A7N8X - S-ATA and IDE - happy together?

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I have an A7N8X motherboard which I am very pleased with. It has a single
SATA drive. I want to install an IDE drive and be able to access the files
on it. I'm running windows 2k sp4. I've installed the IDE drive as a
secondary slave. When Windows 2000 boots it gives a blue screen of death
and complains about the hard drive.

I suspect that somehow the boot sector is conflicting with that of the SATA
drive.

Can I safely install this configuration? Again, I boot off the SATA drive
with no trouble, until the IDE is installed.
 
Mark Richards said:
I have an A7N8X motherboard which I am very pleased with. It has a single
SATA drive. I want to install an IDE drive and be able to access the files
on it. I'm running windows 2k sp4. I've installed the IDE drive as a
secondary slave. When Windows 2000 boots it gives a blue screen of death
and complains about the hard drive.

I suspect that somehow the boot sector is conflicting with that of the SATA
drive.

Can I safely install this configuration? Again, I boot off the SATA drive
with no trouble, until the IDE is installed.
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It is not the 'boot sector', that is conflicting, but the way that W2K
works. The same problem exists when using a SCSI adapter/drive, and then
trying to attach another IDE drive. Basically, W2K, will allways scan any
IDE device that is enabled in the motherboard BIOS (even if it is not set as
the boot device), and will 'assume' that this device is meant to be the boot
drive.
The solution, (if your BIOS supports it), is to set the IDE device on the
second channel, to 'none'. The W2K boot, then won't see the device, and
should work OK, but once W2K is loaded, the internal driver, doesn't pay any
attention to the CMOS settings, and the drive should be visible!.

Best Wishes
 
Within the Bios you also need to change the Boot order. Your SATA drives use
a RAID controller and therefore have RAID drivers, within the Bios you need
to ensure that the first device in boot order is SCSI (For your SATA
drives). Many people have had problems with putting IDE drives on with SATA
as well as DVDRW/CDRW drives etc. I have put a few posts on
www.nforcershq.com/forum regarding this. The solution appears to be, as well
as changing the bios for you to ensure that optical drives are put on the
master side of the IDE channels and any other additional drives on the Slave
side of the IDE channels. This has fixed many peoples problems.

I myself am running 2*200GB RAID0 7K250 drives (I back up to DLT so don't
need RAID1) alonf with 2 optical drives and a 120GB drive in a Lian-Li
removable unit. The only way I could get the system to recognise all devices
on my IDE channels was to put Optical drives as Master on primary and
secondary channels and the IDE drive as a slave.

HTH

Dom
 
D said:
Within the Bios you also need to change the Boot order. Your SATA drives use
a RAID controller and therefore have RAID drivers, within the Bios you need
to ensure that the first device in boot order is SCSI (For your SATA
drives). Many people have had problems with putting IDE drives on with SATA
as well as DVDRW/CDRW drives etc. I have put a few posts on
www.nforcershq.com/forum regarding this. The solution appears to be, as well
as changing the bios for you to ensure that optical drives are put on the
master side of the IDE channels and any other additional drives on the Slave
side of the IDE channels. This has fixed many peoples problems.

I myself am running 2*200GB RAID0 7K250 drives (I back up to DLT so don't
need RAID1) alonf with 2 optical drives and a 120GB drive in a Lian-Li
removable unit. The only way I could get the system to recognise all devices
on my IDE channels was to put Optical drives as Master on primary and
secondary channels and the IDE drive as a slave.

HTH

Dom
Click to expand...
I also had a lot of problems with 1 sata,cdrw, dvd-rom and ide hd. I
followed these tips, and voila! it worked out nice. I also got a faster
bootup, due to the fact that the bios only neds to detect my optical
drives :-) . So thx to mark and roger. Good work fellas.
 
D said:
Within the Bios you also need to change the Boot order. Your SATA drives use
a RAID controller and therefore have RAID drivers, within the Bios you need
to ensure that the first device in boot order is SCSI (For your SATA
drives). Many people have had problems with putting IDE drives on with SATA
as well as DVDRW/CDRW drives etc. I have put a few posts on
www.nforcershq.com/forum regarding this. The solution appears to be, as well
as changing the bios for you to ensure that optical drives are put on the
master side of the IDE channels and any other additional drives on the Slave
side of the IDE channels. This has fixed many peoples problems.

I myself am running 2*200GB RAID0 7K250 drives (I back up to DLT so don't
need RAID1) alonf with 2 optical drives and a 120GB drive in a Lian-Li
removable unit. The only way I could get the system to recognise all devices
on my IDE channels was to put Optical drives as Master on primary and
secondary channels and the IDE drive as a slave.

HTH

Dom
Click to expand...
I also had a lot of problems with 1 sata,cdrw, dvd-rom and ide hd. I
followed these tips, and voila! it worked out nice. I also got a faster
bootup, due to the fact that the bios only neds to detect my optical
drives :-) . So thx to d r tester roger. Good work fellas.
 
Glad to be of help :)

Dom


Atle said:
I also had a lot of problems with 1 sata,cdrw, dvd-rom and ide hd. I
followed these tips, and voila! it worked out nice. I also got a faster
bootup, due to the fact that the bios only neds to detect my optical
drives :-) . So thx to d r tester roger. Good work fellas.
Click to expand...
 
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