PC-DL does not recognize CD-ROM

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Sergio Borrero

The Motherboard detects both CPU's, all of the memory, the floppy drive, and
the SATA drive connected to SATA 1. It does not identify the CD-ROM
connected to SEC_IDE1 using the 40-conductor IDE cable. I used a different
CD-ROM and used a different IDE cable with no luck. The system hangs trying
to detect ide drives (when I unplug the CD-ROM it does recognize the hard
drive). The On-chip serial ATA is set to Enhanced Mode.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Serge
 
The Motherboard detects both CPU's, all of the memory, the floppy drive, and
the SATA drive connected to SATA 1. It does not identify the CD-ROM
connected to SEC_IDE1 using the 40-conductor IDE cable. I used a different
CD-ROM and used a different IDE cable with no luck. The system hangs trying
to detect ide drives (when I unplug the CD-ROM it does recognize the hard
drive). The On-chip serial ATA is set to Enhanced Mode.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Serge
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Please list each item attached to each connector:

IDE 0 Master
IDE 0 Slave
IDE 1 Master
IDE 1 Slave
SATA 0
SATA 1
RAID SATA 0
RAID SATA 1
 
Please list each item attached to each connector:
IDE 0 Master
IDE 0 Slave
IDE 1 Master:Plextor CD-RW
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IDE 1 Slave
SATA 0:Maxtor 160GB
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SATA 1
RAID SATA 0
RAID SATA 1
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I replaced the plextor with a non-Plextor CD-ROM and it worked fine. This
motherboard seems to have an issue with the two Plextors that I tried.
Now I have a problem with Maxtor's MaxBlast 3.6 recognizing the SATA hard
drive connected to SATA 0. A WinME boot disk will recognize the HD via
Fdisk and consequently it can be formatted.
 
Sergio said:
I replaced the plextor with a non-Plextor CD-ROM and it worked fine. This
motherboard seems to have an issue with the two Plextors that I tried.
Now I have a problem with Maxtor's MaxBlast 3.6 recognizing the SATA hard
drive connected to SATA 0. A WinME boot disk will recognize the HD via
Fdisk and consequently it can be formatted.
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Hi,
Checked firmware for Plextor?
Tony
 
I replaced the plextor with a non-Plextor CD-ROM and it worked fine. This
motherboard seems to have an issue with the two Plextors that I tried.
Now I have a problem with Maxtor's MaxBlast 3.6 recognizing the SATA hard
drive connected to SATA 0. A WinME boot disk will recognize the HD via
Fdisk and consequently it can be formatted.
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Why are you running Max Blast, none of the current OS's require it to
see the full capacity of the drive. MB will cause a performance hit too.

As for the Plextors, do they have a CS jumper rather then Master /
Slave?
 
Why are you running Max Blast, none of the current OS's require it to
see the full capacity of the drive. MB will cause a performance hit too.
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With Maxblast one can partition and format in less than a minute.
As for the Plextors, do they have a CS jumper rather then Master /
Slave?
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They have CS, Master and Slave jumper settings. I tried Master/Single
setting using a 40-conductor IDE cable.
 
Um, but if you have to use a driver to see the drive you are loosing a
lot of performance.
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No extra driver needed. It partitions and formats in NTFS or FAT32 in
seconds.
 
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Sergio Borrero wrote:

|>>>Why are you running Max Blast, none of the current OS's require it to
|>>>see the full capacity of the drive. MB will cause a performance hit
|
| too.
|
|>>With Maxblast one can partition and format in less than a minute.
|>
|>Um, but if you have to use a driver to see the drive you are loosing a
|>lot of performance.
|
|
| No extra driver needed. It partitions and formats in NTFS or FAT32 in
| seconds.
|
|

Sergio, your missing the point, MaxBlast *is* a driver, it loads before
windows, and acts as a fake layer between your OS and your HD allowing
it to see the full capacity if it wasnt able to before (but new
machinines/OS can recognize 137Gb+ without it)


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Sergio, your missing the point, MaxBlast *is* a driver, it loads before
windows, and acts as a fake layer between your OS and your HD allowing
it to see the full capacity if it wasnt able to before (but new
machinines/OS can recognize 137Gb+ without it)
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Not necesarily. It does install a driver if the BIOS and/or the operating
system needs it. If not needed it will partition and format a hard drive
without installing any drivers. I've done it many times and it leaves the
hard drive ready for an OS installation.
I think that you are the one missing the point. MaxBlast is an installation
utility. See:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm
 
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