage, Storage Technology

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Working on one of my home computers - current drive config:
C: - SATA drive connected to mobo on-board SATA controller
D: - SATA drive connected to Silicon Image 3112 Satalink RAID controller PCI card

I bought the SI card a few years ago with the intention of eventually creating a RAID 1 mirror set on the controller, which I finally did today.  I bought an identical drive to D: (same manufacturer/model: Maxtor 6V300F0) and connected it to the RAID card.  But the card's BIOS doesn't see it.  

I have tried the following:
- swapping SATA channels on controller card.  Original D: drive is seen on both channels and mounts successfully on both.
- connecting new drive to spare SATA port on mobo.  Drive comes up just fine; I was able to initialize the disk successfully.  Problem is that I can't set up hardware RAID in this config.
- updated Windows driver for RAID controller.

The one thing I haven't been able to get going is flashing the BIOS on the RAID card.  The command-line tool (SiFlashTool.exe) won't run correctly if the D: drive is mounted, and yet if I unplug it then the tool doesn't even see the controller!!   Unbelievably frustrating.

Any other ideas??  Next thing I can think of would be to swap the RAID card out, but I'm trying to minimize futher investment at this point, especially with a PCI interface card.

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