new motherboard, won't see drives

[Irwin]

Hi. I bought a new ASUS P5GDC Deluxe motherboard, and have had no luck
getting it to see my drives, and I don't understand what is going on.
Tech support is unhelpful and the manuals are unhelpful or just frankly
wrong or misleading.

It has one primary IDE connector, two combo IDE-RAID connectors that
default to standard IDE, and S-ATA connectors also.

The motherboard is in a standard tower with the DVD/CD cage on top and
the hard drive cage at the bottom. Naturally, I wanted the DVD in the
DVD cage and two IDE hard drives in the hard drive cage. I expected
that both the DVD and one of the hard drives would be bootable.

What I have now, the only thing I can get to work, is both the DVD and
one IDE hard drive both up in the DVD cage, on the same IDE ribbon
connected to the primary IDE channel.

No other combination of cable, connector, BIOS, jumper, or drive would
see the drives at boot time nor allow a boot from both CD and hard
drive.

And now, I added an IDE hard drive to the IDE-RAID controller, and
Windows won't see it, though Maxblast and Ghost 2003 does. I just don't
get it. I could go on for a long time, since I have been working on
this for a while, but I think I will stop there as a first post.

Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? ASUS has not been
helpful.

Thanks,
Irwin

 

[Irwin]

Never mind. I think I have it. The IDE-RAID controllers are not really
IDE, they are treated like SCSI, and they require drivers to be
installed with F6 during windows setup. Thanks to Nick at ASUS for that
(after at least 5 calls to ASUS without anyone mentioning it), and I
also finally found something with google that I had missed. Still gotta
try it and see if it works.

Darn, why didn't I think of that? And why isn't there documentation
about such an important thing in their manual?

Oh well, it is the hardest lessons that we tend to remember.

IMF

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Are you new to this group, Irwin? Google appears to think not.

Never mind.

I think I have it.

Think again.

The IDE-RAID controllers are not really IDE,

Yes they are.

they are treated like SCSI,

Nope.
They only identify as subclass SCSI to PCI.
SATA will identify as subclass SATA to PCI.
Has nothing to do with whether you need to manually load drivers or not,
only with whether the OS has the drivers included with it or not.

and they require drivers to be installed with F6 during windows setup.

Just like with some newer MoBo chipsets that are newer than the OS
that you install.

Thanks to Nick at ASUS for that (after at least 5 calls to ASUS
without anyone mentioning it), and

I also finally found something with google that I had missed.

That takes some effort, given the sheer number of times that that answer
is given here.