IDE Drives Don't Mount

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Odd thing happening lately. I have a RAID level 0 SATA setup
(awesome!) and also use 2 IDE drives on the IDE controllers. Worked
very well. Lately I've been booting up and the IDE drives cannot be
found. The only way to get them to mount and be seen is to turn all
the power off (including power supply), leave it off for a minute,
then boot up again. Chances are that it will likely boot up with the
drives being seen. Anyone see this strange behavior before?

My setup:

A7N8X-E Deluxe (great board!)
1.8GHz AMD
1.5 GB RAM
Two 250 GB Maxtor SATA
Two IBM Deskstar 60GB on IDE chain
ATI AIW 128 Video
FIrewire controller
 
fbionyourtail said:
Odd thing happening lately. I have a RAID level 0 SATA setup
(awesome!) and also use 2 IDE drives on the IDE controllers. Worked
very well. Lately I've been booting up and the IDE drives cannot be
found. The only way to get them to mount and be seen is to turn all
the power off (including power supply), leave it off for a minute,
then boot up again. Chances are that it will likely boot up with the
drives being seen. Anyone see this strange behavior before?

My setup:

A7N8X-E Deluxe (great board!)
1.8GHz AMD
1.5 GB RAM
Two 250 GB Maxtor SATA
Two IBM Deskstar 60GB on IDE chain
ATI AIW 128 Video
FIrewire controller
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I have a similar set-up, but only a single IDE drive. Which IDE controllers
are you using? I found the Nvidia ones a bit flakey, and use the standard MS
ones instead.

It might worth trying, as it only takes a few minutes to do so.
 
Personnally with a similar hd setup I've not had a problem with Nvidia
drivers, allthough my sys runs 24/7 and I only reboot if I get a problem,
which is rarely.
I'm assuming you dont really mean 'mount' the drives as this is a completely
different proccess than the std. setup.
Check cables are securely connected, is yr psu up to it?
I trust you havent used winupdate for drivers?
 
Cables are secure. Everything was fine until recently and I'm
wondering if this is a result of software, corruption, etc. Can't
understand it. This is able to be duplicated. Startup and you don't
see the IDE drives. Shut down the PC, turn off all power to the PC,
startup again, and all appears normal. Thanks.
 
Check your Power Supply, sounds like your voltage rails. Had a similar prob
(drive seen intermittently) with one recently until I plugged in two
cd-roms, Then bang, no more voltage to any of the drives although the board
was still powered. New 400w p/s fixed this.
 
Interesting.... I think there might be a 400W Antec in there but in
the event there isn't.... will check again. Hate this problem and it
just happened out of the blue. Thanks...
 
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