February 13, 201313 yr I installed a Promise Technology TX4 300 sata card sometime ago and don't remember what l did to get it working properly. I just reinstalled it in another machine and the drive plugged into the card is not recognized. Do I need to load the drivers for the card, and if this is so how do I do this? As I remember it was a plug and pay process. I don't know if it makes any difference, but the machine I am discussing, has two storage drives connected as master/slave on the only pata port available, and the sata parity drive connected to the TtX4 card. The parity drive was origanally connected to the onboard sata port, but operation was intermittant. I'm trying to decide if the problem is the drive or the mb.
February 14, 201313 yr This is an old card, PCI I believe. Old PCI cards can be temperamental, as to their slot. Try moving the card to another PCI slot. The drivers are automatically loaded if the card is recognized, and your syslog will show that. Have you checked the syslog? Zip and attach it if you aren't sure.
February 14, 201313 yr Author RobJ, thanks for the help. I never considered looking at the system log, but when I did it showed the TX4 was recognized. I'm pretty sure now the hard drive is failing. Thanks to you and thanks to the forum.
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